- The "Yellowjackets" star talked about her experience filming 'Coyote Ugly' with The Hollywood Reporter.
- Lynskey said makeup artists and costume designers on set were "very disappointed when they saw me."
Melanie Lynskey opened up about her "ridiculous" experience on the set of the 2000 film "Coyote Ugly" in an interview published on Wednesday with The Hollywood Reporter's Rebecca Keegan.
The musical dramedy starred Piper Perabo as Violet, a small town girl who moves to New York to pursue her songwriting dreams. Lynskey played a character named Gloria, Violet's best friend from New Jersey.
Alongside her "Yellowjackets" castmates, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, and Tawny Cypress, Lynskey discussed the troubling comments she received from certain crew members with THR.
Lynskey told THR that she and her "Coyote Ugly" costars were placed on a "regimen." In addition, Lynskey also revealed that she wore shapewear on set.
"It was ridiculous, I was already starving myself and as thin as I could possibly be for this body, and I was still a [size] four," she told the outlet. "That was already people putting a lot of Spanx on me in wardrobe fittings and being very disappointed when they saw me, the costume designer being like, 'Nobody told me there would be girls like you.'"
Lynskey added that she also received "intense feedback" about her body.
"Just the feedback was constantly like, 'You're not beautiful. You're not beautiful,'" the actress told THR.
Lynskey said that the harsh feedback didn't end with monitoring her eating habits. During the interview, she revealed that a costume designer once told her, "Nobody told me there would be girls like you." She continued, adding that a makeup artist offered to give her "a bit more of a jawline" while on set.
The actress also divulged the treatment of her fellow female costars while filming. According to Lynskey, her "Coyote Ugly" costar Perabo was under an intense microscope while filming.
"But the scrutiny that was on Piper [Perabo], who's one of the coolest, smartest women, just the way people were talking about her body, talking about her appearance, focusing on what she was eating."
After her experiences in the industry, Lynskey described feeling "very protective" over the girls who play the younger versions of the lead actresses on the Showtime hit "Yellowjackets."
"At the beginning of production, I sent them all an email, and I just was like, 'Whatever you need, if you need a voice, if you need someone to go to the producers for you, whatever you need,' and they were kind of like, 'Cool. Thanks.' They're fine," she told THR.
This isn't the first time Lynskey has been vocal about the scrutiny she's faced during her film career. Insider's Libby Torres reported that Lynskey spoke out earlier this year regarding her treatment on the set of "Yellowjackets."
In a January 2021 interview with Rolling Stone's EJ Dickson, Lynskey claimed that a crew member critiqued her body by asking if she was hiring a trainer. Lynskey said that her castmates backed her throughout the ordeal and revealed that Lewis wrote a letter to the show's producers in support of Lynskey.