Turning 40 seems to have hit Charlize Theron deep. Opening up last week to the Wall Street Journal, she spoke about her relationship with South Africa and Sean Penn. This time, she spoke to GQ UK and it didn’t go down too well with her fellow movie stars.
She first spoke about being typecasted:
Jobs with real gravitas go to people that are physically right for them and that’s the end of the story. How many roles are out there for the gorgeous, f***ing, gown-wearing eight-foot model? When meaty roles come through, I’ve been in the room and pretty people get turned away first.
And then touched on ageing, because you can see the wrinkles:
We live in a society where women wilt and men age like fine wine. And, for a long time, women accepted it. We were waiting for society to change, but now we’re taking leadership. It would be a lie to say there is less worry for women as they get older than there is for men… It feels there’s this unrealistic standard of what a woman is supposed to look like when she’s over 40.
But Princess Diaries actress Heather Matarazzo completely disagreed with Charlize’s theory on the idea that pretty people don’t get meaty movie roles.
To Twitter:
On her blog Matarazzo described her own personal struggles on finding roles because she wasn’t ‘fuckable’:
Even as I write this, I can still feel the pain, shame, and humiliation that came over me in that moment. I didn’t know then just how damaging those words would be. Three words. ‘You’re not fuckable.’
I didn’t think my agents were seeing me, I didn’t think casting directors were seeing me and I began to truly wonder, am I NOT seeing me? Am I ugly? Am I this unfuckable, gross, disgusting creature who should only be cast as the fat girl, or the freak?
And what she has to say is kind of true – Charlize has had roles that one would think an unfuckable person would play, like last year’s ‘Mad Max’ and her role in 2003’s ‘Monster’. Yet she got the part.
[source: huffingtonpost&gq]
