While hosting a screening of Jurassic World: Dominion to benefit The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP), which invests in African youth to help them stay safe from HIV/AIDS
"You know, they reached out to me and it all kind of happened pretty fast,” Theron says, explaining that she “felt so invited into the creative process and what this can be.”
Meanwhile, Theron is also proud of the work that her organization has been doing since it was first founded in 2007.
Not only do fans get to look forward to how she shakes things up for the MCU, they will get to see her reprise her role as Cipher, a criminal mastermind and cyberterrorist in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
“Clea is one of Dr. Strange’s most famous counterparts in the comics,” he continued, explaining that she, “in a lot of ways, is equal as a sorcerer and a ‘will they, won’t they’ love interest throughout the ages and she’s Dormammu’s niece.”
You know, they reached out to me and it all kind of happened pretty fast,” Theron says, explaining that she “felt so invited into the creative process and what this can be.
In the sequel, Clea appears at the end of the film to recruit Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to help her deal with an “incursion” in the multiverse.
Those guys just pull out all the stops. It’s, like, incredible,” Theron says of the franchise led by Vin Diesel. “I think it speaks volumes to what they’ve built over 20 years and that’s something to be very proud of.”
It’s actually our 15-year anniversary, which is shocking,” she says, explaining that the screening of the latest Jurassic World sequel, which is now in theaters, is a “special” moment.
We started out as more specifically focused on HIV/AIDS and the prevention of that and kind of trying to fill a gap that really wasn’t served in that world,” Theron says, before noting no one was investing in young people across Africa.