Woes of plus-sized actress in Hollywood: 'The way I look can often be the point of me being there'

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Hollywood's latest trend is diversity and from strong female characters to disabled superheroes to Asian representation and even gay romantic comedies, it's clear that showbiz is attempting to showcase stories beyond that of the white male perspective. However, one area in which they might probably be lacking is creating a space for plus-sized people. It's an open secret that showbiz...

Dierdre Friel, who plays Greta on Apple TV+'s Physical, shares more about being plus-sized in Hollywood.Hollywood's latest trend is diversity and from strong female characters to disabled superheroes to Asian representation and even gay romantic comedies, it's clear that showbiz is attempting to showcase stories beyond that of the white male perspective.It's an open secret that showbiz panders to a certain type of beauty and conventionally attractive people.

Dierdre added: "But I love this show for the fact... that I'm grateful [for] the way we're talking about it. We're talking about eating disorders in a very open way that I've never seen talked about before. And we're celebrating people who look, you know, all sorts of different ways."also pointed out to AsiaOne: "I feel like there is a general movement to try to have more variety and diversity — body diversity, gender diversity — in our field...

In a separate interview with AsiaOne, Annie shared: "One of our goals this season was to really authentically demonstrate how eating disorders are actually often misunderstood as really being about the disordered eating behaviour itself, and not about the core issues.

 

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