‘I Was Already Starving Myself’

In an interview for The Hollywood Reporter, the “Yellowjackets” star opened up about how snug folks have been body-shaming her on the set of the 2000 movie “Coyote Ugly.”

She recalled a fancy dress designer her after they’d put her into Spanx to attempt to obtain no matter physique commonplace they have been in search of and saying, “No person advised me there can be ladies such as you.”

“Actually intense suggestions about my physicality, my physique, folks doing my make-up and being like, ‘I’m simply going that can assist you out by supplying you with a bit extra of a jawline and stuff.,'” Lynskey stated.

She stated it felt like she was simply getting the identical suggestions time and again: “You are not lovely. You are not lovely.”

“In your early 20s, a lot of it’s about magnificence, and the way folks reply to you, and do folks wish to f— you?” she famous.

However it wasn’t simply Lynskey, who performed the traditional “greatest pal” position, that was beneath that microscope. She recalled “the scrutiny that was on Piper [Perabo], who’s one of many coolest, smartest ladies, simply the best way folks have been speaking about her physique, speaking about her look, specializing in what she was consuming.”

Lynskey stated the entire ladies within the solid have been on a strict routine. “I used to be already ravenous myself and as skinny as I may probably be for this physique, and I used to be nonetheless a [size] 4,” she stated.

Sadly, 22 years later and a #MeToo motion and Lynskey discovered herself dealing with a lot the identical factor on the set of the hit Showtime collection.

Again in January, Lynskey advised Rolling Stone {that a} member of the “Yellowjackets” manufacturing group had requested her, “What do you intend to do? I am positive the producers provides you with a coach. They’d love that can assist you with this.”

She stated she additionally obtained some flak on social media for her character’s assured sexuality and the very fact she by no means talks about her physique, which is one thing that was essential to Lynskey together with her interpretation of grownup Shauna.

“I did discover it necessary that this character is simply snug and sexual and never considering or speaking about it, as a result of I would like ladies to have the ability to to observe it and be like, ‘Wow, she seems like me and no one’s saying she’s the fats one,'” she defined. “That illustration is necessary.”

“Yellowjackets” has been renewed for a second season on Showtime.