A Weighty Issue

This has been said many, many, many, many, times, but actors and actresses in many of today's TV shows and films are too dang thin! I have had enough now. And here's why.

A certain US TV show - we will call it Femme - has a lead actress who is 5ft 5" and weighs a reported 103 pounds. To us Brits that is a whopping 7 stone(ish)! When this show started, I was looking forward to it as I had been a big fan of the original film. The pilot episode started and visually it was stylish and classy - just as I had hoped. The main actress came on screen looking as beautiful as expected. Nothing out of the ordinary here. In the next scene, however, she had a fight with a much larger man, knocked him unconscious, put his body on a trolley and pushed him down a corridor. A corridor with thick carpeting on the floor.

There was no way a woman her size would have been able to do that!

No. Way.

I turned over.

A certain Hollywood film - we shall call it Pepper - had a very well known actress in the lead role. This actress is 5ft 7" and her reported weight is estimated somewhere between 99lbs and 120lbs. In a scene in the final act, the actress has a fist fight with a male actor of 6ft 3" (and a possible 225lbs!) and KNOCKS HIM OUT!!!!! DAFAQ!!!

I am aware that the studios show us the beautiful people. The aspirational people. The people, that if we look at them for too long, will burn our very eyes with their beauty!

But who says that this image of beauty is a woman with a body like a young child with an oversized head?

I would like, if I may, to point you in the direction of a certain TV show called Suits. There are 3 main female characters in this show and, yes, they are very slim. But they are not ridiculously so. They actually have (whisper this) boobies  and hips and they maybe even wiggle a little when they walk!

Don't get me wrong, I am not against people of any size playing any role - unless it affects the believability of a premise. I know that all films and TV shows are a work of fiction, with each creating their own 'world' and rules within those worlds.  I've already posted on my love for Being Human and, as many of my twitter friends will know, I am a big fan of many other supernatural-ly shows. I know how to suspend disbelief. I can do it LIKE A BOSS!

To a point.

And I've reached my point

("Hurrah" I hear you cry!)