While looking back at old photos to share on social media,Evan Rachel Woodcame across one that brought up a memory she felt worth sharing.
The photo was a topless one she took during a shoot one her “favorite photographers,” Ellen von Unwerth, forFlaunt Magazine. In the photo, a semi-nude Wood obscures her face behind a glass of wine, tugging at her white shorts.
“So, I decided to do a ‘throwback’ photo rollout on Instagram and while looking up old photos of mine, I stumbled across this. A familiar feeling washed over me. This feeling of worthlessness. Then I remembered its all a lie,” theWestworldactress, 31,wrote on Twitter, sharing the article.
“I posed topless for an@ellenvonunwerthphotoshoot and ‘Giulia Blasi’ at#Vogue, no less, decided to take me down a few pegs,” she added to the thread. “Look at the narratives that are assigned to women. Look at the way we make their looks their value or what makes them ‘interesting.'”
“As we look back on the history of film, we realize that the most memorable thespians are not always the most flawlessly beautiful,” the Blasi wrote, commenting examples, such as Meryl Streep’s “long thin nose.”
Evan Rachel Wood.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
She then harshly added that posing nude would not help the then young star become interesting.
Wood continued her Twitter thread, explaining how the article judged her without knowing her situation or motives behind the photo.
“Look at how they judge my life at 18 years old without giving a second thought as to what my situation might have been, look at the way they assume my posing was 4 them, to make them like me, instead of me just living my best life with 1 of my favorite photographers,” she wrote.
“It just makes me really sad, that’s all. That this is the respect we give women in the industry,” she added.
Throughout her fame, the actress has been incredibly vocal about the industry’s treatment of women, advocating for the #MeToo movement and opening up abouther experience with abusive relationships.
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“Hi. It’s me. You’re right. It was a terrible piece,” the author responded on Twitter. “I had no recollection of it and I wouldn’t write it now. I shouldn’t have done that to you or anyone and I’m sorry.”
“We all do things we wish we hadn’t after growth. Myself included,” she told the writer. “Thank you for the apology. How we repair is what matters sometimes.”
source: people.com
