Clip From Young Adult Starring Charlize Theron as a Teen Lit Author

Posted on December 12, 2011

Charlize Theron stars in the new Diablo Cody film, Young Adult. Charlize plays the author of a once popular young adult series who heads back to her hometown to reunite with her high school boyfriend. It's a dark comedy in which Charlize's character, Mavis Gary, is "beautiful on the outside, but ugly on the inside" according to Diabo Cody. In this clip, Mavis finds out that her book series isn't selling as well as it once was. She tries to sign some stock for the store, but the clerk really wishes she wouldn't. Take a look: