Charlize Theron hosted the fifth annual Block Celebration for her Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Challenge on Saturday evening, the place she obtained actual about how, in 2025, “the world feels prefer it’s burning.”
Theron took the stage to kick off the occasion — which raises funds to assist CTAOP help the well being and security of youth in her native South Africa — on the Common Studios backlot, deadpanning, “I feel we could be the one individuals who didn’t get an invitation to the Bezos wedding ceremony. However that’s OK as a result of they suck and we’re cool.”
She went on to thank attendees for “taking the time to be part of this, particularly when the world feels prefer it’s burning as a result of it’s. Right here in Los Angeles, within the U.S. and throughout the globe, we’re shifting backwards quick. Immigration coverage has destroyed the lives of households, not criminals; girls’s rights have gotten much less and fewer day by day; queer and trans lives are more and more being erased; and gender-based violence is on the rise. This isn’t simply coverage, it’s private.” As the group clapped, she added, “Yeah, fuck them.”
Theron immigrated to the U.S. as a teen whereas pursuing a profession in Hollywood. She was deported at 19 for overstaying her work visa; she was later allowed to return and have become a U.S. citizen in 2007. The star additionally known as out “overseas help cuts [that] have introduced HIV and AIDS applications in my residence nation of South Africa to an absolute standstill. All of this isn’t simply detrimental, it’s harmful; folks will lose their lives — many have already, sadly, and at a daunting fee. It’s completely heartbreaking to see this type of pointless struggling.”
“However what we additionally see, what we can’t miss, is the resistance. There’s hope. There’s energy in all of us standing up, organizing, protesting, voting, and caring for one another, and refusing to simply accept that that is the brand new regular,” she continued. “That spirit of resistance, justice and look after one another, that’s the spirit that drives the work at CTAOP. And though our focus is on the youth in Southern Africa, what we’re actually speaking about right here tonight is that every one lives must be valued. Everybody ought to have the proper to be wholesome and secure and may have the ability to be seen.”
Theron’s Previous Guard 2 costars KiKi Layne, Henry Golding and Marwan Kenzari had been additionally in attendance on the occasion, as Theron and Layne took half in a dwell model of Scorching Ones with host Sean Evans and one highest bidder following the evening’s fundraising public sale. Reneé Rapp stopped by to carry out two songs, 2023’s “Tummy Hurts” and her new single “Mad.”
CTAOP was based in 2007, and during the last 18 years. It has reached over 4.5 million youth and has given almost $15 million to organizations in South Africa.