Charlize Theron Talks Marriage & Sean Penn: 'He's Hot!'

Charlize Theron takes the cover of Esquire magazine’s May 2015 issue and looks amazing.

Here’s what the 39-year-old Mad Max: Fury Road star had to share with the mag:

On being friends with Sean Penn first: “We’ve been friends for twenty years. He was married, I was in a long-term relationship, our spouses�”not regularly, but we were in each other’s lives. I think our friendship stemmed from mutual respect�”more on my end, because I really didn’t have a body of work twenty years ago, but my love and passion for making films�”that was our common ground. And also, Sean liked to have conversations outside of just making movies. That’s sometimes hard to find among friends here, and that’s where our friendship really blossomed. I think we’re both finding ourselves at this moment in our lives kind of shocked. Both of us. Just when you think you know how things are supposed to go down, life just kicks you in the ass and guess what? You don’t have a clue. It is nice to be in something where the friendship came first. I’ve never had that. There’s a weight to the relationship already that I don’t think you have when you just meet somebody and enter a relationship. There’s a foundation of twenty years that the two of us have shared with each other in all these different ways that is really the foundation of something that has brought a lot of beautiful things into my life. We get so stuck in wanting to predict the future that we forget the moment that we’re in. And the moment that we’re in is just really good. It’s really good, really nice.”

On the possibility of marriage: “The marriage thing is always so strange to me anyway. I love the possibility of anything, but I’m really enjoying myself and the everyday moment and how that coincides with my son and my life and my friends. I’m a very, very, very lucky girl. Very lucky. He’s hot. He is hot. How do you say that in an interview? You’re a forty-year-old woman sounding like a sixteen-year-old. There’s something beautiful about that, but you lack the articulation of really saying what it’s like when somebody walks into your life and makes you see something that you really never thought you’d be able to see. If somebody had said to me, ‘This is what it will be,’ I would’ve said, ‘F*ck off.’ As you can see, it makes me smile.”"

On Mad Max co-star Tom Hardy: “We f*ckin’ went at it, yeah….It was like a family road trip that just never went anywhere. We never got anywhere. We just drove. We drove into nothingness, and that was maddening sometimes.”

For more from Charlize, visit Esquire.com.