London March 29 (IANS) Actress Emma Thompson said she once threatened to leave a movie after a producer asked her co-star to lose some weight.
She was discussing the pressure for actresses to be thin in Hollywood while on the talk show Skavlan last week reports people.com.
There was a wonderful actress in a film I did called Brideshead Revisited she remembered of the 2008 film.
The producer said to her ‘Will you lose some weight? And she was absolutely exquisite!
That s when Thompson decided to intervene.
I said to them If you speak to her about this again on any level I will leave this picture. You are never to do that she revealed.
For Thompson the incident was emblematic of a larger problem in show business.
It s evil what s happening and what s going on there and it s getting worse. The French fashion industry said they would get rid of size zero and then you know they didn t she said.
The anorexia -- there s so many kids girls and boys now and actresses who are very very thin into their 30s who simply don t eat. They don t eat...Sometimes there are just some subjects that you absolutely have to make noise about because it s so tedious and it s gone on and on she added.
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When Emma Thompson threatened to quit a film
