Christina Applegate has just opened to be sexualized on "married ... with children"
"Looking back with hindsight, it's quite disgusting," said the former teenager's star in a new interview.
In 1987, Christina Applegate came to glory Married to children Like kelly , The Ditzy, teenage girl from the Bundy family. Although the actor was only 15 years old when the sitcom was created, it was sexualized by fans and put in situations where she now feels that she had nothing to do. In a new interview with Vanity , Applegate, now 51, has spoken of experience and what she thinks about it today. Read the rest to see what she had to say.
Read this then: The former child's star says that she "became a recluse" after jokes on her body spread online .
She knew people were focused on her appearance.
In her Vanity interview, Applegate was asked about Be judged for her appearance on her talent and if she found her frustrating.
"Yeah, totally. I have never been at the reception of any kind of lascivious anyone before [ Married to children ] Because I wore bells around my ankles and my moccasins and Portéais du Patchouli, "she said." I was a rough hippie kid. ""
She found the reaction to her "fat" character.
Applegate then talked about the kind of renown that the series brought him and how older fans considered his character.
"Looking back with hindsight, it's quite disgusting," she continued. "Yeah, this part of it was zero. The men had posters of this young age 17, with me holding pearls. Like, who let me do this? I did not even know what was the connotation."
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Its connection to Married to children Costing your roles.
The sitcom has been a long -standing success, but Applegate said that playing Kelly had cost his other roles. Instead, she received "billion" of offers to be typascastes as a similar character.
"I have never taken one of them," she said. "I would audition for things and people would be like:" Oh my God, she gave the best hearing of anyone, but it is Christina, and we cannot have this name associated with this masterpiece 'work. "It happened more than you can even imagine it."
She separated from the feelings of fans about Kelly.
In a 2019 interview with Fresh air ,, Applegate was requested How countless teenagers who have the crush on her had an impact on her self -image while she was in the series. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"This is not the case. I am very-like, I stay in my bubble. I have always stayed in my own bubble," she said. "And the way I worked in the world was very different from Kelly Bundy - the person I was, the way I got dressed, the friends I had. My interests were the polar opposite She. So no one has approached me. I. I have sort of held with it, like a kind of atmosphere all the time.
She had a little control over her character.
Applegate had her say on who was Kelly and helped to shape her in the character she wanted her to be. Of course, she simply had no control over how people reacted to Kelly or how they sexualize her as a person outside the show. (Kelly's sexualization in the show has also become more blatant as the series continued.)
"[O] Rightly, Kelly was a bit, like a little chick, not very rebellious, almost rebellious," said Applegate Fresh air . The actor was inspired to develop it in something else after watching a documentary on Heavy Metal fans, she explained.
"[I] little evolved or devolved, if you want to call her that, after seeing this girl in this documentary," she said. "And I went, oh, my God, I need it - that's it. It is her. So, we have changed it to be a kind of product from the 80s, of this generation of girls who felt that they needed to use their bodies to go further in the world, and music was heavy metal ... "
She also said that she had "secrets" on Kelly. "I had to play it as a genius," said Applegate. "You know, in her own mind, it is a genius - and a virgin, in fact. It is my little secrets that I had about it."
