This actress here 'Antonia Campbell-Hughes' is looking gaunt and nearly dead imo to play the role of Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch in the film 3096.
She's risking her life to play a leading role in a film and god knows what irreparable damage she may do to her body long term?
Now many brave people risk their lives in their jobs every day...Police, Army, Fire fighters to name but a few...but to do this to yourself to play a film role -why? 
Am I alone in thinking that as much as the victim Natascha Kampusch deserves to have her story told...expecting and encouraging anyone to do that to their body in order to play her role is just wrong?
On top of that, this quote actually made me feel sick..."Antonia was cast in the role in April, and in June she told the Evening Standard that she was really committed to playing Natascha. The one thing that I have been adamant about is that I am playing a character in a script,? she said. ?It?s not a biopic or a case study. But playing someone real, you feel you have to give a bit more. There was an understanding from the beginning that I would suffer as much as she did
Errr no you can never 'suffer' as much as Natascha Kampusch did because you're an actress. You were not kidnapped when you were ten years old, and starved and beaten by Wolfgang Priklopil, who kept you in the cellar of his house in Austria for 3096 days before you escaped
And check out 50 cents too at the bottom of the link. He lost 4 stone in just 9 weeks to play a cancer victim...by living on a liquid diet.
Am I being unreasonable in thinking that as much as the characters in the films went through hell and should be portrayed as accurately as possible, no-one should be putting their life at risk to play the roles?
www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/antonia-campbell-hughes-shows-off-shocking-weight-1372635
AIBU?
To think this is wrong on so many different levels?
WorraLiberty · 12/10/2012 00:50
That Matthew Mahogany is also looking horrendously gaunt & ill too at the moment. You have to wonder what damage they are doing to themselves.
And yes, what a damn silly thing for that actress to say 
. She sounds a bit precious, to be honest.
That kind of weight loss would increase her risk of osteoporosis, surely?
I think women should wear whatever they want, whatever their size, but it's so shocking to see her so thin wearing that dress that really emphasises her thinness. Still, it will get publicity for the film, and that's what matters most
I didn't realise this thread actually posted because as soon as I hit 'post' last night, the broadband went out.
But yes, I agree she would have lost the weight under the close eye of a nutritionist...however no-one knows what long term damage any of those actors have done.
And I hope she was misquoted when she said there was an understanding that she would suffers as much as Natascha 
Yes Trills, she wrote a book apparently saying that she was starved, beaten and raped 
Then again I always do this face at "method acting". You are an actor - just do some pretending.
You don't have to convince yourself that it's really happening to you or that you are really feeling the emotion, you just need to make your face and body look as if it is.
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