As The Addams Family embraces their differences, Charlize Theron and Oscar Isaac talk about not fitting in

Record ID: 1435977

  • Title: As The Addams Family embraces their differences, Charlize Theron and Oscar Isaac talk about not fitting in
  • Date: 9th October 2019
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (RECENT - SEPTEMBER 24, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTRESS, CHARLIZE THERON, SAYING: "Yeah I mean I think at the core there's real heart here. This family, they're all incredibly strange and in their strangeness, they are just so... You just tap into them emotionally in a way that I think is incredibly moving."
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 2019 16:05
  • Keywords: The Addams Family Charlize Theron Oscar Isaac culture immigration
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED FILM LOCATIONS
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA006B0DNAZ1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky. The Addams Family is back.
    In the family's first animated film, Oscar Isaac voices Gomez Addams and Charlize Theron voices Morticia Addams. Bette Midler and Snoop Dogg also join the family.
    The film follows the Addams family as they move from the old country to New Jersey and how the hysterical culture clash that follows is often met with a tender family moments.
    First introduced to U.S. audiences in 1938 as a cartoon in the New Yorker, Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley and Lurch have appeared in several television series and films over the decades.
    Charlize Theron said living in a place that does not embrace other people's differences is still relevant after 80 years.
    "You'd want to think that we've kind of overcome these issues that I think this family really represents, which is yes they're not normal they don't look like every other family out there and that's the beauty of them."
    Theron and Isaac both admitted feelings of not fitting in when they immigrated to the U.S.
    Isaac said, "As an immigrant who came from Guatemala at a very young age and moved all around the country, never stayed in one place longer than a couple of years until I got down to Florida. And then always feeling generally like an outsider. So, it's definitely something that I could relate to."
    Theron spoke of arriving in the U.S. just as apartheid was ending in South Africa. "There was just a lot of anger towards, and rightfully so, white South Africans and I felt that coming out here. And it was good for me to understand how the world felt about what was going on in my country. But you know as a 17-year-old it was frightening for sure."
    At its heart, The Addams Family continues to use dark humor to challenge ideas of what is normal.
    "You just tap into them emotionally in a way that I think is incredibly moving," added Theron.
    The Addams Family opens in the U.S. and around the world on October 11.
    (Production: Angela Moore, Alicia Powell)
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