Editor’s Note: This publish consists of references of fat-shaming and anti-fatness that may be arduous for some to learn.
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In one among Variety’s current Actors on Acting interviews, Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she was pressured to drop a few pounds for The Hunger Games. “I remember the biggest conversation was, ‘How much weight are you going to lose?'” she informed Viola Davis. “Along with me being young and growing and not able to be on a diet, I don’t know if I want all of the girls who are going to dress up as Katniss to feel like they can’t because they’re not a certain weight. And I can’t let that seep into my brain either.”
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Bryce Dallas Howard is a staple of the Jurassic World movies — however even along with her confirmed star energy, she was requested to drop a few pounds for the third movie. “[I’ve] been asked to not use my natural body in cinema,” she informed Metro, alluding to the truth that she’d been requested to drop a few pounds for the previous two movies as nicely. “The conversation came up again: ‘We need to ask Bryce to lose weight.'” However, she mentioned director Colin Trevorrow stood up for her, and emphasised that “there are lots of different kinds of women on this planet, and there are lots of different kinds of women in our film.”
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When Florence Pugh was solid in Studio City at age 19, she was informed not solely to drop a few pounds, however to vary her face. This made her rethink her profession alternative. “All the issues that they have been making an attempt to vary about me — whether or not it was my weight, my look, the form of my face, the form of my eyebrows — that was so not what I wished to do, or the business I wished to work in.” The present was not picked up, and Pugh ended up having a a lot better expertise in her subsequent position, in Lady Macbeth.
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For her position in Yellowjackets, Melanie Lynskey was not requested to drop a few pounds, however she did cope with uncomfortable feedback from a manufacturing employees member about her weight. “They were asking me, ‘What do you plan to do? I’m sure the producers will get you a trainer. They’d love to help you with this.'” Lynskey mentioned she ignored the feedback, and located it essential for girls to narrate to her and see a personality who feels snug in her physique and attractive.
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Amy Schumer was additionally pressured to drop a few pounds for the movie she wrote and starred in, Trainwreck. “It was explained to me before I did that movie that if you weigh over 140 pounds as a woman in Hollywood, that…if you’re on the screen it will hurt people’s eyes,” she mentioned in an interview. “So I lost some weight to do that, but never again.” She mentioned they’d her work with a coach and gave her a strict food regimen (which she mentioned had “no food” for some meals), however that it solely triggered her to lose 3 kilos.
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Margaret Cho was additionally pressured to drop a few pounds for All-American Girl. She was informed she “was too overweight to play the part of [herself].” She then drastically decreased her meals consumption, and later ended up within the hospital with kidney failure from “not eating.”
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When Henry Cavill auditioned to play James Bond when he was 21 (a task that went to Daniel Craig), the director pulled him apart and mentioned one thing alongside the strains of, “Look, buddy, you’re at a Bond screen test. The next time you come to a screen test, really focus on making sure you bend over if it’s for something like Bond.” Cavill mentioned he was “by no means plump, but I probably gained some extra weight by taking off my shirt in front of the camera” — one thing he is all the time disliked doing.
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Chris Pratt was initially informed he was “too fat” to play Scott Hatteberg in Moneyball — inflicting him to show to crash weight-reduction plan, working, and slicing alcohol so as to drop a few pounds. “That was the primary time I heard somebody say, ‘We’re not gonna solid you — you’re too fats,” he informed Vanity Fair.
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Patricia Arquette was requested to drop a few pounds for Medium, and mentioned it made her really feel “annoyed and crappy. But I feel like it’s been a conversation my whole life. When True Romance came out, some critics said I was too fat or too heavy.” However, she was in a position to leverage her expertise as a film star to struggle again towards these requests. “I was in position of power and could say, ‘On True Romance, Tony Scott never made me feel like that. What are you saying? That every married woman has to look a certain way? [My character] has three kids. It’s about a marriage, not a modelling competition.'”
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When David Harbour auditioned to play the Blob in an X-Men movie, he jokingly confirmed his abdomen and mentioned, “I got your blob right here!” Afterward, he was known as into a gathering with the director, the place he was informed, “David, look, you’re wonderful, we really think you’re just a great actor, we’re just concerned … you lifted up your shirt and we saw the… We’re just a little worried about your health.” Harbour continued, “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, dude, pause for one second. You are telling me I’m too fat to play The Blob?'” He did not get the position.
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Carrie Fisher was informed to drop a few pounds when she was first solid within the Star Wars sequence. “They wish to rent a part of me, not all of me. So they wish to rent about three-fourths, so I’ve to do away with the fourth one way or the other,” Fisher revealed. “The first film I had, I suppose you’d nonetheless name it child fats.” She weighed 105 kilos, and was informed to lose 10.
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She was additionally pressured to drop a few pounds for her return in The Force Awakens — particularly, 35 kilos. “Nothing changes, it’s an appearance-driven thing,” she said. I’m in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. It’s so messed up. They might as well say get younger because that’s how easy it is.”
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Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay requested the movie’s star, Kate Beckinsale, to drop a few pounds for the movie. “It wasn’t great,” Beckinsale mentioned. “It didn’t make me feel good, and in general, I think women are body-shamed 100 million percent more than men.”
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Kirsten Dunst was additionally requested to drop a few pounds for The Beguiled by its director, Sofia Coppola. Dunst refused, saying, “I’m eating fried chicken and McDonald’s before work. So I’m like, ‘We have no options! I’m sorry I can’t lose weight for this role.’”
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Queen Latifah revealed to Entertainment Tonight that she — together with the remainder of the solid of Living Single — have been pressured to drop a few pounds whereas the present was airing. “Here we are, four different women, four different body types, and we needed to lose weight. … It really angered me. I said, ‘We are what women look like, we’re not going to lose weight for whoever’s idea of what we’re supposed to look like.””
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Hayley Atwell was pressured to drop a few pounds for Brideshead Revisited. Emma Thompson, who additionally starred within the movie, defended Atwell, telling the studio/producer, ’If you converse to her about this once more, on any stage, I’ll go away this image. You are by no means to try this.’” In the tip, Miramax “accepted” Atwell “for who [she] was.” Speaking about Thompson’s help, Atwell mentioned, “if I’ve ever had an insecurity about myself in this industry, Emma always has an amazing ability to say something to put it all into perspective so that you don’t hate yourself.”
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Rafe Spall was requested to drop a few pounds for I Give It a Year. “It was made clear to me that I needed to lose weight in order to do the film. And so, a trainer was laid on. I trained twice a day for 13 weeks to look like a ‘normal guy,'” he mentioned. “It wasn’t like I used to be taking part in a superhero or no matter — I used to be taking part in a standard man.’
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Universal Pictures president Rob Meyer requested Jason Segel to drop a few pounds for The Five-Year Engagement. “I was told that it had to be conceivable that Emily Blunt would ever choose me to be her husband. Which is fair,” Segel informed David Letterman. He misplaced 35 kilos for his position within the movie.
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Kate Winslet was usually pressured by tabloids to drop a few pounds early in her profession, and her agent was usually requested, “How’s her weight?” in reference to potential roles. When she starred in Mare of Easttown, she was not informed to drop a few pounds, however director Craig Zobel did counsel that he might take away her “bulgy bit of belly” from a intercourse scene. Winslet refused, stressing that folks join with the character as a result of there are “no filters.”
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In the mid-2000s, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was informed to drop a few pounds — and cease going to the fitness center — as a part of an effort to shed his wrestling previous. “Well, you buy into that shit, as I did, until — one of two things was going to happen,” Johnson mentioned. “You’re either going to continue to go down that road and that path, and you’re going to be miserable. And eventually your career is probably going to fizzle out and it’s not going to have any sense of longevity or quality to it.”
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Richard Madden has additionally been pressured to drop a few pounds for “numerous roles,” saying, “It doesn’t just happen to women.” Madden dislikes portraying “unrealistic body image,” and says his friends do, too: “I find myself with actor friends — after we’ve done a kind of barely eating, working-out-twice-a-day, no-carbing thing for these scenes — looking at each other going: ‘We’re just feeding this same s**t that we’re against.'”
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And lastly, Viola Davis was pressured to drop a few pounds early in her profession. She was continually informed at Julliard that she was “too fat” and “heavy.”
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