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Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron has seen The Hills and she doesn’t understand why it’s so popular.

“I realized that this f—ing show is huge,” Theron told MTV News Monday while promoting Battle in Seattle. “Now I’m going to ask you a question: Why?

“Why is it so big?” she asked. “It’s about nothing! This is a free country. Freedom of speech! You can tell me right now to my face that Reindeer Games was a piece of sh–. That’s totally fine.

“But The Hills is about nothing,” she continued. “I think the girls are beautiful and when they cry their mascara runs and that’s real, but I don’t get it! [Pause.] I am a nana. I’ll just take it. I am a nana. Maybe I need to watch the shows some more.”

Theron, 33, said she watched a couple of episodes in different languages because she was on a world tour.

In March, Theron was bewildered when asked by MTV about The Hills.

“I do not know what The Hills are,” she responded at the time. “Oh, now you’re going to make me look like the old fart. God, you’re a mother—-er! Unbelievable! You’re supposed to make me look like the cool movie star! Come on! Get with it! What is The Hills?”

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She looked like a million Krugerrands, but South African beauty Charlize Theron did not sound happy as she marched into a Democratic National Convention screening of her new film, “Battle in Seattle.”

“I am absolutely flabbergasted how we went from no press to this kind of press,” the Oscar-winner fumed on her cell phone.

Possibly she was peeved that the media had become distracted by a TMZ.com video in which a paparazzo ambushes her at the Denver airport. Brushing him off, she says, “Are you blind or are you just stupid?”

The actress wasn’t talking about anything when we saw her at the SeaChange Forum screening. Fortunately, her beau, Stuart Townsend, who wrote and directed their film, was game to discuss the taut drama about the riots that derailed the 1999 World Trade Organization summit.

“Fifty [protest leaders] took the spotlight away from 15,000 people,” said Townsend, whose film also stars Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta and Andre Benjamin.

The protests at the DNC made a perfect backdrop for the film. As in Seattle, Townsend said, the massive police presence seemed to be aimed at intimidating demonstrators. “I do think that stifles dissent,” Townsend told us. “But I still think Americans will come here and speak up, as they should.”

Theron moved on later to the hoppin’ CNN Grill, where giant hoop star Charles Barkley gave her a big hug. Even that didn’t put her in the mood to talk with us. Fortunately, again, Barkley was chattier.

“I’m planning to run for governor of Alabama in 2014,” he told us, adding that he’s an independent. “I have to live there for seven years; I bought my house there last year. I have homes in Arizona and Pennsylvania, but Alabama needs more help.”

So, while he’s getting ready for his gubernatorial run, is there a job in the Obama administration that he’d like?

Said Sir Charles: “I’d like to be the guy who plays basketball with the President one day a week.”

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