{"id":1526962,"date":"2022-06-23T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526962"},"modified":"2022-06-23T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:05:07","slug":"almost-no-fat-big-name-stars-stranger-things-star-says-fat-actors-arent-allowed-upward-mobility-in-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/almost-no-fat-big-name-stars-stranger-things-star-says-fat-actors-arent-allowed-upward-mobility-in-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Almost No Fat Big Name Stars\u2019: Stranger Things Star Says \u2018Fat Actors Aren\u2019t Allowed Upward Mobility\u2019 In Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falmost-no-fat-big-name-stars-stranger-things-star-says-fat-actors-arent-allowed-upward-mobility-in-industry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former \u201cStranger Things\u201d star Shannon Purser slammed the entertainment industry, which she accused of not allowing \u201cfat actors\u201d any \u201cupward mobility,\u201d saying that there are \u201calmost no fat big name stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old actress seemed to take issue with a recent release of a preview showing actress Emma Thompson in the supporting role of the upcoming Netflix film \u201cMatilda: The Musical\u201d wearing what appeared to be a fat suit, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/actress-accuses-hollywood-limiting-fat-actors?fs=e&#038;s=cl\">Washington Examiner<\/a>\u00a0reported in a piece published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re [Entertainment Industry] not hiring fat actors for iconic fat characters because they want a big name star,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shannonpurser\/status\/1539010765402689536?s=20&#038;t=w5EJvrxrAj63I5O5lVZAWQ\">Purser tweeted<\/a> recently to her hundreds of thousands of followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are almost no fat big name stars because fat actors aren\u2019t allowed upward mobility,\u201d she added. \u201cWe aren\u2019t allowed upward mobility because the industry sees us as two-dimensional set pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">they\u2019re not hiring fat actors for iconic fat characters because they want a big name star. there are almost no fat big name stars because fat actors aren\u2019t allowed upward mobility. we aren\u2019t allowed upward mobility because the industry sees us as two-dimensional set pieces.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shannon (@shannonpurser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shannonpurser\/status\/1539010765402689536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thompson being cast for the role of Miss Trunchbull in the film has caused some backlash against the star, whose appearance in the fat suit has been labeled \u201cgross\u201d and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/1630134\/Emma-Thompson-Matilda-fat-suit-agatha-trunchbull-offensive-woke-fans-new-film-latest-news\">Express UK<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>To take on the role of the cruel headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School, the actress slipped into a fat suit to make her body size fit the character\u2019s description in the children\u2019s book by Roald Dahl. The actress also wore several prosthetics that completely changed her appearance as well.<\/p>\n<p>FatBodyPolitics <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FatBodyPolitics\/status\/1537614996758315009?s=20&#038;t=jrSmeRu3PHqiVpslXS4rdQ\">tweeted<\/a>, \u201cI can\u2019t believe someone would agree to put a thin person into this costume for Matilda the musical.\u00a0The original was already fat phobic enough but now they put Emma Thompson into a fat suit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetroOpinion\/status\/1538914428221112321?s=20&#038;t=XYwk50x_BZIiLK4o0QEaKA\">Columnist Emmie Harrison-West<\/a> wrote an op-ed titled, \u201cDo we really need another skinny actress in a fat suit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course \u2014 how else would the film industry portray an antagonist, who is evil, ugly and has a nasty disposition, than with a slim actress in a grotesque fat suit?\u201d Harrison-West wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet, fat suits have been so normalized that some people probably haven\u2019t even noticed \u2014 and that is what is so frustrating,\u201d the writer added.<\/p>\n<p>One person tweeted, \u201cReally disheartening to see such a beautiful woman having to go to such measures for a role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I thought we were getting more progressive as a society. But this is just backwards. So hideous,\u201d another wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has yet to respond to the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former \u201cStranger Things\u201d star Shannon Purser slammed the entertainment industry, which she accused of not allowing \u201cfat actors\u201d any \u201cupward mobility,\u201d saying that there are \u201calmost no fat big name stars.\u201d The 24-year-old actress seemed to take issue with a recent release of a preview showing actress Emma Thompson in the supporting role of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1527084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}