Getting paid to gain weight? It sounds fun — until it’s not.
Charlize Theron has done it twice for two movies, but she had two very different experiences and has vowed to never do it again.
“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 told Allure in an interview published in August 2023.
“When I was 27, I did ‘Monster,'” she said. Charlize — who turned 48 in 2023 — won an Oscar for her performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the 2003 film. She gained 30 pounds as part of her transformation into the character.
When she was done shooting, she “lost 30 pounds, like, overnight,” she said, explaining that she “missed three meals” and immediately snapped back to her “normal weight.”
Sixteen years later, she gained a significant amount of weight for another role…
Keep reading to see her in both films and find out what happened when she tried to slim down in her 40s…
