Charlize Theron bares her body and her past for the film “The Burning Plain”.

Her character, Sylvia is not only emotionally naked, but physically as well. Theron says nudity in films does not bother her but she isn’t exactly an exhibitionist either.

“I’m not some exhibitionist. I think people think I just love walking around naked,” she says. “When you start making it about yourself, you stand in the way of doing your job. I have to sit in an editing room with (director) Guillermo Arriaga and a bunch of execs, and if I had to sit there and think about myself and these men watching me, I think that would make me insecure. I’m just like every other girl out there. I would cringe.”

Now that she is a producer, Theron is more worried about the integrity of a project, not her own self representation.

“There was a time in my life where I understood actors who said they don’t like watching themselves,” she says. “But when I made the mental switch that I was not watching myself and watching an actual character, that was the day I actually could look at things from a distance.”

She has also personally struggled with topics that the film deals with. When she was a teenage girl her father attacked her mother who shot him in self defense. She has had a horrible outlook of her parents for quite some time.

“I looked at my parents and I was so judgmental, and you don’t understand the struggles of what it is to be in a marriage and be committed and raise children and to be part of a family,” Theron says. “Their marriage wasn’t great. As a child, you see things very differently, and then I got older and I went, ‘Wow, that’s amazing.’ You start going out with a couple of boys, and some of them aren’t so nice. There’s a lot more that plays into this whole relationship thing than you think.” (Theron’s longtime partner is actor Stuart Townsend.)