Charlize Theron: Women in industry need to keep using our voices and platforms

- Advertisement -

Charlize Theron says women in the entertainment industry need to “push each other to keep using our voices and platforms for something greater than ourselves”.

The Hollywood actress was presented with the Sherry Lansing leadership award at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event on Wednesday.

Theron said she viewed the accolade “less as a mark of accomplishment, but more as a challenge to keep doing the work” and urged other women to “keep each other accountable”.

She was presented with the award by her friend, comedian and actor Seth Rogen.

In her acceptance speech she told attendees that leadership “is not a one-person game, especially for women” and that a sense of community was needed.

“I’m looking out and I see an entire room of some of the most powerful women in the world who all showed up this morning to help make a bit of a change. You know it means something when this many women agree to a red carpet in full glam at 8am on a Wednesday,” she said.

THR’s Women in Entertainment Gala
Theron was presented with the Sherry Lansing leadership award at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment event on Wednesday (Jordan Strauss/AP)

She added: “I guess all of this is to say, leadership is not a one-person game, especially for women.

“We need community, not just to build one another up, but to help pass the baton to the next generation of great women who will undoubtedly be up here one day, telling us how they solved the climate crisis or how they became the first (female) American president.

THR’s Women in Entertainment Gala
US actress Issa Rae was recognised with the Equity in Entertainment Award (Jordan Strauss/AP)

Theron added that as well as her successful acting and producing career, she also finds great joy in her charitable work with her foundation, the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP).

“I take this leadership award less as a mark of accomplishment, but more as a challenge to keep doing the work,” she said.

THR’s Women in Entertainment Gala
Other famous female faces at the event on Wednesday included Margot Robbie (Jordan Strauss/AP)

US actress Issa Rae was recognised with the Equity in Entertainment Award, given to an individual who amplifies the voices of under-represented communities in the entertainment industry.

The Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment event took place at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel on Wednesday night.

THR’s Women in Entertainment Gala
Brooklyn Beckham, left, and Nicola Peltz Beckham arrive at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Gala (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Brooklyn Beckham was also pictured at the event, accompanying his wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham.

- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -

Latest Stories

- Advertisement -

UK News

- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -

Read the latest free supplements

Read the Town Crier, Le Rocher and a whole host of other subjects like mortgage advice, business, cycling, travel and property.