Melanie Lynskey

"Yellowjackets" star Melanie Lynskey hasn't shied away from calling out Hollywood for the body shaming she experienced on film sets, even years after her ...

Luckily, she and her co-stars said, the younger cast members are confident enough to stand up for themselves. Both women said that they'd been typecast as "character actors" and denounced use of the word "quirky" to describe themselves. That was 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.'"

Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Tawny Cypress and Juliette Lewis got candid about the pressures they faced as young actors in Hollywood.

"This is a really remarkable industry to be a part of. Lynskey said she felt protective of young actresses on set and sent them an email early in production showing support. "That’s what I’m unlearning today — to be softer," she said. "All the girls had this regimen they had to go on. "They were asking me, 'What do you plan to do? The show alternates between 1996 and the present day following a high school girls soccer team whose plane crashes and are stranded in the wilderness for 19 months.

Melanie Lynskey didn't hold back about body shaming in Hollywood. The actress, 44, told The Hollywood Reporter she felt pressured to lose weight while on ...

“In your early 20s, so much of it is about beauty, and how people respond to you, and do people want to f— you?” she added. It was ridiculous,” the actress said. You’re not beautiful.’”

"I was already starving myself and as thin as I could possibly be for this body," the actress said of filming the 2000 hit movie.

“I was like, ‘I just need to look the way I’m supposed to look’ and have faith that people are going to want to put someone in a film or on a show who looks like this,” she detailed. “I had eating issues and at a certain point I was like, ‘I’m not going to survive’ — not like I was on death’s door or anything, but I was so unhappy and my hair was falling out.” “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 continued.

The actress recalled the 'intense feedback' she constantly received about her body while on set for the 2000 hit movie.

"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 was very unwell for a long time. She added: "In your early 20s, so much of it is about beauty, and how people respond to you, and do people want to f— you? "Really intense feedback about my physicality, my body, people doing my makeup and being like, 'I'm just going to help you out by giving you a bit more of a jawline and stuff.' Just the feedback was constantly like, 'You're not beautiful. "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. "All the girls had this regimen they had to go on.

I was already starving myself,” the “Yellowjackets” star said of her experience on the set of the 2000 film.

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The New Zealand-born actress starred in the hit 2000's film Coyote Ugly and has now revealed in a interview with The Hollywood Reporter, that it wasn't always ...

I'm the oldest of five and usually at least two of my siblings come visit every year," Lynskey added. She added: "In your early 20s, so much of it is about beauty, and how people respond to you, and do people want to f*** you? The actress, who was a size 4 at the time said: "All the girls had this regimen they had to go on.

Melanie Lynskey revealed she had already been 'starving herself' to get to the size she was but was told to be thinner.

b***h you don’t see me on my Peleton! You don’t see me running through the park with my child. ‘Most egregious are the “I care about her health!!” people… You’re not beautiful.”’

I was already starving myself,” the “Yellowjackets” star said of her experience on the set of the 2000 film.

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“Yellowjackets” star Melanie Lynskey candidly recalled the body-shaming she and other actresses faced while filming the 2000 movie “Coyote Ugly.”.

“And my answer was kind of a jumble – 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.” Lynskey, now 45, played Gloria, a woman who was the best friend of actress Piper Perabo’s character, Violet, in the movie. “All the girls had this regimen they had to go on.

Melanie Lynskey describes the harsh body-shaming she and her co-stars were under while filming "Coyote Ugly" in the year 2000.

“All the girls had this regimen they had to go on.” “Just the feedback was constantly like, ‘You’re not beautiful. “It was ridiculous.

The actor says she received “really intense feedback about my physicality, my body” on the set of the 2000 film.

“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. Lynskey previously alleged that she was also subjected to criticism about her body while filming the now-acclaimed Showtime series. At the time, Lynskey said her co-stars stepped in to defend her, with Lewis reportedly writing a letter to the show’s producers on her behalf. She also clarified that her experiences with makeup artists offering to “help [her] face look better” did not happen on Coyote Ugly, but rather on other film sets. “That was 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.’” “All the girls had this regimen they had to go on.

Actress Melanie Lynskey opened up about being body shamed early in her career while filming "Coyote Ugly."

I see this has become a headline so please let me clarify some things! "I see this has become a headline so please let me clarify some things! "The first person was mean, the person credited was not." "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 told the magazine. The New Zealand-born actress also mentioned how the other women from the film had to go on "ridiculous" regimens. "Really intense feedback about my physicality, my body, people doing my makeup and being like, 'I'm just going to help you out by giving you a bit more of a jawline and stuff.' Just the feedback was constantly like, 'You're not beautiful.

Melanie Lynskey has ecalled the 'ridiculous' body-shaming she endured while shooting 'Coyote Ugly': 'I was already starving myself and as thin as I could ...

"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. Lynskey was also determined to stand up to the pressure and make sure her character, Shauna, was someone women can relate to. "The first person was mean, the person credited was not." She added, "In your early 20s, so much of it is about beauty, and how people respond to you, and do people want to f--- you? Starring Piper Perabo, the film centers on an aspiring songwriter who takes a job as a "coyote," or a bartender meant to tantalize customers. "All the girls had this regimen they had to go on.