Charlize Theron is ready to do (acting) jobs Americans won't do. “You’re stuck with me now,” the former South African turned American joked about recently becoming a legal citizen of the United States. "Well, I’ve always wanted to be a citizen they just didn’t want to take me."
As for the hoops she had to jump through to get citizenship, she explained to David Letterman, "It’s quite a process you have to work hard, you know, study up. Then finally I was approved and you have to go in and do an interview. You have to know your stuff.”
What kind of stuff?
When asked what kind of questions she got on the citizenship test, Charlize says: “It really is what you should know and it’s good that they do it. You gotta know your senators, how the government works ..."
“- Nobody knows how the government works, for God’s sake!” Letterman replied - speaking for all Americans.
The Oscar winning actress said she “did incredibly well after studying really hard" but was nearly stumped by the trick question at the end of the test, the one where you are asked write the simple sentence, ‘It’s a sunny day.’
“It’s one of those weird feelings when you completely doubt yourself,” she said, “and you’re like ‘does sunny have a double n?’”
