Kate Winslet is reflecting on how people have responded to her body for much of her career. In an interview with the Sunday Times via Variety, the Oscar and Emmy-winning actor spoke openly about how they told her to settle for “fat girl” parts when she was still in school. Later, when she was a professional actor, studios frequently contacted her agent to ask about her weight.
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“It can be extremely negative,” Winslet told the British newspaper about the female pressure actors tend to face. “People are subject to scrutiny that is more than a young, vulnerable person can cope with. But in the film industry, it is 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.”
Winslet has advocated for better representation of diverse bodies in Hollywood films.
Last year, she told The New York Times that attempts had been made to airbrush her stomach in the HBO show “Mare of Eastown.” When her director offered to cut a scene where Winslet’s character has a “bulgy bit of belly” during the sex scene, she responded with: “Don’t you dare!”
In 2021, Winslet was vocal about the difficulties she experienced due to public opinion of her body after “Titanic” in 1997, calling it “horrible and so upsetting” while speaking to The Guardian.
“In my 20s, people would talk about my weight a lot,” she told the outlet.
“I would be called to comment on my physical self,” she continued. “Then I got this label of being ballsy and outspoken. No, I was just defending myself.”
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