Charlize Theron has consistently captured audiences with her remarkable talent and stunning performances. While many actors are known for their dedication to their craft, Theron has gained attention for her decision to avoid roles that demand significant physical transformations. Refusing to undergo extreme weight changes for characters, Theron remains steadfast in her commitment to maintaining her natural physique.
Now, let’s discover why the actress refuses to gain weight for any new roles.
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For her acting skills, Charlize Theron is consistently invited to embrace demanding roles like those in Monster (2003) and Tully (2018), in which she had to transform her physical appearance for characters, a real-life convicted criminal and an exhausted mother of three. For her performance, she even won an Oscar for Best Actress in the 2003 film.
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Despite her success with those roles, the actress never wanted to go through those experiences and opened up about it. She said, “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,” she said. “When I was 27, I did Monster. I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight. I missed 3 meals, and I was back to my normal weight.”
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The 48-year-old actress shared that due to her age, she couldn’t effortlessly shed extra pounds. She confessed, “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. Calm down. Your metabolism is not what it was.’ Nobody wants to hear that,”
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Apart from this, she opened up about how doing stunts in action movies is more challenging at her age. She said, “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 in my 20s,” she added, “More than my face, I wish I had my 25-year-old body that I can just throw against the wall and not even hurt tomorrow. Now, if I don’t work out for 3 days and I go back to the gym, I can’t walk. I can’t sit down on the toilet. It’s all those very real moments.”