Obviously, this goes without saying, but Alicia Silverstone — or as I’ll always know her, Cher Horowitz from Clueless — is flawless and you couldn’t tell me otherwise.
Unfortunately, she recently revealed that while filming Batman & Robin , some people actually had the audacity to body-shame her. SMH.
Hollywood is a tough industry with a very tough peanut gallery of critics.
Clueless star, Alicia Silverstone recently opened up in an interview with The Guardian , about some harsh remarks she faced after filming Batman & Robin in 1997.
It’s hard to imagine that anyone would have anything bad to say about this icon:
I mean, this is Alicia Silverstone we’re talking about here — a ’90s American heartthrob! What gives?!
But according to Alicia, she has faced some rather harsh criticisms in the past about her body.
And because of it, she her passion for acting took a major hit.
She began by revealing at the height of her fame in the ’90s, she felt out of her element in some ways.
“It was really just extreme how I was being talked to and talked about,” she said
All of the chatter orbiting her at the time, negative and otherwise, made her a bit reluctant to seize the moment.
“I think I just got really turned off by it,” she said .
She recalled, although being at the top of every casting director’s wish-list, feeling isolated by Hollywood.
She admitted that at the time she didn’t have “a ton of friends in the industry”.
She then explained that her big follow-up to *Clueless*, 1997 *Batman & Robin* caused a lot of unnecessary stress in her life.
“That definitely wasn’t my favorite film-making experience,” she confessed .
For some inexplicable reason, the takeaway from the film was Alicia’s weight.
Tabloids and paparazzi went on to refer to as “Fatgirl” for quite some time after the film was released.
And while it was far from being true, it still understandably, left a bad taste in Alicia’s mouth.
“They would make fun of my body when I was younger,” she said .
“It was hurtful but I knew they were wrong. I wasn’t confused,” she continued.
“I knew that it was not right to make fun of someone’s body shape, that doesn’t seem like the right thing to be doing to a human .”
“There were working circumstances that were less than favourable in terms of how things went down,” she went on.
“And no, I didn’t say ‘[expletive] you’ and come out like a warrior “.
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“But I would just walk away and go, OK I know what that is and I’m done, I’m not going near that again.”
“I stopped loving acting for a very long time,” she said .
She explained that getting a role in a David Mamet play is was ended up reigniting her love for acting.
“My body was just like, this is what I’m meant to do, I love it so much,” she said .
“I need to find a way to do both,” she said, referring to combining her two passions, acting and activism.
“To be able to be an actress and be an activist at the same time so that’s what I did .”
What do you think of Alicia Silverstone’s latest interview with *The Guardian*, revealing that she was body-shamed for her role in *Batman & Robin*?
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