Even Charlize Theron struggles to lose weight.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old actress is opening up about packing on the pounds for her role in the upcoming film Tully<\/em> and the effects it had on her after she tried to lose the weight.<\/p>\n In a new interview with Variety,<\/em> the Atomic Blonde<\/em> star shares that she was looking for a role in a smaller film where she “could lose herself,” which led her to reunite with her Young Adult<\/em> director, Jason Reitman, for Tully.<\/em> Theron plays a mother of three who gets a night nanny and the two form an unexpected bond. The part required her to gain weight, which she says was “harder for her now than when she was in her 20s.”<\/p>\n “It was brutal in every sense,” Theron, who previously put on 40 pounds for her Oscar-winning performance in the 2003 film, Monster<\/em>, expresses. “This time around, I really felt it in my health. The sugar put me in a massive depression. I was sick. I couldn’t lose the weight. I called my doctor and I said, ‘I think I’m dying!’ And he’s like, ‘No, you’re 41. Calm down.'”<\/p>\n\n