#and hollywood preferring fat suits or making a thin actor gain weight before they’ll even look at a fat person

[samaspic31]

Never have i felt rage worse than when i learned carrie fisher was sent to a fat farm, on the demand of fox studio executivess who put it as condition to have her cast cause they insisted on someone thinner (hi casting practices are deeply evil in fatphobic transphobic and racist ways- and that has only mildly improved since the fucking 70s) prior to filming a new hope, to lose 10 pounds, which was far from an exceptional practice in the film industry at the time. And lucas told it in the film bonuses with no shame or apology, they even interviewed carrie about it as if that was some fun anecdote-fuck lucasfilm all the way off for that. And to this day dieting for roles in blockbusters still is the norm (remember that anecdote of her telling john boyega to go break his diet and eat an energy bar from her fridge on the set of the sequels 30 years later ? we progress so fucking slowly)

In general Hollywood obsession/morbid fascination with actors modifying their weight to unhealthy degrees for roles sucks and so does the way journalism and the audience feed the mythos and reward those movies with press and promo about it (still haunted by that star trek press tour where benebitch cabbagepatch was asked continously about dieting for a scene not even in the movie, meanwhile the female actress who had a gratuitous scene in underwear it was just a normal thing, hello gender inequality). anyways as soon as i hear an actor had to diet i lose interest in ever paying for the media. no movie or series is worth the human suffering and its prevalence is yet another symptom of the dishonesty of art under capitalism

#some performance art that’s only lowkey commodified are a different thing #but omg stop making actors go without water for 3days for goddamn shirtless scenes people with fat exist and deserve to be seen on camera #this isn’t even touching the discrimination actually fat actors face #and hollywood preferring fat suits or making a thin actor gain weight before they’ll even look at a fat person #christian bale i am not impressed with your abs go drink something. idc about comic accuracy those are camp homosexual drawings #not beauty standards #im still mad about how the internet behaved about shirtless wolverine and thor #and the les mis disaster where the dehydration damaged the singing #diet culture #cw diet culture #star wars #carrie fisher #also the whole sexualizing layer with the no underwear and then rotj bikini #she had to diet for that too mark hamill still remebers they were anxious about their weight on the set of the jabba palace scene. obviousl #carrie more cause. fucking bikini #i hate lucas for how much he compromised #and how much he preseneted sw as indie/anti big studio while bending for them at the cost of his actors' health #the film industry being unethical pt294357 #cast fat and middle sized bodied people challenge #original trilogy #cw fatphobia #cw fat shaming #anti fatphobia #cw anti fa