'It's never enough': Charlize Theron wants a more gender-fair Hollywood

Actress Kiki Layne director Gina Prince-Bythewood and actress/producer Charlize Theron on the set of 'The Old Guard'. Photo: Aimee Spinks/Netflix

As a sought-after actress and producer, Charlize Theron knows she is in a unique position to choose who she wants to work with.

In these professional capacities, and her personal role as a mother to two African American daughters, Theron wants to tell as many diverse and authentic stories as she can on the big screen. And some of those stories, she says, need to be told by women and they should be about women.