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navree · 1 year

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I mean Rhaenyra can still be beautiful and still put on weight and such. Big Beautfiul Woman. Curvy Rhaenyra.

Like I get why Westeros would be like "yeah Rhaenyra isn't fourteen anymore so she's not hot" because Westerosi society sucks ass, and this is a Mushroom account so it can be taken with a grain of salt (tho not when it comes to shit he said about Aegon so shrug dot emoji) but it feels a bit like the showrunners didn't want to have a fat woman as their lead actress, as literally the main character, because Hollywood is still an insanely sexist and incredibly toxic industry that adheres to slenderness and European beauty standards as the peak everyone else needs to be held to.

I'm not the best person to speak on this subject, due to a variety of reasons, but it feels a bit Weird that Helaena and Rhaenyra are explicitly described as, at the very least, plus sized, and yet that was just completely ignored. It's minor, because honestly Emma is killing it in the role as Rhaenyra, and I think we'll see great things from Phia once they give her more to work with, but it's something I noticed when I saw the casting.

#personal #answered #anonymous #fatphobia tw #i mean maybe??? it's subject but just in case #it's also a bit of a holdover from GOT #because lysa's described as having put on weight and cersei's described that way too during her walk of atonement #but the show still had a skinny actress for lysa and i think lena used a body double for the walk of atonement #who was also clearly much more slender than book cersei was described #and there's a bit of an issue with george writing fat women explicitly to show how they're no longer desirable as they once were #catelyn points out that lysa is no longer lovely and she gained weight from failed pregnancies #cersei's whole thing during the walk of atonement is that she's not gonna be considered beautiful anymore #because alcoholism made her bloat a bit and she's got stretch marks from being pregnant so she's not longer hot #and again rhaenyra's weight gain is seen as making her beauty 'a fading memory'#which they don't need to do anon like you said #you could still cast a fat actress to play a character described that way in the book and have her considered beautiful #and not constantly beat herself up about it #but yeah it's a bit odd #it's not something i dwell on or think i'm the most qualified to discuss because my own relationship with weight gain/weight loss #and food intake is a bit uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Complex #but i do see it and i did note it

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