Charlize Theron has decided that she will no longer put her health and body at risk for a job.
The actress, who is 48 years old and is most known for her role in Atomic Blonde, recently gave an interview to Allure in which she discussed how altering her look for particular movies has had a lasting impact on her physique.
“I will never, ever do another movie and say, ‘Yeah, I’ll gain 40 pounds.’ That’s never going to happen again.” “I will never do it again because there is no going back,” Theron stated of the experience. “When I was 27, I started using Monster, and I dropped 30 pounds in what seemed like no time at all. I skipped three meals, and within a week I had returned to my previous weight.
Theron claims that this is no longer the case after more than 20 years has passed. She created Tully in 2018, and during that time she saw a difference between gaining weight when she was in her 20s and when she was in her 40s. In order to portray a woman suffering from postpartum depression in the movie, she had to put on about 50 more pounds.
After the filming of Tully was over, it took Theron more than a year to get back to the weight she was at before the shooting began. According to an interview that she gave to Allure, there was a time when she went so far as to see a medical professional in order to figure out why she was unable to lose weight. She recounted telling her physician, “I think I’m dying because I cannot lose this weight,” and the doctor responded with concern.
However, the physician assured her that there was no need for concern and that the inability to shed the additional weight was only a natural and inevitable consequence of growing older. He said something to the effect of, ‘You’re over 40. Do not panic. “Your metabolism is not what it used to be,” was the remark that her doctor gave her, when she explained it. Theron came clean and said, “Nobody wants to hear that.”
The Fast X actress then go on to discuss growing older in the Hollywood industry. “The thing that really bums me out is that I make action movies now and if I hurt myself, I take way longer to heal than I did when I was in my 20s,” Theron said in an interview with the site. “It’s really a bummer.”
During the course of the conversation, Theron shared her opinion that if she were forced to choose, she would choose her physique from 20 years ago rather than her face traits from that time period. “More than my face, I wish I had my body when I was 25 years old so that I could simply hurl it against the wall and not even injure myself tomorrow. She went on to say, “Right now, if I go to the gym after missing three days of my workout routine, I am unable to walk.”
She also wishes that she could view the world through the same rose-colored glasses as her girls, adding that her daughters “have no concept of what age is like.” Theron continued by saying, “They see somebody, they like what they’re wearing, or they think they’re pretty, and they don’t really know if she’s in her 20s or if she’s in her 60s.” It is very wonderful. That is fantastic. I just hope that we could simply keep that up.”
Theron had previously discussed in 2018 how much more challenging it was for her to acquire and lose weight for the role of Tully in comparison to her experience on Monster.
“My physical self has been giving me a lot of trouble. “When you’re older, everything is just so much different,” Theron said at the time. In addition to that, throughout this period of my life I experienced depression for the very first time. I simply wasn’t eating very healthily, and a lot of the processed sweets and other stuff just really drove me into a horrible depression. Before that point in my life, I had never dealt with anything even remotely like to that. It really surprised me and caught me off guard.
She wrapped up shooting Tully before Thanksgiving, but she decided to wait to start her diet until after the holidays were over. “And then when January came around, it was just like I could barely walk on a treadmill,” Theron said in an interview. “I tried this again a while ago, and for some reason, my body didn’t react the same way. It seems like it took me about a year and a half to lose all of the weight.”
