Kristen Stewart criticized for her Princess Diana portrayal by this charity
Spencer.The role has landed Stewart, who is bisexual and engaged to the screenwriter Dylan Meyer, with a heap of award nominations.
This includes a ‘Best Actress’ nod at the forthcoming Academy Awards. However, not everyone has been impressed.Stewart, 31, told Vanity Fair that she had struggled to make herself throw up in her attempts to give an authentic performance.“I’ll do f***ing anything.
I couldn’t throw up on this movie, even when I really should have,” she said in the magazine’s recent Hollywood issue.“I felt like absolute s*** and I could not get it up, and I know it was because my body was just like… the idea of that was so untouchable.”Related: What is bigorexia and do you suffer from it?However, Tom Quinn, of eating disorder charity Beat, told The Mirror, “Depicting eating disorders on screen can be a brilliant way to raise awareness of these serious mental illnesses, but it’s crucial this is done responsibly.“We’d urge the film industry to protect professionals working in this space, for instance by dedicating time and resources to eating disorder training.”Quinn said he understood actors want to, “get as close to their characters as possible”, but pishing themselves too far can bring a “huge risk” to their health.Martha Williams, a Clinical Advice Coordinator for the charity, went further, saying, “Some aspects of the film, we felt, seemed to glamorize the eating disorder.
