I Turned Charlize Into the Monster ; How Star Learned Secrets of Lesbian Serial Killer

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IT'S the incredible role which won Charlize Theron an Oscar. The star owes her dramatic transformation from sweet-faced starlet into America's first female serial killer to one woman.

Charlize enlisted the help of Dawn Botkins, the best friend of bisexual prostitute Aileen Wuornos, to prepare for the film Monster, which opened in the UK on Friday. She was so determined to get the character right that she even wore one of the killer's bras to see how much weight she had to gain to play the chunky murderer.

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I Turned Charlize Into the Monster ; How Star Learned Secrets of Lesbian Serial Killer

The star swapped her Los Angeles mansion to stay in Dawn's humble two-bedroom home in Michigan to learn all she could about Wuornos, who was executed in 2002 for the murder of seven men.

Charlize, 28, spent three days poring over the thousands of letters which Wuornos and Dawn exchanged during the 10 years the killer spent on Death Row. She also thumbed through the drawings Wuornos created in ...

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