Whether Atomic Blonde, Mad Max: Fury Road or the last Fast and Furious films: Oscar winner Charlize Theron has built up a second mainstay as an action heroine that the Meryl Streeps of this world can only dream of.
With increasing age, however, the South African also faces physical challenges that she did not have 20 years ago when she transformed for films like Monster.
Charlize Theron: ‘I wish I had my body from 25 years ago’
Speaking at length to Allure magazine (via Sensacine), Theron once again left the world with some memorable quotes, including: “People think I’ve had a facelift. They’re like, ‘What did she do to her face? I’m like, ‘What did she do to her face? ‘Bitch, I’ve just aged!'”
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Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde
The 48-year-old spoke about the preparation that film roles now demand of her. She gained 30 pounds for her Oscar role in Monster and has had no trouble losing the weight since then. In your 40s it’s not that easy anymore. This also applies to roles that require intensive physical activity:
More than my face I wish I had the body I had 25 years agowhich I can just throw against the wall without it hurting tomorrow.
Theron makes an action movie nearly every year, has her own franchise with The Old Guard, and is a regular cast member of Fast and Furious as the hacker Cipher. In the most recent part Fast X, for example, she fought in a sequence with Michelle Rodriguez. Even the preparation is a challenge for the actress:
Now if I don’t exercise for three days and go back to the gym, I can’t run. I can’t sit on the toilet.
What is Charlize Theron doing next?
Most recently, Charlize Theron appeared in The School for Good and Evil on Netflix and in cinemas in the 10th Fast and Furious Movie. Also, she had a cameo at the end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
This year the Action sequel The Old Guard 2 on Netflix start, in which Theron once again plays the ancient superhero Andromache of Scythia, who ensures law and order in the present with her team of ancient warriors.
The action sequel Atomic Blonde 2 is also in development. So Charlize Theron has to keep struggling in the gym.