The actor has called out double standards for ageing stars in the movie industry
The star has also worked extensively in modelling, most notably for Dior, and said that despite being accustomed to scrutiny, she remained frustrated by assumptions people made about whether she’d had work done to her face.
“People think I had a face-lift,” she said. “They’re like, ‘What did she do to her face?’ I’m like, ‘Bitch, I’m just ageing! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens.’” Theron also discussed how much harder it was to shed weight gained for a role as she became older. While losing the 40lb gained for Monster was simply a case of “miss[ing] three meals and I was back to my normal weight”, it was much greater challenge to lose the weight gained for Tully in 2018.
She said: “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.’” She added: “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.”