Charlize Theron is no longer interested in changing her appearance for cinematic roles.
The Oscar winner, 48, stated that her body is still feeling the effects of her changing weight over the years when she would alter her appearance for specific movie parts.
“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,” Theron 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 an Academy Award for best actress for her performance in the 2003 film “Monster,” in which she co-starred with Christina Ricci.
The actress previously stated that she was able to easily lose the weight she gained for the film, but that it is now extremely impossible for her to do so.
After gaining 50 pounds for her 2018 film “Tully,” Theron claims she was unable to return to her original weight.
“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,” she said.
In 2018, Theron admitted to becoming “depressed” while attempting to adapt to the character. “I gained close to 50 pounds for this film,” she said at the time.
“I wanted to feel what this woman felt, and I think that was a way for me to get closer to her and get into that mindset.”
“You know, it was a huge surprise to me. I got hit in the face pretty hard with depression. Yeah, for the first time in my life, I was eating so much processed foods and I drank way too much sugar. I was not that fun to be around on this film,” she explained.
According to Theron, while the “first three weeks are always fun,” gaining weight beyond week three is “not fun anymore.”
“Like all of a sudden you’re just done eating that amount and then it becomes a job,” she said.
“I remember having to set my alarm in the middle of the night to just maintain [the weight]. I would literally wake up at two in the morning and I’d have a cup of cold macaroni and cheese just next to me.”
“I would wake up and I would just eat it… I would just, like, shove it in my throat. It’s hard to maintain that weight,” she added.
