Editor’s Notice: This submit contains references of fat-shaming and anti-fatness that could be exhausting for some to learn.
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In one in every of Selection’s current Actors on Performing interviews, Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she was pressured to shed some pounds for The Starvation Video games. “I bear in mind the most important dialog was, ‘How a lot weight are you going to lose?'” she informed Viola Davis. “Together with me being younger and rising and never in a position to be on a eating regimen, I don’t know if I would like all the women who’re going to decorate up as Katniss to really feel like they will’t as a result of they’re not a sure weight. And I can’t let that seep into my mind both.”
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Bryce Dallas Howard is a staple of the Jurassic World movies — however even together with her confirmed star energy, she was requested to shed some pounds for the third movie. “[I’ve] been requested to not use my pure physique in cinema,” she informed Metro, alluding to the truth that she’d been requested to shed some pounds for the previous two movies as properly. “The dialog got here up once more: ‘We have to ask Bryce to shed some pounds.'” Nevertheless, she stated director Colin Trevorrow stood up for her, and emphasised that “there are many completely different varieties of girls on this planet, and there are many completely different varieties of girls in our movie.”
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When Florence Pugh was forged in Studio Metropolis at age 19, she was informed not solely to shed some pounds, however to vary her face. This made her rethink her profession alternative. “All of 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 needed to do, or the business I needed to work in.” The present was not picked up, and Pugh ended up having a significantly better expertise in her subsequent position, in Girl Macbeth.
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For her position in Yellowjackets, Melanie Lynskey was not requested to shed some pounds, however she did cope with uncomfortable feedback from a manufacturing employees member about her weight. “They have been asking me, ‘What do you propose to do? I am certain the producers will get you a coach. They’d love that will help you with this.'” Lynskey stated she ignored the feedback, and located it vital for ladies to narrate to her and see a personality who feels snug in her physique and horny.
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Amy Schumer was additionally pressured to shed some pounds for the movie she wrote and starred in, Trainwreck. “It was defined to me earlier than I did that film that in the event you weigh over 140 kilos as a girl in Hollywood, that…in the event you’re on the display it’s going to damage folks’s eyes,” she stated in an interview. “So I misplaced some weight to do this, however by no means once more.” She stated that they had her work with a coach and gave her a strict eating regimen (which she stated had “no meals” for some meals), however that it solely triggered her to lose 3 kilos.
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Margaret Cho was additionally pressured to shed some pounds for All-American Lady. She was informed she “was too obese to play the a part of [herself].” She then drastically decreased her meals consumption, and later ended up within the hospital with kidney failure from “not consuming.”
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When Henry Cavill auditioned to play James Bond when he was 21 (a job that went to Daniel Craig), the director pulled him apart and stated one thing alongside the strains of, “Look, buddy, you’re at a Bond display take a look at. The following time you come to a display take a look at, actually concentrate on ensuring you bend over if it’s for one thing like Bond.” Cavill stated he was “not at all plump, however I in all probability gained some additional weight by taking off my shirt in entrance of the digicam” — one thing he is all the time disliked doing.
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Chris Pratt was initially informed he was “too fats” to play Scott Hatteberg in Moneyball — inflicting him to show to crash weight-reduction plan, working, and slicing alcohol with a purpose to shed some pounds. “That was the primary time I heard somebody say, ‘We’re not gonna forged you — you’re too fats,” he informed Self-importance Honest.
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Patricia Arquette was requested to shed some pounds for Medium, and stated it made her really feel “aggravated and crappy. However I really feel prefer it’s been a dialog my entire life. When True Romance got here out, some critics stated I used to be too fats or too heavy.” Nevertheless, she was in a position to leverage her expertise as a film star to battle again in opposition to these requests. “I used to be in place of energy and will say, ‘On True Romance, Tony Scott by no means made me really feel like that. What are you saying? That each married girl has to look a sure means? [My character] has three youngsters. It is a couple of marriage, not a modelling competitors.'”
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When David Harbour auditioned to play the Blob in an X-Males movie, he jokingly confirmed his abdomen and stated, “I received your blob proper right here!” Afterward, he was referred to as into a gathering with the director, the place he was informed, “David, look, you’re fantastic, we actually suppose you’re only a nice actor, we’re simply involved … you lifted up your shirt and we noticed the… We’re just a bit nervous about your well being.” Harbour continued, “I used to be like, ‘Wait a minute, dude, pause for one second. You’re telling me I’m too fats to play The Blob?'” He did not get the position.
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Carrie Fisher was informed to shed some pounds when she was first forged within the Star Wars sequence. “They need to rent a part of me, not all of me. So that they need to rent about three-fourths, so I’ve to eliminate the fourth by some means,” Fisher revealed. “The primary 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 shed some pounds for her return in The Drive Awakens — particularly, 35 kilos. “Nothing modifications, it’s an appearance-driven factor,” she stated. I’m in a enterprise the place the one factor that issues is weight and look. It’s so tousled. They may as properly say get youthful as a result of that’s how simple it’s.”
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Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay requested the movie’s star, Kate Beckinsale, to shed some pounds for the movie. “It wasn’t nice,” Beckinsale stated. “It didn’t make me really feel good, and typically, I feel girls are body-shamed 100 million % greater than males.”
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Kirsten Dunst was additionally requested to shed some pounds for The Beguiled by its director, Sofia Coppola. Dunst refused, saying, “I’m consuming fried hen and McDonald’s earlier than work. So I’m like, ‘We’ve no choices! I’m sorry I can’t shed some pounds for this position.’”
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Queen Latifah revealed to Leisure Tonight that she — together with the remainder of the forged of Dwelling Single — have been pressured to shed some pounds whereas the present was airing. “Right here we’re, 4 completely different girls, 4 completely different physique sorts, and we would have liked to shed some pounds. … It actually angered me. I stated, ‘We’re what girls appear to be, we’re not going to shed some pounds for whoever’s concept of what we’re imagined to appear to be.””
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Hayley Atwell was pressured to shed some pounds for Brideshead Revisited. Emma Thompson, who additionally starred within the movie, defended Atwell, telling the studio/producer, ’For those who communicate to her about this once more, on any degree, I’ll depart this image. You’re by no means to do this.’” Ultimately, Miramax “accepted” Atwell “for who [she] was.” Talking about Thompson’s assist, Atwell stated, “if I’ve ever had an insecurity about myself on this business, Emma all the time has an incredible skill to say one thing to place all of it into perspective so that you just don’t hate your self.”
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Rafe Spall was requested to shed some pounds for I Give It a 12 months. “It was made clear to me that I wanted to shed some pounds with a purpose to do the movie. And so, a coach was laid on. I educated twice a day for 13 weeks to appear to be a ‘regular man,'” he stated. “It wasn’t like I used to be taking part in a superhero or no matter — I used to be taking part in a traditional man.’
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Common Footage president Rob Meyer requested Jason Segel to shed some pounds for The 5-12 months Engagement. “I used to be informed that it needed to be conceivable that Emily Blunt would ever select me to be her husband. Which is honest,” Segel informed David Letterman. He misplaced 35 kilos for his position within the movie.
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Kate Winslet was typically pressured by tabloids to shed some pounds early in her profession, and her agent was typically requested, “How’s her weight?” in reference to potential roles. When she starred in Mare of Easttown, she was not informed to shed some pounds, however director Craig Zobel did counsel that he might take away her “bulgy little bit of stomach” from a intercourse scene. Winslet refused, stressing that individuals join with the character as a result of there are “no filters.”
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Within the mid-2000s, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was informed to shed some pounds — and cease going to the gymnasium — as a part of an effort to shed his wrestling previous. “Properly, you purchase into that shit, as I did, till — one in every of two issues was going to occur,” Johnson stated. “You are both going to proceed to go down that street and that path, and you are going to be depressing. And ultimately your profession might be going to fizzle out and it isn’t going to have any sense of longevity or high quality to it.”
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Richard Madden has additionally been pressured to shed some pounds for “quite a few roles,” saying, “It doesn’t simply occur to girls.” Madden dislikes portraying “unrealistic physique picture,” and says his friends do, too: “I discover myself with actor associates — after we have carried out a type of barely consuming, working-out-twice-a-day, no-carbing factor for these scenes — one another going: ‘We’re simply feeding this identical s**t that we’re in opposition to.'”
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And at last, Viola Davis was pressured to shed some pounds early in her profession. She was continuously informed at Julliard that she was “too fats” and “heavy.”
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