{"id":35386,"date":"2022-08-04T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melanie-lynskey-says-she-was-body-shamed-filming-coyote-ugly\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:15:50","slug":"melanie-lynskey-says-she-was-body-shamed-filming-coyote-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melanie-lynskey-says-she-was-body-shamed-filming-coyote-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Lynskey says she was body-shamed filming ‘Coyote Ugly’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cYellowjackets\u201d star Melanie Lynskey candidly recalled the body-shaming she and other actresses faced while filming the 2000 movie \u201cCoyote Ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the girls had this regimen they had to go on. It was ridiculous,\u201d the actress told The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cI was already starving myself and as thin as I could possibly be for this body, and I was still a [size] four.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynskey, now 45, played Gloria, a woman who was the best friend of actress Piper Perabo’s character, Violet, in the movie. The \u201cDon’t Look Up\u201d actress said she faced harsh criticism from the flick’s original costume designer, makeup artist and more while she was filming. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere were already people putting a lot of Spanx on me in wardrobe fittings and being very disappointed when they saw me, the costume designer being like, ‘Nobody told me there would be girls like you,’\u201d Lynskey continued. <\/p>\n

\u201cReally intense feedback about my physicality, my body, people doing my makeup and being like, ‘I’m just going to help you out by giving you a bit more of a jawline and stuff.’ Just the feedback was constantly like, ‘You’re not beautiful. You’re not beautiful.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was already starving myself and as thin as I could possibly be for this body, and I was still a [size] four,\u201d she told THR.<\/figcaption>
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Lynskey later clarified that the costume designer credited on the movie was not the person she was referring to in her comments. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe costume designer who initially worked on Coyote Ugly left for some reason, & a lovely kind woman named Marlene Stewart took over and she was AWESOME,\u201d Lynskey tweeted<\/a> Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Lynskey played the best friend of lead actress Piper Perabo in the 2000 movie.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThe first person was mean, the person credited was not,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAnd my answer was kind of a jumble \u2013 I had experiences with makeup artists offering to help my face look better but that did not happen on Coyote Ugly. The hair and makeup team were amazing and so kind and among the best I’ve ever worked with.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the body-shaming did not stop in the early 2000s. <\/p>\n

In January, Lynskey revealed that she faced a similar situation with a crew member while filming Showtime’s \u201cYellowjackets\u201d recently. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey were asking me, ‘What do you plan to do? I’m sure the producers will get you a trainer. They’d love to help you with this,’\u201d she told Rolling Stone. <\/p>\n

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Lynskey faced a similar body-shaming incident on the set of \u201cYellowjackets.\u201d <\/figcaption>
\u00a9Showtime Networks Inc.\/Courtes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The actress’ co-star Juliette Lewis found out about the interaction and wrote a letter to production on Lynskey’s behalf. <\/p>\n

\u201cI want women to be able to watch [\u2018Yellowjackets\u2019] and be like, ‘Wow, she looks like me and nobody’s saying she’s the fat one.’ That representation is important,\u201d Lynskey concluded. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n