Emma Thompson has revealed that she nearly walked off the set of a movie because of remarks made to one of her fellow actors.
The Beauty and the Beast star said that there was a moment when she threatened to quit a film after a female co-star was body shamed and asked to lose weight.
“There was a wonderful actress in a film I did called Brideshead Revisited and the producer said to her, ‘Would you lose some weight?’ and she was exquisite and 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’.”
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In an interview with Swedish chat show Skavlan last week, the 57-year-old continued, “Every time I go to LA I think ‘Oh god I am too fat to go there’
“I think they are saying to me when I arrive ‘You are fat and you are old. Go home’. LA is so mad and so hostile. It is a very strange place and I could not live there.”
The Brit also touched on the problem of people “simply not eating” anymore because of the fashion industry.
“The French fashion industry said they would get rid of size zero and then, you know, they didn’t. 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.”
