It appears not even Princess Leia is nice sufficient for the requirements of Hollywood. A pal of Carrie Fisher lately revealed the actress was pressured into losing a few pounds for her return to the Star Wars universe.
It’s no secret that Hollywood has unrealistic magnificence requirements, particularly in terms of girls’s our bodies. Nevertheless, it appears not even the status of Star Wars is ready to keep off these expectations. Singer James Blunt, who was a pal of Carrie Fisher’s, revealed the actress was pressured to drop extra pounds for her return as Princess Leia.
“I used to be together with her the day earlier than she died, when she got here right down to my home,” Blunt defined at UK’s Hay Pageant. “And he or she’d been actually mistreating her physique, and she or he’d simply acquired the job once more of being Princess Leia in a brand new Star Wars film.”
“So she was actually on a excessive and a optimistic, however they’d utilized plenty of strain on her to be skinny. She spoke concerning the difficulties that girls have within the trade, how males are allowed to develop outdated, and girls are definitely not in movie and TV.”
“And he or she actually put plenty of strain on herself, began utilizing medication once more and by the point she acquired on the aircraft, she had successfully killed herself,” He concluded. “They are saying it was coronary heart failure of some form, however she had taken sufficient medication to have a very good celebration.”
Whereas it’s not possible to inform what precisely led to Carrie Fisher’s tragic passing, it’s a disgrace to be taught that such a beloved actress was pressured to carry her physique to a sure commonplace in her last days. No matter how she was seen by Hollywood, Star Wars followers will all the time keep in mind Fisher as Princess Leia, not due to her physique, however due to the inspiration she gave to followers internationally.
The Stress Of Ladies In Star Wars
Carrie Fisher is much from the one girl who skilled opposed well being results because of her position in Star Wars. Daisy Ridley lately spoke out about how the stress of dealing with her sudden fame made her bodily ailing, solely recovering from the concern and nervousness by the tip of the trilogy.
“Oh, God! Primarily, it was a leaky intestine,” Ridley informed The Occasions. “I used to be simply knackered. I’d by no means travelled that a lot, or completed press junkets, and my physique offers with stress in a really bodily means, so my intestine was manifesting an emotional response to travelling around the globe, individuals saying hiya to me on the street.”
“And me going, ‘What’s occurring?’ And worrying. ‘Oh s–t, ought to or not it’s me?’ or ‘Am I adequate?’ And I solely actually felt I used to be by the third movie, The Rise of Skywalker. By then, I felt, ‘OK, I used to be chosen for a cause.’ Nevertheless it took a very long time. It was tremendous intense.”
Kelly Marie Tran, who performed Rose Tico within the Star Wars universe, was infamously bullied off social media as a result of harassment she skilled by the hands of followers. Even within the greatest franchises, it’s clear girls face an unimaginable quantity of stress each from inside and outdoors of the trade. These experiences, from Carrie Fisher to Daisy Ridley, ought to continually be remembered as a cautionary story about public notion in Hollywood.
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