A better example is the 2007 film “In the Valley of Elah,” in which she portrays a no-nonsense police detective. Her hair is brown (Ms. Theron’s natural color, as it happens, not the blinding platinum that has become her trademark) and pulled back, she wears little or no makeup, and it’s a minute or two before you realize, Oh, that’s her.
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