Charlize Theron scolds French TV host for kissing female interpreter

Ouch. Charlize Theron let a TV presenter have it mid-interview after he planted a cringeworthy kiss on another woman without her permission.

Charlize Theron has called out a French TV presenter live on air after he kissed her female interpreter without the woman’s permission.

The awkward moment came as Theron and Long Shot co-star Seth Rogen appeared on French chat show Touche pas à mon poste (or, It’s Only TV).

Approaching Rogen and Theron, TV presenter Cyril Hanouna appeared to surprise the pair’s French interpreter by leaning in to plant a big kiss on her cheek:

Theron watched on for the slightly uncomfortable kiss.

The smooch also seemed to surprise Theron and Rogen.

“Oh, wow. That was … maybe ask, next time?” Theron told the host, fixing him with a steely gaze:

“Maybe ask, next time?”

Hanouna then reportedly asked the interpreter if she had enjoyed and was “titillated” by the kiss. That question was posed in French, so appeared to happen without Theron or Rogen’s awareness of what was oing on.

That exchange was in French, so Theron and Rogen seemingly were not aware that he was making light of the issue either.

Social media has been divided about Theron’s actions — some thanking her for standing up for the woman, others arguing that a kiss on the cheek (wanted or not) is a common French custom. Others have pointed out that this isn’t the first time a French TV host has faced criticism for unwanted physical advances:

Being an interpreter and a woman, I really appreciate what Charlize Theron (@CharlizeAfrica) said when the TV host kissed her interpreter out of the blue. 👏https://t.co/NrKqAEuwLK#1nt

— Alessandra Vita (@AVInterpreter) April 26, 2019

Welcome in France, @CharlizeAfrica , the country where an entertainment program presenter can kiss any of his fanzouz without asking before, and no one beats an eye.

— Le_Gertrude (@Le_Gertrude) April 24, 2019

Hi @CharlizeAfrica
Just so you know, in this show, they are used not to ask before kissing.
And when they do and people refuses, they kiss anyway.
" VIDEO - Jean Michel Maire gets out of control and kisses the breasts of a woman that refused his kiss [on the cheek] " pic.twitter.com/gmBhbgTLuO

— Maître Crayon (@Maitre_Crayon) April 24, 2019

@CharlizeAfrica How precious is the world getting where a French presenter can't even give a kiss on the cheek to an interpreter. Please don't be do precious Charlize.

— Moni (@Moni10350900) April 26, 2019

@CharlizeAfrica Thank you for your words front to the journalist yesterday and his stupid forced kiss✨💫

— ModeKDActivé (@Herev89) April 25, 2019

@CharlizeAfrica a kiss on the cheek is not a sexual agression in our country. Could you please stop acting like your culture is the only one valid. That’s kind of Racist. #TPMP

— Dibat MC (@BatDi) April 25, 2019

Just a little information since your participation in a French TV show :
Miss Charlize THeron, in France a kiss on the cheek is not a sexual assault.
We are not a country of puritanism, it's a tradition between us, totally friendly, without any malicious thought.

— Cyril Mariau (@MariauCyril) April 24, 2019

Theron, 43, made headlines last week when she revealed in a new interview that her seven-year-old child Jackson identifies as a girl.

The Academy Award-winner said Jackson was born a male but revealed to her four years ago that she was actually a girl.

“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” the Atomic Blonde star told The Daily Mail.

“Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’

“So there you go. I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive.

“They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.”

Theron adopted Jackson in 2012 and her second daughter, August, in 2015.

Theron and Seth Rogen in their new film Long Shot. Picture: AP

Originally published as Charlize Theron scolds French TV host for kissing female interpreter