MOVIE star Florence Pugh hit back after a film reviewer suggested she has ‘chunky thighs’.
Ms Pugh, 23, whose father Clinton Pugh runs restaurants in Cowley Road, is starring in the film Fighting with My Family, alongside Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson.
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Evening Standard reviewer Charlotte O'Sullivan gave the film four stars, and said Ms Pugh was an ‘effortlessly nuanced comedian. With chunky thighs’.
The actress responded on Twitter: “Oh dear. Singling out my ‘chunky’ thighs doesn’t help normalising an ‘all shape&size’ Hollywood.”
She added: "No-one's upset because of the word 'chunky'.
"Whether positive or negative there is totally no need in a film review to highlight how big OR small any part of my body is. Commenting on it like this doesn’t educate, it only highlights unnecessarily and that is why people are upset."
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Ms O'Sullivan's review of the movie, which tells the true story of WWE star Paige, is largely very positive.
But she chooses to point out that Ms Pugh has a different body shape to the wrestler Paige, and this has led to heated online debate.
Ms O'Sullivan wrote: "Her character is based on real-world WWE champion Paige, whose legs are significantly slimmer. How cool! So many actresses offer an idealised version of real women. Pugh is changing the ideal."
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie has been written by Stephen Merchant and is distributed by Lionsgate UK.
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Ms Pugh has also starred in the film Lady Macbeth and the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's The Little Drummer Girl.
She is a former pupil of former Cokethorpe School, Wychwood School and St Edward's School.
Fighting with My Family focuses on Paige and her brother Zak, who get the chance to try out for WWE.
Mr Merchant said earlier: “Florence threw herself into the physical aspects and immediately got Paige’s inners strength, humour and emotion. "We knew she could be this girl from Norwich where Paige grew up.”
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