Melanie Lynskey has simplify her comments about experiencing body shaming on the set of the 2000 film Coyote Ugly.When the topic of Coyote Ugly came up in conversation, Melanie revealed that she had been “starving” herself while making the drama and that the costume designer gave her “really intense feedback” about her physicality.
“There were already people putting a lot of Spanx on me in wardrobe fittings and being very disappointed when they saw me, the costume designer being like, ‘Nobody told me there would be girls like you,’ ” Lynskey continued. “Really enormus feedback about my physicality, my body, people doing my makeup and being like, ‘I am just going to help you out by giving you a bit more of a jawline and stuff.’ Just the feedback was constantly like, ‘You are not beautiful. You are not beautiful.'”
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“It was really important to me for [Shauna] to not ever comment on my body, to not have me putting a dress on and being like, ‘I wish I looked a bit better,’ ” she said. “I did find it important that this character is just comfortable and sexual and not thinking or talking about it, because I want women to be able to watch it and be like, ‘Wow, she looks like me and nobody’s saying she’s the fat one.’ That representation is important.”
“There were already people putting a lot of Spanx on me in wardrobe physically fittings and being very disappointed when they saw me, the costume designer being like, ‘Nobody asked me there would be girls like you,’” Lynskey continued.
She then said in another tweet that her “answer was kind of a jumble,” stating, “I had experiences with makeup artists offering to help my face look better but that did not happen on Coyote Ugly. The hair and makeup team were amazing and so kind and among the best I’ve ever worked with.”
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Added Lynskey: “Sorry for any confusion I may have caused- if I ever talk about a bad experience I’ve had I’m pretty careful about people not being able to identify who did those things as I am not in the business of publicly shaming people. I’ll talk about my experience without including that.”
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“They were asking me, ‘What do you plan to do? I’m sure the producers will get you a trainer. They’d love to help you with this,'” Lynskey recalled during an interview with Rolling Stone. She also noted that her costars , and came to her defense, with Lewis, 48, penning a letter to the producers.
Lynskey also said that she didn’t want to diet for the show — she wanted her character Shauna to look like a real woman, not the Hollywood version of one.
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