Bryce Dallas Howard has become one of the standard-bearers of the 'body positive' philosophy in Hollywood, even so, her appearance continues to be a matter of debate among executives of film production companies
Bryce Dallas Howard has revealed in a recent interview with the British media Metro that he was recommended to lose weight before returning to embody the former head of operations of the Jurassic World dinosaur park, Claire Dearing, in the movie Jurassic World: Dominion: “How do I say this, how do I say this, how do I say this...", the actress jokes on camera because she has already said it on countless occasions. "They asked me not to use my real body on screen."
Without mincing words, the interpreter points out that certain executives, whom she does not identify by her name, discussed her weight and asked her to lose weight before starting to shoot the film that closes the revival of the Jurassic saga.
He explains that it was the director of this and the first Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow, who came to his defense and showed his support in public: "In this third film there is much more female presence in the cast," says Dallas Howard, "and that was something that made Colin [Trevorrow] feel safe enough to protect me... because the 'We need to ask Bryce to lose weight' conversation came up again.”
The director did not give room for negotiation about the weight loss of his leading actress: "There are many types of women in this world and there are many types of women in this film," says Bryce Dallas Howard that the director argued. He also points out that it would have been impossible for her to do action scenes if she had been on a diet: “I am very proud of all the action scenes that I had to do, and that I was able to do with my own body. I hope this is a small sample of what is possible."
Perhaps because of the security that having been raised in the cradle of Hollywood gives her —her father is Ron Howard, director of films like Apollo 13 or A Beautiful Mind— or because of the lessons her own life has taught her, Bryce Dallas Howard, who Throughout her career she has dressed in different sizes of clothing, she has become a vocal and vital person within the body positive philosophy, demonstrating that weight fluctuations are natural for many women, especially when they have children.
As she recognized, the bodily changes that she experienced during her first pregnancy, in 2007, did not affect her, but those of the second, in 2012, did: "Before Theo was born, I was quite calm with the 36 kilos gained, but now I was mortified," she wrote in an essay published on GOOP, the lifestyle website owned by fellow actress Gwyneth Paltrow, where she recounted her experience with postpartum depression. From that experience, she took a few lessons: one of them was to accept her own body and the natural changes that could occur in it, despite what the tabloids could comment on it.
One of her most subtle forms of protest occurs on the red carpet at the most important awards given by the industry: since 2016, the actress has opted to buy her own dresses, sometimes in online stores and for less than $300, like the yellow vee-neck dress from TopShop that she wore to that year's Critics' Choice Awards.
His decision is due to the difficulties in finding designers willing to dress celebrities that go outside the canon and the usual sizes: "I alluded to this at the Golden Globes," he declared during the Critics' Choice Awards, "but it is that when you are not a sample size, or when you do not have a direct relationship with a designer, or if you do not have much time to spend, dresses in my size are not available.
So I usually buy them on my own.” In this way, he sends a strong message to the film and fashion industry: that not all celebrities wear sizes 34 and 35. And, more explicitly, he denies the great designers the possibility of dressing one of the latest big female blockbuster stars and up-and-coming directors after getting behind the cameras of The Mandalorian series, set in the Star Wars universe.
In 2017, the actress gained 13 kilos to play Lacie Pound in the episode Nosedive of the dystopian science fiction series Black Mirror. The episode depicted a society where everyone used an app that gave everyone else 0-5 points after every social interaction, and his character wanted to get a grade higher than 4.2 before going to a wedding, as a response to humiliation.
That the bride sent her a bridesmaid dress that was too small. This role allowed Bryce Dallas Howard to speak about his views on the pressure women are under: “In the culture that we live in, there is this pervasive and shared agreement that there is a certain body type to admire and, in fact, to admire. it is not based on anything real or substantive. It is something truly superficial, and that has a high cost, ”he said in an interview for Marie Claire magazine. With this resume and her constant public statements, it's hard for her to imagine there's still a single executive who would ask Bryce Dallas Howard to try to lose weight.
