Emma Thompson has criticised Hollywood for the pressure it puts on female actors to be thin, saying that she almost quit Brideshead Revisited because another actor was asked by the film’s producers to lose weight.
Thompson didn’t reveal the name of the actor, but confirmed that she confronted producers of the film over the issue.
“There was a wonderful actress I was working with on Brideshead Revisited, and the producers said, ‘Will you lose some weight?’
Brideshead Revisited, a film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel of the same name, was released in 2008 and starred Thompson, Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell.