Theron: 'Movie fans are obsessed with fluff'

Charlize Theron has accused today's movie fans of being obsessed with "fluff".

The 32-year-old is disappointed that latest outing In The Valley of Elah did not perform as well as hoped at the box office.

She said she is frustrated that more films are not being written with strong roles for women, such as 2003's Monster, for which she won an Oscar, and 2005's North Country, in which she played an iron mine worker who sues her employers for sexual harassment.

She is quoted as saying: "I asked Michael Seitzman, who wrote North Country, 'Why don't you write these kind of stories more; these roles for women?' "He said, 'There isn't the demand for it.'

"It's not necessarily Hollywood's fault. People don't go to see these movies. I think it's a bigger problem. We've become completely fluff-obsessed."