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Now the lovely Kunis is throwing on the pounds to look a bit chunkier for her role as an auto repair shop worker in Blood Ties. We all know only “fat” girls work in auto repair, right? What?! Meanwhile, Anne Hathaway recently had to go on a diet of 500 calories a day. She was only given fifteen to twenty days to drastically drop her weight by 16 pounds to get that emaciated peasant look for her role in Les Miserables–ridiculous! (Not to mention dangerous.)
Since when did being fat or skinny define who anyone was? She’s shy, sad, angry–so she must be kind of fat. Um, no. We get that in Anne’s case poverty may equate to thinness, but Anne was already thin.
And whatever happened to suspension of disbelief? If I can believe Spiderman got super powers from a radioactive spider, I think I can suspend my belief to accept Anne Hathaway is a peasant at a healthy size 6 and Mila Kunis can work at an auto-repair shop without being chunky.
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Did that mean actress January Jones who portrays Betty had to pack on the pounds? Of course not, she wore prosthetics which were magnificently done. Betty/January looked bigger without gaining weight. Remember in the movie 300 all those big buff Greeks battling each other? Those abs were added on with CGI special effects.
It was fine. No one would look at Anne Hathaway’s body from a few months ago on Les Miserable and say, “OMG she is too fat to be a peasant!” The same way we wouldn’t watch Spiderman and think, “This scientifically makes no sense!” Movies are fantasies. And weight isn’t a character trait.
Do you think it’s cool when actors/actresses change their weight for roles? Let us know in the comments!
Anne Hathaway wasn’t just trying to look like a peasant, her character is starving to death. It mattered…
the issue with this, is simple. When actresses sign up to do a job they sign up to basically do whatever their directors and producers say. Hollywood has always been like this, it shouldn’t be seen as shocking at all. I am not in the entertainment business but recently auditioned for my college color guard and after making the guard was told immediately after making the team that basically everyone needed to loose some weight for me, 15 lbs. the thing is, you go into these things knowing what you are getting yourself into immediately so I don’t see why everyone constantly makes such a big deal out of holly wood weight. The actors and actresses know what they are doing. The Anne Hathaway deal is valid though peasants of the time were not going to have that perfect, beautiful body that nature and personal trainers gave her. Hollywood makes an attempt to really portray the story as realistically as possible when it comes to the looks of each character and there are some things that CGI just can’t do.
I effing hate Hollywood. They can honestly suck my lady dick.
I’m overweight, and and very happy. And celebrities should be allowed to too.
Not at all