The 'Fast X' and 'Old Guard' star also discusses the challenges of doing action movies as she gets older: 'More than my face, I wish I had my 25-year-old body that I can just throw against the wall and not even hurt tomorrow.'
“People think I had a facelift. They’re like, ‘What did she do to her face?’ I’m like, ‘Bitch, I’m just aging! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens,'” theShe went on to express frustration around the ways people discuss the aging process for different genders, noting that it’s frequently said “men kind of age like fine wines and women like cut flowers.”
“I despise that concept and I want to fight against it, but I also think women want to age in a way that feels right to them,” she continued. “I think we need to be a little bit more empathetic to how we all go through our journey. My journey of having to see my face on a billboard is quite funny now.”
But aging isn’t just affecting Theron’s appearance. The action star opened up about how she is no longer able to perform stunts the same way, adding that more than a youthful face, she wishes she could rebound more with her body. Sometimes the physical taxation means she “can’t sit down on the toilet,” she noted, laughing. “It’s all those very real moments.”
“The thing that really bums me out is that I make action movies now and if I hurt myself, I take way longer to heal than I did in my 20s,” she told the magazine. “More than my face, I wish I had my 25-year-old body that I can just throw against the wall and not even hurt tomorrow. Now, if I don’t work out for three days and I go back to the gym, I can’t walk.”
Theron also says she’s not interested in taking on roles that require significant weight gain again, as taking it off is no longer as easy as it was earlier in her career. “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 said. “When I was 27, I did
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