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:

[source: huffingtonpost&gq]