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26th December 2022
10:00am GMT

"If I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way," she said. "I would have said to journalists, I would have responded, I would have said, 'Don't you dare treat me like this. I'm a young woman, my body is changing. I'm figuring it out. I'm deeply insecure. I'm terrified. Don't make this any harder than it already is."
Kate then described this behaviour as "bullying" and "borderline abusive".
Over the years, Kate has been unafraid to call out Hollywood for its unreasonable expectations for women.
Last year, following the release of Mare of Easttown, Kate revealed that she refused to let the director edit out a "bulgy bit of belly" from a sex scene. Additionally, she rejected a number of promotional posters which featured edited photos of her face.
Addressing her character in an interview with The New York Times: "She's a fully functioning flawed woman with a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from. I think we're starved of that a bit."Explore more on these topics: