Charlize Theron Refuses to ‘Gain 40 Pounds’ for a Role Again: ‘You Can’t Take It Off’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld Charlize Theron has retired from taking on roles with extreme body transformations. “I will never, ever do a movie again and say, ‘Yeah, I’ll gain 40 pounds.’ I will never do it again because you can’t take it off,” the “Fast X” star told Allure. “When I was 27, I did ‘Monster.’ I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight.
I missed three meals and I was back to my normal weight.” Theron won the Academy Award for best actress for “Monster,” in which she starred opposite Christina Ricci.
She has previously spoken out about easily snapping back to her previous weight after the 2003 biographical crime drama. But Theron said that with age, shedding excess weight gained for roles became nearly impossible.
She learned that first-hand after putting on 50 pounds for her 2018 dramedy “Tully.” “Then I did it at 43 for ‘Tully,’ and I remember a year into trying to lose the weight, I called my doctor and I said, ‘I think I’m dying because I cannot lose this weight.’ And he was like, ‘You’re over 40.
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