At age 48, Charlize Theron is embracing the best way she seems to be—regardless of Hollywood’s unrealistic magnificence requirements and hypothesis about her look.
“My face is altering, and I really like that my face is altering and growing old…. Folks assume I had a facelift,” the Oscar-winning actor told Allure in an interview revealed Friday. “They’re like, ‘What did she do to her face?’ I’m like, ‘Bitch, I’m simply growing old! It doesn’t imply I received unhealthy cosmetic surgery. That is simply what occurs.’”
Chatting with the outlet in honor of her decades-long collaboration with Dior’s J’Adore fragrance, Theron received candid about being a girl over 40 in Hollywood. “I’ve all the time had points with the truth that males type of age like high quality wines and ladies like reduce flowers,” she mentioned. “I despise that idea and I wish to battle in opposition to it, however I additionally assume ladies wish to age in a manner that feels proper to them. I feel we should be slightly bit extra empathetic to how all of us undergo our journey.”
Theron additionally delved into the bodily toll of some previous roles, which required her to achieve weight or carry out her personal stunts. “I’ll by no means, ever do a film once more and say, ‘Yeah, I’ll acquire 40 kilos.’ I’ll by no means do it once more as a result of you may’t take it off,” she mentioned. At 27, Theron placed on weight to play convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos for her Oscar-winning efficiency in 2003’s Monster. “I misplaced 30 kilos, like, in a single day. I missed three meals and I used to be again to my regular weight,” she mentioned. Theron tried to repeat that transformation at 43 for her function as a postpartum mom in 2018’s Tully, “and I bear in mind a 12 months into making an attempt to lose the load, I known as my physician and I mentioned, ‘I feel I’m dying as a result of I can’t lose this weight.’ And he was like, ‘You’re over 40. Relax. Your metabolism is just not what it was,’” Theron recalled. “No one needs to listen to that.”
And whereas Theron has been recognized to do a few of her personal stunt work for roles in motion movies like Mad Max: Fury Street and Atomic Blonde, these days could also be behind her. “The factor that basically bums me out is that I make motion films now and if I harm myself, I take manner longer to heal than I did in my 20s,” she defined. “Greater than my face, I want I had my 25-year-old physique that I can simply throw in opposition to the wall and never even harm tomorrow. Now, if I don’t work out for 3 days and I am going again to the fitness center, I can’t stroll. I can’t sit down on the bathroom. It’s all these very actual moments.”
