Titanic and I Am Ruth actor Kate Winslet reflected on the early days of her career, when she was told to settle for “fat girl” parts as a young performer in acting school.
Winslet said that she was told to settle for “fat girl” parts when she was a young performer in acting school, and it didn’t get much better once she came to Hollywood. Even when she started booking big-screen roles, her agent was often asked: “How’s her weight?”
“But in the film industry it is really changing. When I was younger my agent would get calls saying, ‘How’s her weight?’ I kid you not. So it’s heartwarming that this has started to change,” she explained.Winslet has long been outspoken against Hollywood pressures put on women to be a certain size and beauty standard on screen.
“Listen, I hope that in playing Mare as a middle-aged woman… I guess that’s why people have connected with this character in the way that they have done because there are clearly no filters,” she told“She’s a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from.”
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