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1. In 1 of Variety's caller Actors connected Acting interviews, Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she was pressured to suffer value for The Hunger Games. "I retrieve the biggest speech was, ‘How overmuch value are you going to lose?'" she told Viola Davis. "Along with maine being young and increasing and not capable to beryllium connected a diet, I don’t cognize if I privation each of the girls who are going to formal up arsenic Katniss to consciousness similar they can’t due to the fact that they’re not a definite weight. And I can’t fto that seep into my encephalon either."
2. Bryce Dallas Howard is simply a staple of the Jurassic World films — but adjacent with her proven prima power, she was asked to suffer value for the 3rd film. "[I’ve] been asked to not usage my earthy assemblage successful cinema," she told Metro, alluding to the information that she'd been asked to suffer value for the preceding 2 films arsenic well. "The speech came up again: 'We request to inquire Bryce to suffer weight.'" However, she said manager Colin Trevorrow stood up for her, and emphasized that "there are tons of antithetic kinds of women connected this planet, and determination are tons of antithetic kinds of women successful our film."
3. When Florence Pugh was formed successful Studio City astatine property 19, she was told not lone to suffer weight, but to alteration her face. This made her reconsider her vocation choice. “All the things that they were trying to alteration astir maine — whether it was my weight, my look, the signifier of my face, the signifier of my eyebrows — that was truthful not what I wanted to do, oregon the manufacture I wanted to enactment in." The amusement was not picked up, and Pugh ended up having a overmuch amended acquisition successful her adjacent role, successful Lady Macbeth.
4. For her relation successful Yellowjackets, Melanie Lynskey was not asked to suffer weight, but she did woody with uncomfortable comments from a accumulation unit subordinate astir her weight. "They were asking me, 'What bash you program to do? I'm definite the producers volition get you a trainer. They'd emotion to assistance you with this.'" Lynskey said she ignored the comments, and recovered it important for women to subordinate to her and spot a quality who feels comfy successful her assemblage and sexy.
5. Amy Schumer was besides pressured to suffer value for the movie she wrote and starred in, Trainwreck. "It was explained to maine earlier I did that movie that if you measurement implicit 140 pounds arsenic a pistillate successful Hollywood, that...if you're connected the surface it volition wounded people's eyes," she said successful an interview. "So I mislaid immoderate value to bash that, but ne'er again." She said they had her enactment with a trainer and gave her a strict fare (which she said had "no food" for immoderate meals), but that it lone caused her to suffer 3 pounds.
6. Margaret Cho was besides pressured to suffer value for All-American Girl. She was told she "was excessively overweight to play the portion of [herself]." She past drastically decreased her nutrient intake, and aboriginal ended up successful the infirmary with kidney nonaccomplishment from "not eating."
7. When Henry Cavill auditioned to play James Bond erstwhile helium was 21 (a relation that went to Daniel Craig), the manager pulled him aside and said thing on the lines of, "Look, buddy, you’re astatine a Bond surface test. The adjacent clip you travel to a surface test, truly absorption connected making definite you crook implicit if it’s for thing similar Bond." Cavill said helium was "by nary means plump, but I astir apt gained immoderate other value by taking disconnected my garment successful beforehand of the camera" — thing he's ever disliked doing.
8. Chris Pratt was originally told helium was "too fat" to play Scott Hatteberg successful Moneyball — causing him to crook to clang dieting, running, and cutting intoxicant successful bid to suffer weight. “That was the archetypal clip I heard idiosyncratic say, ‘We’re not gonna formed you — you’re excessively fat," helium told Vanity Fair.
9. Patricia Arquette was asked to suffer value for Medium, and said it made her consciousness "annoyed and crappy. But I consciousness similar it's been a speech my full life. When True Romance came out, immoderate critics said I was excessively abdominous oregon excessively heavy." However, she was capable to leverage her acquisition arsenic a movie prima to combat backmost against these requests. "I was successful presumption of powerfulness and could say, 'On True Romance, Tony Scott ne'er made maine consciousness similar that. What are you saying? That each joined pistillate has to look a definite way? [My character] has 3 kids. It's astir a marriage, not a modelling competition.'"
10. When David Harbour auditioned to play the Blob successful an X-Men film, helium jokingly showed his tummy and said, "I got your blob close here!" Afterward, helium was called into a gathering with the director, wherever helium was told, "David, look, you’re wonderful, we truly deliberation you’re conscionable a large actor, we’re conscionable acrophobic ... you lifted up your garment and we saw the… We’re conscionable a small disquieted astir your health.” Harbour continued, “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, dude, intermission for 1 second. You are telling maine I’m excessively abdominous to play The Blob?'" He didn't get the role.
11. Carrie Fisher was told to suffer value erstwhile she was archetypal formed successful the Star Wars series. “They privation to prosecute portion of me, not each of me. So they privation to prosecute astir three-fourths, truthful I person to get escaped of the 4th somehow," Fisher revealed. "The archetypal movie I had, I conjecture you’d inactive telephone it babe fat." She weighed 105 pounds, and was told to suffer 10.
12. She was besides pressured to suffer value for her instrumentality successful The Force Awakens — specifically, 35 pounds. “Nothing changes, it’s an appearance-driven thing," she said. I’m successful a concern wherever the lone happening that matters is value and appearance. It’s truthful messed up. They mightiness arsenic good accidental get younger due to the fact that that’s however casual it is.”
13. Pearl Harbor manager Michael Bay asked the film's star, Kate Beckinsale, to suffer value for the film. "It wasn’t great," Beckinsale said. "It didn’t marque maine consciousness good, and successful general, I deliberation women are body-shamed 100 cardinal percent much than men."
14. Kirsten Dunst was besides asked to suffer value for The Beguiled by its director, Sofia Coppola. Dunst refused, saying, “I’m eating fried chickenhearted and McDonald’s earlier work. So I’m like, ‘We person nary options! I’m atrocious I can’t suffer value for this role.’”
15. Queen Latifah revealed to Entertainment Tonight that she — on with the remainder of the formed of Living Single — were pressured to suffer value portion the amusement was airing. "Here we are, 4 antithetic women, 4 antithetic assemblage types, and we needed to suffer weight. ... It truly angered me. I said, 'We are what women look like, we're not going to suffer value for whoever's thought of what we're expected to look like.''"
16. Hayley Atwell was pressured to suffer value for Brideshead Revisited. Emma Thompson, who besides starred successful the film, defended Atwell, telling the studio/producer, ’If you talk to her astir this again, connected immoderate level, I volition permission this picture. You are ne'er to bash that.'” In the end, Miramax "accepted" Atwell "for who [she] was." Speaking astir Thompson's support, Atwell said, "if I’ve ever had an insecurity astir myself successful this industry, Emma ever has an astonishing quality to accidental thing to enactment it each into position truthful that you don’t hatred yourself."
17. Rafe Spall was asked to suffer value for I Give It a Year. "It was made wide to maine that I needed to suffer value successful bid to bash the film. And so, a trainer was laid on. I trained doubly a time for 13 weeks to look similar a 'normal guy,'" helium said. "It wasn’t similar I was playing a superhero oregon immoderate — I was playing a mean guy.’
18. Universal Pictures president Rob Meyer asked Jason Segel to suffer value for The Five-Year Engagement. "I was told that it had to beryllium conceivable that Emily Blunt would ever take maine to beryllium her husband. Which is fair," Segel told David Letterman. He mislaid 35 pounds for his relation successful the film.
19. Kate Winslet was often pressured by tabloids to suffer value aboriginal successful her career, and her cause was often asked, “How’s her weight?” successful notation to imaginable roles. When she starred successful Mare of Easttown, she was not told to suffer weight, but manager Craig Zobel did suggest that helium could region her “bulgy spot of belly” from a enactment scene. Winslet refused, stressing that radical link with the quality due to the fact that determination are "no filters."
20. In the mid-2000s, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was told to suffer value — and halt going to the gym — arsenic portion of an effort to shed his wrestling past. "Well, you bargain into that shit, arsenic I did, until — 1 of 2 things was going to happen," Johnson said. "You're either going to proceed to spell down that roadworthy and that path, and you're going to beryllium miserable. And yet your vocation is astir apt going to fizzle retired and it's not going to person immoderate consciousness of longevity oregon prime to it."
21. Richard Madden has besides been pressured to suffer value for "numerous roles," saying, "It doesn’t conscionable hap to women." Madden dislikes portraying "unrealistic assemblage image," and says his peers do, too: "I find myself with histrion friends — aft we've done a benignant of hardly eating, working-out-twice-a-day, no-carbing happening for these scenes — looking astatine each different going: 'We're conscionable feeding this aforesaid s**t that we're against.'"
22. And finally, Viola Davis was pressured to suffer value aboriginal successful her career. She was constantly told astatine Julliard that she was "too fat" and "heavy."
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