To think this is wrong on so many different levels?

[WorraLiberty]

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

[Trills]

I imagine that she chose to wear a revealing dress to generate interest regarding the film.

She may even have been told (asked) to wear something that made it clear how much weight she had lost so that newspapers would write about the film and we would talk about it.

I wouldn't have known that this film existed if not for this thread.

[Nancy66]

She's anorexic. She's always been painfully thin - now she can justify it.

I haven't got a problem with actors losing/gaining weight for roles, it's part of their job.

[FolkGhoul]

"I will suffer as much as she did"

I think that's more shocking, tbh.

How offensive!

[Trills]

She's anorexic.

You can't diagnose a mental illness by reading gossip magazines.

[DuelingFanjo]

The film has already been made hasn't it? IMO she was always too skinny and possibly has an eating disorder.

[geegee888]

She is too thin but would probably recover quite quickly without any long term ill effects if normal eating patterns were resumed. However, many many people in this country are overweight and risking their health by being so, by being more prone to heart disease and other diseases caused by high cholestorol and lack of exercise (my father died in his early fifties for these very reasons), or by smoking or drinking too much, and there seems to be some sort of conspiracy only to attack the slightly too thin...

[WorraLiberty]

Oh I totally agree geegee...though not about the conspiracy.

I'd feel the same if she had to become rapidly obese for the role or if she took up smoking for it.

[Nancy66]

who reads gossip mags?

It's obvious from looking at her. Same as it was obvious from looking at Charlotte Coleman, same as it's obvious from looking at Sally Hawkin.

[Trills]

OK then, you can't diagnose anorexia from looking at a picture of a person.

[Nancy66]

Yep. Shoot me if I'm wrong.

[Jins]

The most extreme version of this that I've seen was Michael Fassbender in Hunger. He lost 16kg apparently and weighed 9 stone for some of the scenes.

www.thesqueee.co.uk/2012/01/hunger-2008.html

Now it was a gritty, hard to watch film in all respects but the close ups of his naked torso were horrific.

Not sure how you convincingly depict a hunger striker on the point of death with a normal weight actor though although I'd much preferred that they had

[Hullygully]

i dunno

[Trills]

CGI maybe?

Captain America they were going to CGI the tall buff actor's head onto a short weedy body, but the body language wasn't right, so they CGI-ed his entire body.

I guess a kidnapping drama doesn't have the same kind of CGI budget (or the same sort of people doing the thinking) as a comic book action film.

[trice]

If she resumes eating normally and gets up to a size 6 in the next six months I will be pleased for her.

[WorraLiberty]

Jeez that is extreme Jins

[EnjoyVampirebloodResponsibly]

Renege Zellweger did the opposite (fooled by dramatic weight loss post-filming) to play Bridget Jones.

BJ is a fictional character. I'm alarmed as alarmed by Campbell-Hughes as I felt at the time about Bridget. The alleged Olivier comment, even if its not true, serves to highlight the vanity of the film business.

[WitchesTitWhistles]

Yes it's awful. But Christian Bale did the same for the machinist, then went on to play a stacked Batman, with no apparent ill effects.

But then he never went out to a very public event dressed in a skimpy backless dress.

I have worked extensively with people with eating disorders and would reckon her BMi to be about 12-14, she certainly shouldn't be out at all but definitely not without a coat.