Harry Potter actress Jessie Cave: ‘Invisible on set when I gained some kilos’ | Stars

entertainment">“I gained a few pounds after Harry Potter simply because I was no longer starving myself. As a girl growing up, that just happens,” she says. When she returned for the movie Deathly Hallows parts 1 and 2, she felt terrible. “I was treated like a different species. It was probably more my own insecurity, at a time when actresses wore size 36 at most. And I was now a size 40. It was a very uncomfortable experience. I felt invisible.”

entertainment">Jessie Cave says she still has issues with her weight and her job. According to her, they already started when she was a fan of Friends and took an example from Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow. She later found out that her agent required Aniston to lose 14 pounds to get the part and that Lisa had “made herself sick with dieting.” “They were so tiny, so thin. For years I thought they were lucky. But now it is clear that they were starving themselves as well.”

entertainment">Cave is therefore happy that she has switched careers. “If I had stayed unnaturally thin, I would probably have gotten more acting jobs, but then I would never have started writing.

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