“The director instructed me that in sure lights, I regarded like a monster.”
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In a current Instagram submit, Amanda Bynes wrote, “I as soon as did a film the place the director instructed me that in sure lights, I regarded like a monster.”
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Lili Reinhart shared on her Instagram story earlier this month, “A director as soon as got here as much as me earlier than a take and stated, ‘Suck in your abdomen just a little bit.’ Sadly, it is one thing I take into consideration typically once I’m filming a scene.”
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Jamie Lee Curtis had a Vicodin dependancy after being prescribed the drug following cosmetic surgery. In 2019, she defined how a cameraman’s remark influenced her resolution to go beneath the knife, saying, “We have been capturing a scene in a courtroom with that type of excessive, nasty fluorescent gentle, and it got here round to my protection within the scene, and [the cameraman] stated, ‘I’m not capturing her immediately. Her eyes are too puffy.'”
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Melanie Lynskey stated earlier this 12 months {that a} member of manufacturing body-shamed her on the Yellowjackets set: “They have been asking me, ‘What do you propose to do? I’m positive the producers will get you a coach. They’d love that can assist you with this.’”
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Final 12 months, Jessie Cave recalled how a fancy dress director as soon as grabbed her abdomen, “Which was simply horrible. And I laughed. You’re like [she puts on a placating voice]: ‘Oh, you’re hurting me. Truly, it’s high-quality.’” Consequently, Jessie will now go into fittings feeling “terrified”: “I’m ready to be instructed one thing unkind.”
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Jennifer Lawrence stated in 2017 that earlier in her profession, she was requested to lose 15 kilos in two weeks by a producer. “Throughout this time, a feminine producer had me do a nude line-up with about 5 ladies who have been a lot, a lot thinner than me. All of us stood side-by-side with solely tape on protecting our privates,” she defined.
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Amy Schumer was requested to drop some pounds for her personal film, Trainwreck. “The one change was that it was defined to me earlier than I did that film [was] that in the event you weigh over 140 kilos as a lady in Hollywood, in the event you’re on the display screen it’s going to damage individuals’s eyes,” she stated again in 2016.
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Sophie Turner beforehand opened up in regards to the pressures of being on display screen from a younger age, saying in 2017, “There are occasions when I’ve completed jobs they usually’ve instructed me that I’ve to drop some pounds, even when it has nothing to do with the character — it’s so fucked up.”
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Margaret Cho was instructed by ABC within the ’90s that she was “too chubby” to play herself. “I ended up hospitalized with kidney failure from not consuming,” she recalled again in 2015.
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Chloë Grace Moretz stated she was body-shamed by a male costar when she was simply 15 and he was mid-20s. “This man that was my love curiosity was like, ‘I would by no means date you in actual life,’ and I used to be like, ‘What?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you are too massive for me,'” she defined in 2017. “It was one of many solely actors that ever made me cry on set.”
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Emma Thompson stated that she virtually stop the 2008 film Brideshead Revisited after her feminine costar was requested to drop some pounds. “It’s evil what’s going on on the market, and it’s getting worse,” she stated in 2017.
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Debra Messing stated a number of years in the past that, on the set of the film A Stroll within the Clouds in 1995, director Alfonso Arau instructed her, “How shortly can we get a plastic surgeon in right here? Her nostril is ruining my film.” She additional alleged that the director made her do an unplanned nude scene.
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Kate Beckinsale stated final 12 months of her expertise on Pearl Harbor, “There have been weight loss program plans and train regimens that [were] actually punishing. [They] actually baffled me as a result of I couldn’t perceive why a ’40s nurse wanted to work out that a lot. It was only a entire totally different scenario.”
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Lastly, Minnie Driver revealed in 2017 that she was instructed by Harvey Weinstein that she was “simply not fuckable” when he produced Good Will Looking. She ended up being Oscar-nominated for her function, regardless of Weinstein saying she wasn’t “sizzling sufficient” for the half.