Charlize Theron

I think they were really leaning on kind of that relationship part.

And I think they were not expecting, and I honestly don't think they had done a lot of research on Eileen.

I think they read the script, I was attached, and they just kind of said yes to financing it.

But if you really do your research, it's pretty, I mean, you don't have to explain it.

You know, you can look at all the documentaries out there on her and

why would you not try and kind of go for the truth?

I don't know if they thought that I would just kind of be me, maybe, because I'd never done anything like that.

So I think that was maybe another part too.

They didn't think I was going to do the full transformation.

I remember when I started gaining weight and we went to one of the producers threw a party for us and we went to his house and I very kind of like,

And just jokingly, I was like, oh, my God, I have a donut.

And I was, like, squishing my stomach and showing this lady in front of me.

And it turned out it was his wife.

And I just remember her face.

And she was like—I'm not going to say the guy's name, but she was like—

John?

Like, you should come see this.

Like, this kind of concern just came over her.

And I think that was maybe the first sign.

But when they started seeing the first dailies, I remember they were just like, you don't look that great.