“I wish I had my 25-year-old body”: Charlize Theron Hints Retirement From Action After Her MCU Debut?
The South African-American actress Charlize Theron rose to fame with her 1997 released Devil’s Advocate alongside Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. She has also been associated with reputed franchises like Fast And Furious, and Mad Max. She is not only a great actor, but also an active philanthropist as she is a messenger of peace for the United Nations and has also worked for AIDS awareness.
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Charlize Theron is majorly known for her action sequences in major Hollywood blockbusters. Even at the age of 48, the actor was seen in the tenth installment of the action-drama Fast X. Recently, during an interview, the Academy Award recipient hinted towards taking an exit from the action genre, for which she is primarily known in the entertainment world.
Charlize Theron Indirectly Hints Retirement From Action Genre
Charlize Theron is one of those actors in Hollywood who clearly justifies that age is just a number. As the Bombshell actor inches toward being 50, she is still an active participant in the game of action stunts. During an interview with the reputed media outlet Allure, the actor spoke about facelifts and even indirectly hinted towards her retirement from the action genre. She said-
“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. 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. I can’t sit down on the toilet. It’s all those very real moments.”
While talking about going for a facelift, she said-
“My face is changing, and I love that my face is changing and aging,” she says. But “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.’”
Charlize Theron has always been very vocal about almost everything in public and as well as on social media. During the interview, she even pointed out that she hates the aging discrimination between men and women. As it has been perceived since ages that men age like fine wine and women like cut flowers, Charlize Theron mentioned that women always want to age in a way they feel is right.
Charlize Theron On Kissing Her Fast And Furious Co-star Vin Diesel
During a scene in the eighth installment of the action-drama franchise Fast And Furious, Charlize Theron kissed her co-star Vin Diesel. The character of Cipher played by Charlize Theron had to manipulate the protagonist Dominic Toretto portrayed by Vin Diesel to join him in a mission to destroy the Earth and the scene required the actor to kiss Vin Diesel. During an interview with USA Today, Vin Diesel confessed that he loved filming the kissing scene. He said-
“Not a bad kissing partner to have. I was definitely not complaining. It was the biggest moment in trailer history. Do I know she enjoyed it? Oh, my god, yeah. A kiss cannot lie, lips don’t lie. No, they didn’t. She OWNED it,”
Reacting to his comment, Charlize Theron spoke about the scene during her appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She said-
“I just don’t get it. He’s literally going around saying that I had the best time of my life. I like a little more movement in my men. It looks like a forceful kiss. It looks like I’m assaulting his face with my mouth. And he’s standing there, as his character should’ve, frozen, like a dead fish.”
Charlize Theron was introduced to the Fast And Furious installment as Cipher, a talented hacker and cyberterrorist in the 2017 released Fate Of The Furious, and even went on to reprise her character in 2021 released F9 and 2023’s Fast X.
The Fast And Furious series can be streamed on HBO Max.
Source: Allure
