Kate Winslet said her agent was often asked about her weight when she was a young actor.
Kate Winslet revealed in an interview with The Sunday Times that she was told to settle for “fat girl” parts when she was a young performer in acting school. Later on when Winslet started booking movie roles, her agent was often asked the same question: “How’s her weight?”
“It can be extremely negative,” Winslet said about the pressures facing female actors. “People are subject to scrutiny that is more than a young, vulnerable person can cope with. But in the film industry it is really changing. When I was younger my agent would get calls saying, ‘How’s her weight?’ I kid you not. So it’s heartwarming that this has started to change.”
Winslet has long championed normal body types on screen.
