Charlize Theron Gained 50 Pounds for New Role
by EG
Atomic Blonde star Charlize Theron needed to be much larger for the starring role in her upcoming movie Tully. Fortunately, she knew how to pull of a fast, impressive weight gain. She just needed to eat more macaroni and cheese.
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Charlize Theron on a whopping 50 pounds to play overwhelmed mother Marlo in her new film, “Tully.”
“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,” Theron told Entertainment Tonight. “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.”
As described, Theron, 42, would eat around the clock just to keep the weight on.
“Like, all of a sudden you’re just done eating that amount and then it becomes a job,” she said after confessing to eating In-N-Out for breakfast. “I remember having to set my alarm in the middle of the night in order to just maintain [the weight].”
She goes into gluttonous detail adding, “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,” the Oscar winner shared. “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.”
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