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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Charlize Theron attacks Hollywood beauty standard: ‘I’m just ageing! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery’

Charlize Theron at the premiere for Fast X in Rome, May 2023.
Charlize Theron at the premiere for Fast X in Rome, May 2023. Photograph: Elisabetta A Villa/Getty Images

Charlize Theron has said she wants to “fight against” what she perceives as unjust double standards for female actors over 40 in Hollywood.

The actor, 48, said she “despise[s] the concept” that while men “age like fine wines” women do so “like cut flowers”.

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