Vainness Honest star Olivia Cooke reveals how a director informed her to drop pounds by 18

Vainness Honest star Olivia Cooke has opened up about how a TV director informed her to drop pounds for a job when she was a slim teenager.

The actress, who is ready to star in Sport Of Thrones prequel Home Of The Dragon, stated her friends have been pressured to smuggle meals onto set when she was 18 – and ten years later says she it nonetheless is traumatized by his feedback.

Again then, Ms. Cooke, now 28, appeared in two TV dramas – Blackout, reverse Christopher Eccleston, and The Secret Of Crickley Corridor, starring Suranne Jones.

Whereas each exhibits appeared on the BBC, they have been produced by impartial manufacturing corporations.

She stated: “I noticed early on that aesthetics and the way folks understand your physique is fairly necessary. At considered one of my earliest jobs, the director requested me to drop pounds for the position. I used to be already very slim, however I used to be younger. I used to be 18 so I had a chubby face as a result of I used to be a child. I stated, ‘Oh my god, I am within the film enterprise, somebody requested me to drop pounds. It occurs.”

HOW SHE CHANGED: Olivia on the Home Of The Dragon premiere

“I bear in mind the solid discovering out he had requested me to drop pounds as a result of I used to be proscribing what I used to be consuming, in order that they began sneaking me meals. I’m nonetheless traumatized to today.”

Ms Cooke, who performed Becky Sharp in ITV’s Vainness Honest dramatization, additionally stated the person teased her with a plate of candy snacks.

She added: “He was going to provide me a be aware and had a big plate of biscuits in entrance of him.

“He ate the cookies and he is like, ‘Oh, not for you!’ I simply thought, “Shut up!”

“I believe it is modified a bit of bit now, however possibly they’re smarter, they know the way to phrase it now.”

The star – about to be unveiled because the face of Garrard jewelry, a favourite of the Queen – says she realized she had cellulite on the age of 9 however is attempting to not get upset about her physique.

Teenage Olivia in The Thriller of Crinkley Corridor.

She stated: “I bear in mind observing myself within the mirror and considering, ‘I even have cellulite.’

“Possibly it was good to know that girls have cellulite, they’ve shaky elements and individuals are shaky as a result of they’re fats, they’ve pores and skin, they’ve construction. It is simply our bodies.

“So I’ve by no means actually tried to combat it as a result of I do know my physique wasn’t speculated to seem like it.

“Do not get me fallacious, I typically fall down the rabbit gap of Instagram and take a look at folks’s synthetic, photoshopped our bodies and stuff like that.”