Charlize Theron relates to 'Dark Places' role due to personal 'traumatic' experience
Charlize Theron reveals her traumatic childhood experiences helped her to relate to 'Dark Places' character.
Charlize Theron reveals that she "can relate" to her upcoming movie Dark Places character, since she witnessed a "very traumatic experience" as a child.
In a recent interview, the 39-year old actress, relating it to her character 'Libby Day', who at the age of eight witnesses the horrific murder of her mother and sisters, said that she too experienced a "very unfortunate" incident, when she was only 15, E! Online reported.
The Monster star, whose mother Gerda had shot her drunken father in self-defense after he fired his gun in Theron's bedroom, said that the incident has"formed" her but it didn't "rule" her life. No charges were filed against her mother. Theron also said that she would have done the same, is her child had been in a similar situation.
The Snow White star has even convinced her boyfriend Sean Penn to auction his collection of 65 guns in 2014.