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Live in Los Angeles on March 12, 2015Kevin Winter—Getty Images by [Tim Nudd / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Tim Nudd / People Contributor May 7, 2015 6:36 AM UTC Just a few months after [Sean Penn](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:SeanPenn,00.html) referred to [Charlize Theron](http://www.people.com/people/charlize%5Ftheron) as [“the love of my life”](http://www.people.com/article/sean-penn-charlize-theron-love-cesars), she has said the same of him – in the context of the challenges they faced making a movie together. Penn, 54, directed Theron, 39, in the upcoming film _The Last Face_. And she tells British [_Elle_](http://www.elleuk.com/now-trending/charlize-theron-elle-cover-june-2015)‘s June issue that in many ways it was a trying time. “Putting aside that he’s my partner, he’s the love of my life; for the first time, I felt that my work was really bleeding into my life, and that made it hard,” she says. “There were moments where I was incredibly unfair to him. And moments where I felt like … he was incredibly unfair to me. But it makes you realize that no matter how complicated it gets, the priority is the relationship.” The Oscar winners have been [dating for more than a year](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20771498,00.html), and Theron recently told [_Esquire_](http://www.people.com/article/charlize-theron-sean-penn-marriage-possibility-esquire-may-cover-story) that she felt like a “very, very lucky girl,” adding, “I think that for both of us there was never a moment where we thought that this – what we have today – would ever even be a possibility.” This winter, when a reporter from France’s [_Le Parisien_](http://www.people.com/article/sean-penn-charlize-theron-love-cesars) asked Penn about his “girlfriend,” the actor interjected: “No, no, excuse me, Charlize is not my girlfriend. She’s the love of my life.” In the _Elle_ interview, Theron also talks about negotiating equal pay in Hollywood, having made headlines doing so this winter for her role in the _Snow White and the Huntsman_ sequel. “I have to give them credit because once I asked, they said yes. They did not fight it,” she says of the studio. “And maybe that’s the message – that we just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn’t mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you’re doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.” [_This article originally appeared on PEOPLE.com_](http://www.people.com/article/charlize-theron-sean-penn-love-of-my-life) Charlize Theron Calls Sean Penn the ‘Love of My Life’ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3849869/charlize-theron-sean-penn-oscar-love-wedding-married-divorce-movie-snow-white/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3849869/charlize-theron-sean-penn-oscar-love-wedding-married-divorce-movie-snow-white/"},"headline":"Charlize Theron Calls Sean Penn the 'Love of My Life'","datePublished":"2015-05-07T06:36:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:59:57.859Z","description":"Just a few months after Sean Penn referred to Charlize Theron as \"the love of my life\", she has said the same of him –...","url":"https://time.com/3849869/charlize-theron-sean-penn-oscar-love-wedding-married-divorce-movie-snow-white/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt517985d0102bd3f8/6987eebbcd684861a809dec4/466021552.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tim Nudd / People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt517985d0102bd3f8/6987eebbcd684861a809dec4/466021552.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Open Road Films' \"The Gunman\" - Red Carpet","caption":"Premiere Of Open Road Films' \"The Gunman\" - Red Carpet","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3849869/charlize-theron-sean-penn-oscar-love-wedding-married-divorce-movie-snow-white/","name":"Charlize Theron Calls Sean Penn the 'Love of My Life'"}}]}] ```