In the latest starring movie "Tully", which depicts the real daily life of a mother who is busy raising three children, Charlize who played a mother who is exhausted from
In playing Marlo, who has completely abandoned the desire to "look beautiful" as a woman, she has given up on her family life, and has completely abandoned her desire to look beautiful. I want to feel it for myself," Charlize decided to challenge herself to gain 50 pounds.
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In the movie "Monster" released in 2003, which won the Academy Award for Best Actress, Charlize succeeded in gaining about 13 kg to play a former prostitute serial killer. To face the rough course of adding 10 kilos more than.
As a method of such a "reverse diet", Charlize worked on a strategy of eating unhealthy meals centered on junk food from morning to night.
Charlize said in an interview with ET Online, "For breakfast, I ate an In-N-OUT* burger and had two milkshakes." , I ate two cups of cold macaroni and cheese at 2 o'clock in the morning."
* Popular US fast food restaurant.
But after the first three weeks or so of fun, her reverse diet suddenly hit its limits. "Eating was no longer just a job...I feel like I'm pushing it down my throat rather than eating it. It's not easy to get fat." Charlize said it was hard.
Furthermore, through this increase in weight, she realized that gaining weight was more difficult than she had expected. rice field.
That is, ``People suffer from severe depression when they eat too much processed food and too much sugar.''
About the mental changes at that time, "I was so depressed that I was surprised. It was the first time in my life that I ate so much processed food and drank sugary drinks. At the shooting site of this work, I might have been a very unpleasant person.” also confessed.
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Charlize overcame a diet that would ruin her mental health. After filming ended, she returned to eating healthy and exercising again to get back in shape, but it took her about a year and a half, and she said she struggled to lose weight again. .
"Tully", which Charlize, who is nicknamed "Chameleon Actress", puts her body to the challenge, will be released on May 4th in the United States. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the world's largest independent film festival, in January and has been well received.