She's had enough.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
, calling her character an"overweight little girl." The actor noted that the original text the play is adapted from includes no mention of her character's weight."Everything I'd done to create my character had been reduced to a hurtful word and casual comment on my appearance," she explained. In a review of another play, the critic had called her character"a fat girl.
In response, she got an apology from the British Theatre Guide, which drew attention that she didn't want."It created a social media storm, the kind I'm not used to being in the middle of," she wrote."I had support from people I know, and so many I didn't; and while I appreciated that, it was overwhelming. I'd inadvertently opened myself up to the kind of scrutiny I'd been trying to say was irrelevant to my work. The focus was on me, not my acting.
Coughlan added,"Also, and I mean this in the nicest way ah [sic] possible, I'm not a body positivity activist, I'm an actor I would lose or gain weight if an important role requirement. My body is the tool I use to tell stories, not what I define myself by." She also posted a link to herIt's clear that Coughlan is not afraid to speak out when it comes to comments about her appearance.