Melanie Lynskey started talking about herself as a character actor very early on, she said in a recent interview — possibly because deflecting the spotlight was easier than having makeup and costume people constantly body-shame her size-4 frame as unacceptably fat.
“I think I just was like, ‘That’s what I am,’” the star of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday.
Plus, she told the L.A. Times this week, she was dealing with an eating disorder around that time.
