Emily Ratajkowski inI Feel Pretty(2018).Photo: STX Entertainment /Courtesy Everett ColletionEmily Ratajkowskiis explaining why she walked away from her budding acting career.The model andMy Bodyauthor, 31, opened upto theLos Angeles Timesabout her work pursuits, motherhood and her dating life after breaking up with estranged husbandSebastian Bear-McClard, a film producer.Ratajkowski, who famously starred inRobin Thicke’s 2013 “Blurred Lines” music video, had her big-screen acting debut in the 2014 David Fincher movieGone Girlas Andie, the college-student mistress ofBen Affleck’s Nick Dunne. After that she was inWe Are Your Friends(2015) andI Feel Pretty(2018), but she’s mostly quit acting since 2019.“I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’m an artist performing and this is my outlet.’ I felt like a piece of meat who people were judging, saying, ‘Does she have anything else other than her [breasts]?’ " Ratajkowski said of her Hollywood career.Her most recent audition, the outlet reported, was for last year’sTriangle of Sadness, which was nominated for Best Picture atthe Oscars. The part she tried out for ultimately went tolate model Charlbi Dean.Emily Ratajkowski.Karwai Tang/WireImageNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.She told the outlet that afterGone Girl, she was hoping to find roles that showed she could be a “serious actress with longevity.” By 2020, though, she fired her agent, commercial rep and manager, according to theL.A. Times.“I didn’t trust them. I was like, ‘I can handle receiving phone calls. I’m gonna make these decisions. None of you have my best interest at heart. And you all hate women,’ " said Ratajkowski.Emily Ratajkowski inGone Girl(2014).Merrick Morton/20th Century FoxTheHigh Low with EmRatapodcast hostpreviously toldES Magazineback in 2016 that she experienced a “paradox” as a model-turned-actress when finding parts.“If you’re a sexy actress it’s hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing that they’ve seen you in,” she said at the time. “People are like sheep and they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s what she does well.’ What’s so dumb is that women are 50 percent of the population and they want to spend money to see movies where they’re portrayed as three-dimensional characters.”
Emily Ratajkowski inI Feel Pretty(2018).Photo: STX Entertainment /Courtesy Everett Colletion
Emily Ratajkowskiis explaining why she walked away from her budding acting career.The model andMy Bodyauthor, 31, opened upto theLos Angeles Timesabout her work pursuits, motherhood and her dating life after breaking up with estranged husbandSebastian Bear-McClard, a film producer.Ratajkowski, who famously starred inRobin Thicke’s 2013 “Blurred Lines” music video, had her big-screen acting debut in the 2014 David Fincher movieGone Girlas Andie, the college-student mistress ofBen Affleck’s Nick Dunne. After that she was inWe Are Your Friends(2015) andI Feel Pretty(2018), but she’s mostly quit acting since 2019.“I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’m an artist performing and this is my outlet.’ I felt like a piece of meat who people were judging, saying, ‘Does she have anything else other than her [breasts]?’ " Ratajkowski said of her Hollywood career.Her most recent audition, the outlet reported, was for last year’sTriangle of Sadness, which was nominated for Best Picture atthe Oscars. The part she tried out for ultimately went tolate model Charlbi Dean.Emily Ratajkowski.Karwai Tang/WireImageNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.She told the outlet that afterGone Girl, she was hoping to find roles that showed she could be a “serious actress with longevity.” By 2020, though, she fired her agent, commercial rep and manager, according to theL.A. Times.“I didn’t trust them. I was like, ‘I can handle receiving phone calls. I’m gonna make these decisions. None of you have my best interest at heart. And you all hate women,’ " said Ratajkowski.Emily Ratajkowski inGone Girl(2014).Merrick Morton/20th Century FoxTheHigh Low with EmRatapodcast hostpreviously toldES Magazineback in 2016 that she experienced a “paradox” as a model-turned-actress when finding parts.“If you’re a sexy actress it’s hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing that they’ve seen you in,” she said at the time. “People are like sheep and they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s what she does well.’ What’s so dumb is that women are 50 percent of the population and they want to spend money to see movies where they’re portrayed as three-dimensional characters.”
Emily Ratajkowskiis explaining why she walked away from her budding acting career.
The model andMy Bodyauthor, 31, opened upto theLos Angeles Timesabout her work pursuits, motherhood and her dating life after breaking up with estranged husbandSebastian Bear-McClard, a film producer.
Ratajkowski, who famously starred inRobin Thicke’s 2013 “Blurred Lines” music video, had her big-screen acting debut in the 2014 David Fincher movieGone Girlas Andie, the college-student mistress ofBen Affleck’s Nick Dunne. After that she was inWe Are Your Friends(2015) andI Feel Pretty(2018), but she’s mostly quit acting since 2019.
“I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’m an artist performing and this is my outlet.’ I felt like a piece of meat who people were judging, saying, ‘Does she have anything else other than her [breasts]?’ " Ratajkowski said of her Hollywood career.
Her most recent audition, the outlet reported, was for last year’sTriangle of Sadness, which was nominated for Best Picture atthe Oscars. The part she tried out for ultimately went tolate model Charlbi Dean.
Emily Ratajkowski.Karwai Tang/WireImage
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
She told the outlet that afterGone Girl, she was hoping to find roles that showed she could be a “serious actress with longevity.” By 2020, though, she fired her agent, commercial rep and manager, according to theL.A. Times.
“I didn’t trust them. I was like, ‘I can handle receiving phone calls. I’m gonna make these decisions. None of you have my best interest at heart. And you all hate women,’ " said Ratajkowski.
Emily Ratajkowski inGone Girl(2014).Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox
TheHigh Low with EmRatapodcast hostpreviously toldES Magazineback in 2016 that she experienced a “paradox” as a model-turned-actress when finding parts.
“If you’re a sexy actress it’s hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing that they’ve seen you in,” she said at the time. “People are like sheep and they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s what she does well.’ What’s so dumb is that women are 50 percent of the population and they want to spend money to see movies where they’re portrayed as three-dimensional characters.”
source: people.com
