Women film execs

Many talented women in film such as Charlize Theron and Natalie Portman are finding more creative fulfillment as executives and producers, rather than waiting for better acting roles.

But what sorts of challenges do women face when changing or expanding their career choices?

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron was actively involved as a producer of her recent film Sleepwalking, as she was for her acclaimed film Monster.

She admires her mother as a role model, and for her individuality: “It was the greatest thing she has given me. I don’t think she knows that. I don’t even think she set out to teach me that. That’s just how she lived her life and what she encouraged me to do. She was a great mother but at the same time she was very much an individual. She ran a business.

I want to be like that

“I always say to my friends who are so torn between having a job and leaving kids behind to go to work that their kids will thank them one day. That will be the thing that will inspire them, because I remember watching my mom put her suit and high heels on and go into a board meeting with eight guys.

“She was running the show and I was like, I want to be like that. She always encouraged me to be an individual, to have my own philosophy.”

Continued in my article She Is Running The Show.
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Charlize Theron, women and ambition, women in film, women in management

  03.22.08   By Douglas Eby   |  
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