Actor Emily Ratajkowski starred in 2014's Gone Girl recently explained she abandoned her acting career in Hollywood due to her treatment by some of the industry's leading male figures.
According to Variety, Ratajkowski explained she found Hollywood "f***ed up." She went on to state, "I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’m an artist performing and this is my outlet,'" Finally, she said, "I felt like a piece of meat who people were judging, saying, ‘Does she have anything else other than her [breasts]?'"
In early 2020, Ratajkowski fired her acting agent, commercial representative and manager as she did not have confidence in their interest or ability to find her roles that could showcase she was a "serious actress with longevity." "I didn't trust them," she said. "I was like, 'I can handle receiving phone calls. I'm gonna make these decisions. None of you have my best interest at heart. And you all hate women.'"
Ratajkowski's Experience in Hollywood
In her essay collection My Body, Ratajkowski cites a party she attended with her estranged husband, Sebastian Bear-McClard, as an epiphany. Not only did Bear-McClard's "clearly drunk" agent tell her she was "like Pamela Anderson before the hep C," she also despised the rest of the company her husband kept, describing the party's attendees as "men who only two years before had been kissing Harvey Weinstein's ring and encouraging their young female clients to take meetings with him in hotel rooms."
She previously stated "Maybe that’s why right now I’m not really interested in men’s POVs... Because they were lies... Hollywood is fucked up. And it’s dark… I had a hard time even being at a party like that. But then having a part of me that was so connected to it was even harder."
Ratajkowski played Andie Fitzgerald in Gone Girl, a student and secret lover of Ben Affleck's character Nick Dunne. The film, based on the international best-seller by Gillian Flynn, explored rigid gender roles and troubled marriages. It was a star-making turn for Rosamund Pike, who plaid Dunne's allegedly missing wife, and grossed almost $370 million worldwide on a $61 million budget.
Gone Girl is available for streaming on HBO Max.
Source: Variety