Sarah Snook says the ‘unrealistic beauty standard’ in Hollywood ‘makes more women unhappy’

Succession star Sarah Snook is calling out

Succession star Sarah Snook is contacting out “unrealistic” beauty criteria in Hollywood. (Photo: Lia Toby/Getty Photographs for BFI)

Sarah Snook may perhaps be on 1 of TV’s most popular exhibits, but the Succession star just isn’t down with Hollywood’s elegance standards. 

“I imply, just about every time you get a function, you might be like: ‘Oh, this one’s the a single. I’m going to seriously work out and get match and glance like the movie star I would hope to develop into or have a career executing,” the 33-12 months-aged actress advised Vogue Australia

“And just about every time, I am like: ‘Can I truly be f***ed subscribing to an unrealistic beauty conventional that then perpetuates and can make extra women of all ages unhappy because they really feel like they cannot achieve a thing that’s not basically sensible in any case?'”

The Australian star has “been chainsawing and chopping wooden to hold in shape” when she’s not in entrance of the camera. With her new husband, comic Dave Lawson, she enjoys enjoyable at home at the couple’s sprawling estate outside Melbourne, where their assets is property to a koala, wombats and kangaroos. When the pandemic was a struggle for many, the period managed to be a personalized highlight for the pair, who at first arrived collectively as buddies all through the pandemic’s preliminary lockdown time period. Shortly, they were romantically involved. 

“At the beginning of the pandemic previous yr, I bought locked down in Melbourne with one particular of my very best mates and we fell in really like,” she informed the magazine. 

Snook proposed to Lawson, and the pair was married in the backyard of her Brooklyn residence over a calendar year ago. 

“It’s been a experience,” she shared. “There is so a lot heartache and sadness in the environment, but on a micro private amount, I’ve been quite lucky. There’s a actually wonderful grace in that without the need of the pandemic, we could possibly not have finished up collectively so quickly.”

Whilst Snook is the similar age as her tricky-as-nails Succession character Shiv Roy, she does not truly feel you can find significantly else that she shares with the heiress. Though she likes that Shiv is “forthright, that she speaks her very own intellect,” she recognizes that Roy most probable derives her truly worth from realizing that “she believes that she’s permitted to be in any home mainly because she could in all probability acquire the constructing.”

Having said that, Snook doesn’t particularly relate to Roy’s gratuitous prosperity.

“I have no idea what it is like to be a billionaire, other than by way of investigate,” she claimed. “Whilst, I’m on this farm with Dave in mother nature and I’m like, ‘Woo hoo.’”

Nonetheless, the part has been “an interesting one particular to see split through,” Snook explained. “I normally feel like I’ve performed by choice and superior fortune, interesting, complicated, sturdy and a excellent range of females, in phrases of their characters. They normally have a power and they are not pushovers, but there’s commonly been a redeeming softness that they are protecting. And Shiv has that as properly, but her protection of that softness is so unique from who I am as a person.”

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