Okay, now I’m obsessed with figuring out what’s going on with Charlize Theron’s bust. Go back and look at her Esquire cover – they Photoshopped the crap out of her cleavage/bust on that cover, and now here she is on the cover of W Magazine, looking surprisingly… busty. Did she get some modest implants? Because I don’t remember these. At all. As for this W Mag cover feature… she’s promoting Mad Max: Fury Road. I would have loved to have seen Charlize and Tom Hardy together for this shoot, but they’ve both said that they didn’t really get along so well, so no joint editorials for us! You can read the full interview here. Some highlights:

Her first time watching Mad Max: “I saw Mad Max, and I remember certain images: the road, the cars going really fast. But I didn’t know who Mel Gibson was. I thought he was just some dude who had a really cool job. In South Africa, we didn’t have the whole celebrity thing—I had no idea that people knew actors’ names.”

Shooting Mad Max in Namibia, close to South Africa: “I was conflicted. Everybody knows that feeling of going home and being giddy and then, at the same time, wanting to projectile vomit. [Laughs] The shoot lasted an eternity—we were there for seven months.”

Shaving her head for the role: “At first, my character was going to be ghostlike and albino. And then I thought it would be stronger to shave my head. I called George [Miller] and told him my plan. He went silent, which I thought was a good sign. So I borrowed some clippers and buzzed it all off…. yes, it was really fun to shower with my bald head. You have not showered until you’ve showered hairless. That’s all I have to say.”

Her dogs and her son: “They’re all my children. I know people get weirded out when people talk that way about their animals, but love is love and care is care, and just because one needs a diaper and the other does not doesn’t mean you don’t have a deep feeling for them. The loss of some of my dogs has been just as devastating as the loss of a family member.”

Judgy about aging: “I do know that choosing to be a mom in my late 30s has been really great for me. It’s given me perspective… I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged. Women, in our society, are compartmentalized so that we start to feel like we’re cut flowers and after a while we will wilt. I realize now that’s not the case—we can celebrate every age. That’s my encouragement to 20-year-olds who are terrified of getting older: Don’t have a nervous breakdown and don’t hit the Chardonnay too hard. Getting older is not that bad.”

[From W Magazine]

Oh, I wonder if Charlize’s dogs-and-children-are-the-same comments are going to rile people up? I don’t think my dog is my child… he’s my fur-baby and I would be really devastated if something happens to him (right now I think he’s immortal), but no, he’s not my child. (He’s better, hahaha.)

Charlize also talks about dancing at the Oscars a few years ago and how Channing Tatum is lovely and she only did it so Seth MacFarlane would hire her for A Million Ways to Die in the West, because she wanted to get hired for a comedy. A film which bombed, right? Oh well… at least she got to do a comedy.

Photos courtesy of W Magazine.