The actress also talked about the passage of time in the industry and why she would like to have her body at 25 more than her face.
Charlize Theron She is one of those actresses willing to dive right in for roles like the ones she played in Tully and Monster. Both roles required the star to make physical changes, something Theron isn’t willing to do again.
“I will never ever go back to making a movie and saying, ‘Yeah, I’ll gain 50 pounds.’ I will never do it again because you can’t take it off.”he told Allure. “When I was 27 years old, I did Monster. I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight. I skipped three meals and went back to my normal weight.”
Although Theron found it relatively easy to regain her normal weight after her Oscar-winning performance in Monster of 2003, the same cannot be said when he did it again for Tully of 2018.
“Then I did it at 43 for Tully, and I remember after a year of trying to lose weight, I called my doctor and said, ‘I think I’m dying because I can’t lose this weight.’ And he said, ‘You’re over 40. Take it easy. Your metabolism is no longer what it was. Nobody wants to hear that,” he added.
Charlize Theron and the passage of time in the film industry
In the same interview, Theron spoke about aging in the film industry, adding: “What really bothers me is that now I do action movies and if I get hurt, it takes much longer to heal than it did in my 20s.”.
He continued, “More than my face, I wish I had my 25-year-old body that I can throw against the wall and not even get hurt tomorrow. Now if I don’t work out for three days and go back to the gym, I can’t walk. I can’t sit on the toilet,” he says with a laugh. “It’s all those very real moments.”
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