Alyssa Milanowants to make it very clear that her new Netflix show,Insatiable, isn’t fat-shaming anyone,despite what many seemed to thinkafter seeing its trailer. In fact, the show does quite the opposite — and working on the project made her feel empowered and inspired to speak her mind.
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“At the end of the day, the show is a satire about how looks can be deceiving and deals with thematic issues like body image and what it means to win, validation, and filling a void,” Milano explains.
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Milano was the first celebrity to tweet #MeToo with regards to sexual misconduct in Hollywood and ultimately was pivotal in launching the movement. “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem,” she wrote on Oct. 15, 2017. And sure enough,it did.
As for her battle with anxiety, Milano says she has “good days and bad days,” and notes that “anxiety is not something that you can take a magic pill and it just sort of goes away.”
“Whether it be mental illnesses or eating disorders or any of these hard societal topics that we face, these are all topics that cause pain, and people bring a certain amount of personal experience to what they watch,” theWho’s the Boss?alum adds, bringing the conversation back toInsatiable. “Art at its best is a great conversation instigator, and I think this show has already proven that it will be that. But I am a firm believer that, especially with my coming out with my anxiety disorder, that these things are better out in the open than swept under the rug.
Insatiabledebuts on Netflix on Aug. 10.
source: people.com
