While we all know that the beauty standards in Hollywood aren’t exactly healthy or realistic, you’d think that the tales of actresses being fired for their weight or dress size would be long gone.
However, new reports of Casey Wilson being fired from SNL for refusing or failing to lose 30lbs over the summer break shows us that perhaps show biz hasn’t changed at all, and is up to its same old bullshitty tricks.
Perez Hilton recently reported that the SNL were bringing on two new female cast members – rumoured to be Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad – and now E! Online are saying that while Michaela Watkins has been pretty gracious about being let go to “make room” for yet two more white and attractive female comediens, the circumstances under which Casey Wilson was let go are anything but pretty.
How can it be that in 2009, female actresses and comedians are losing their jobs for not being a size 4?
Personaly, I never really saw Casey Wilson in action. E! Online say she was already “on thin ice” with SNL as she failed to develop a “hit character on the show “ or “strike a nerve” with audiences. Could this be the actual reason for her departure, and not her weight?
Are we too quick to believe that SNL would dismiss a female cast member for her weight, rather than for her comedic abilities?
It certainly seems to be a likely story, and we’re already all sensitive to female comedians needing to be sexy, as well as funny – and never mind that whole argument about women not even being funny to begin with.
But I have to wonder if the reason I hadn’t heard of Casey Wilson before all this was due to her not having the same “sexy geek” appeal as Tina Fey, or for not being as thin and blonde as Amy Poehler...
Or was it because that she just wasn’t a good fit on SNL and simply isn’t as funny as Poehler and Fey?