Emma Thompson condemns ‘evil’ pressure on actresses to be thin

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Emma Thompson has branded the pressure put on actresses to be thin as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;evil” and said the problem is getting worse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two-time Oscar-winner said she knew female stars who &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;simply don’t eat” as she spoke about anorexia in the film industry&period; Emma&comma; 57&comma; revealed she once threatened to quit the 2008 British film Brideshead Revisited when a co-star was told to lose weight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview on Swedish chat show Skavlan&comma; she said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The anorexia – there are so many kids&comma; girls and boys now&comma; and actresses who are very&comma; very thin&comma; who are into their 30s&comma; who simply don’t eat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;IMG&lowbar;1465&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;IMG&lowbar;1465-1024x568&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"355" class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-109838" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There was a wonderful actress I was working with on something called Brideshead Revisited&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The producers said to her&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Will you lose some weight&quest;’&period; She was absolutely exquisite&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I said to them&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;If you speak to her about this again&comma; on any level&comma; I will leave this picture&period; You are never to do that’&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s evil&comma; what’s happening&comma; what’s going on out there&comma; and it’s getting worse&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Emma said one of the reasons she had never moved to Los Angeles was because she felt she was deemed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;too fat” when she visited&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is a strange place and I couldn’t live there&comma;” she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed97bfc8bcf">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed97bfc8bcf'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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