Showing posts with label Joel McHale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joel McHale. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
"Community’ is All About The Show For Yvette Nicole Brown"
During the in-depth interview with the Akron Beacon Journal's Rich Heldenfels , Yvette Nicole Brown not only talked about the broadening of her character Shirley on this season of "Community", but also the plight of actresses over a size 10:
"...Brown is a good-looking woman but not long ago received a tweet from a fan saying that her father sees Brown and asks “how do they let fat people like this on tv.” And this in a medium where chubby guys have often starred in sitcoms opposite model-thin wives, a condition TV critic Lisa de Moraes dubbed “male pattern optimism.”
“I am just about sick of this weight situation,” Brown said. “I guess because people can’t be racist anymore, can’t be homophobic anymore, they realize the last thing they can do is be hateful about someone not being a size zero,
“Look at the world. I am the norm. So, if I’m sitting at home in Ohio watching TV, I want to see me. I think it’s great that they’re letting people over a size 12 on television. … What does my weight have to do with what I have to say, or if I’m smart, or if I’m funny? … I don’t get it. I am personally offended by it. I am offended for anybody over a size 10. I am offended by the implication that because you’re chubby you don’t belong. How is that different from saying because you’re black you don’t belong, because you’re gay you don’t belong? It’s that same garbage, and I’m sick of it. I will speak on it every chance I get. …
“Every chubby girl I see on TV for the most part are gorgeous women. I’m not putting myself in there — but look at Melissa McCarthy. Her face is amazing. Whatever size she is, she’s going to be gorgeous. And I’m trying to figure out why beauty is negated by size. … I hate the idea that we are diminished because we happen to like bacon,” she said with a laugh. “Why do I become less of a person because I enjoy the beautiful pork the Lord has put on the earth?”
Read the full interview here at Ohio.com
Monday, July 18, 2011
Community's Alison Brie and Gillian Jacob Strips Down For GQ ( Photo/Video)
...."Community," now two seasons deep, seemed to figure itself out almost instantly—embracing weird, risky habits like engineering entire episodes as film parodies and building in layers-deep Easter eggs for its devotees. Not to mention the wire-sharp quips traded by the members of the show's lightly dysfunctional study group.
Brie's character, Annie, who protests indecency in a register that conjures a conductor on his tiptoes, couldn't be more of an innocent, fizzy contradiction to the actress. Annie, on "Community": never seen a penis. Brie, in an essay she wrote about deflowering her gay friend: "My vagina would have been his road to salvation!" Which is to say, the girls are willing to embrace the funny in sex. "It's just so deadly serious to each of us but hilarious to everyone else," Jacobs says. "When you're having sex with someone," Brie adds, "it really is similar to putting yourself out there and saying, 'I think this is funny and I hope you laugh.'"
Read More: Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs Did This Lesbian Scene for Us
Video: Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs Get Kinky
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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