British actress Kate
Beckinsale arrives for the closing ceremony at the 63rd Cannes Film
Festival on May 23, 2010 in Cannes. (Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images)
Actress Kate Beckinsale said “Transformers” director
Michael Bay body shamed her when they worked together on the 2001 film
“Pearl Harbor,” she revealed on May 27.
Beckinsale, said on the “Graham Norton Show” that the director said some not-so-flattering comments about her appearance.
“I don’t think I fit the type of actress Michael Bay had met before,”
Beckinsale said about the director who is notorious for his grumpy
personality.
“I think he was baffled by me because my boobs weren’t bigger than my head and I wasn’t blonde,” said Beckinsale.
“Then when he was asked about me, he’d say, ‘Kate wasn’t so
attractive that she would alienate the female audience,'” said the
actress.
“He kept saying it everywhere we went,” said Beckinsale, “and we went to a lot of places.”
In an interview
with Movieline in 2001, Michael Bay told a reporter that he picked
Beckinsale for the “Pearl Harbor” role because she wasn’t too
attractive.
Left
to right, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, and Ben Affleck gather on the
flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, May 20, 2001,
in preparation for the World Premiere of “Pearl Harbor”. Pictured in the
background is the USS Arizona Memorial located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
(Kevin Winter/Touchstone Pictures/Getty Images/Los Angeles)
“I didn’t want someone who was too beautiful. Women feel disturbed
when they see someone’s too pretty. I’m not saying Kate’s not pretty,”
said Bay.
“When you look at Titanic, Kate Winslet is pretty, but not
overwhelmingly beautiful. That makes it work better for women. Our Kate
is very funny, could hang with the guys. She’s not so neurotic about
everything, like some actresses. She was solid, and I think the three of
them had some really nice chemistry,” he added.
Beckinsale is now promoting the new Whit Stillman film she is in,
“Love and Friendship,” based on Jane Austen’s novel “Lady Susan.”
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