Charlize Theron lost out on Showgirls role to Elizabeth Berkley

Charlize Theron is secretly glad she missed out on the lead role in Showgirls, because the movie was hammered by the critics.
The role of Nomi Malone in the 1995 Paul Vorhoeven film went to Elizabeth Berkley after the Monster star fought hard for the part, convinced it would give her fledgling Hollywood career a huge boost.
Now, she’s glad the role went to someone else because the film was panned and it allowed her to go off and make 2 Days in the Valley, her big breakthrough.
“The cookie crumbled a certain way,” she told Watch What Happens Live! on Monday (24Jul17). “You have to understand at the time Paul Verhoeven had just discovered Sharon Stone and he was the director. You kind of go with the filmmaker.
“The other thing too was it was my second audition and I had never gone to an acting school or anything like that, so I was like, ‘If this is me paying my dues, I’ll f**king take it. I’m not expecting things to be handed to me on a silver platter’. I was ready to work my way up.”