Allow Charlize Theron to Prove She Loves Potato Chips More Than You

Allow Charlize Theron to Prove She Loves Potato Chips More Than You

Charlize Theron is a monster about her snack of choice.

The Oscar winner—who plays Calypso in Christopher Nolan’s movie The Odyssey—shared what it would take to lure her into being trapped in a trance for years on end, just like her character does to Matt Damon’s Odysseus in the film.

“Oh, potato chips. I'm in. Bring me some,” Theron told Justin Sylvester during the Live from E! Stream at The Odyssey premiere in New York City July 14. “But I want flavored potato chips.”

Indeed, the South Africa native emphasized she doesn’t like plain chips, adding, “Americans with just the salt and the oil? No, I want chutney and ketchup and beef stew and all of that.”

And it seems the 50-year-old—who stars alongside Zendaya, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway and Lupita Nyong’o in The Odyssey, in theaters July 17—has stayed true to her love for potato chips through the years. After all, she previously explained how she relied on the snack to gain 50 pounds for her role in the 2018 movie Tully.

“I ate a lot of everything, but my drug of choice is potato chips,” she said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018. “I ate them everywhere. I had a bag in my car, a bag in the bathroom, a bag in the kitchen, a bag on the counter, a bag in my trailer. Everywhere I went there was just a bag.”

But while Theron was passionate about putting on the weight with the help of her favorite food, she admitted she didn’t indulge in the entire process.

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“The hardest thing for me was I wasn’t prepared for how that amount of processed food will affect your mood,” she continued. “I dealt with depression for the first time.”

In fact, the Mad Max: Fury Road actress realized, “What they say about ‘what you eat is who you are’ is so true, because I ate like a person who just didn’t move and I felt like that. I was lethargic and tired all the time, and that was a hard thing to break. Because it’s more mental than it is almost physical.”

And these days, Theron—who similarly gained weight for her role in 2003’s Monster—understands that her body doesn’t recover like it used to.

“I was younger [during Monster], I was like 27,” she explained. “I just didn’t snack for a week and I was back into shape; it was insane. That doesn’t happen anymore!”

For more stars who have undergone major transformations for their award-winning roles, keep reading…

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