, "KatWoman" wrote:
>
>One time on a job we were shooting with Charlize Theron, we knew she was
>from SA.
>We stayed a week in a remote location no TV or other stuff to do at night
>so we were drinking and
> playing pictionary (a word game) and a word came up for her to do and
she
>said>> I don't know this word in English
>very funny, I said they speak English in SA, I thought she was joking
and
>trying to get an easier word
>
>then she said>>> no really I don't, my native language is Afrikaans
>it was hard to believe because she has such command of her American
accents
>then she demonstrated her language and we all laughed
>she said she learned it from watching Love Boat re-runs as a child
>
>she also said on that trip that she was going to quit modeling and go for
>film work
>jump 10 years
>and she now has an Academy award to show for learning all that American
>dialect
>
Charlize Theron was born and grew up in Benoni on the East Rand; this
is east of (but part of) Johannesburg, which is the biggest city in
Africa.
Contrary to what you said about her accent, I read once about a Film
Director who chose her for a specific roll, simply because he loved
the Afrikaans accent.
Pictionary - we have a word game called 'scrabble'. More or less the
same, I assume.
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