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Castaway
1 appearance
Actor and writer who rose to fame with Bridesmaids and the Pitch Perfect trilogy.
On the island
Eight records
This is a song we actually sung in Pitch Perfect 1... we just learn to be cohesive as a group.
This is the first song I ever, ever remember hearing... my mum would have this cassette tape... she loved this Whitney Houston cassette.
Always Look on the Bright Side of LifeFavourite
It's a comedy song, but it was kind of something so sad because it takes me back to my dad's funeral and we played this at the very end.
I just was obsessed with like the swagger and confidence that rappers had.
I just love this song in the film, and I love the song in general.
This kind of was my motto all coming up in my career, this gutsy, like, Let Me Entertain You people... it just really has been my vibe throughout my career.
This is the song that I played when I proposed to Ramona.
My doctor likes to play a song that's giving positivity to the embryo. And so the song she played is the Beatles classic called Here Comes the Sun.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:40Can you remember the first time you realized making people laugh gave you a sense of power?
The first time people laughed, I was unexpected because I didn't set out... I very quickly computed, oh, there's something about me that people find funny. So I'm going to lean into it.
Presenter asks
13:11How did your father's unpredictable side manifest itself at home?
My father's story is is quite sad. His father got murdered when he was 18... he would get very angry at the drop of a hat... he'd normally just explode and do something crazy. And sometimes whack us or grab something and throw it.
Presenter asks
26:13How did you cope with the reset of starting again in Hollywood, trying to get a break?
No money, no friends? Well, I guess I felt like if I could get in one Hollywood movie, that would be legit... I get on the plane. I've only got one suitcase and a duna... I sold everything I had in order to fund this trip. And I thought I'll give myself a year. And if I make it, I do.
The keepsakes
The luxury
I love having baths. And being kind of a sensitive person, and when you just have that bath at the end of the day, it kind of washes everything off
Presenter asks
29:07Why did you decide to speak out about your experience with Sacha Baron Cohen after all this time?
In one way to release the shame that I had for staying in a situation that wasn't great, that was my worst professional experience. And that was where it crossed the line. It wasn't comedy. It just crossed the line into an experience where, yeah, I did feel humiliated and degraded for being an overweight woman.
Presenter asks
35:50How much of your year of health was physical and how much was psychological?
The one thing I'd never ever tried was anything emotional. So I'd never done any therapy or anything like that. And I found a doctor who specialised in your emotions and then how that affects you physically. And I started delving into like the emotions of why I would eat and why I would feel unlovable and why I would have low self-worth and why I was thinking of myself as trash and that's why I was feeding myself trash because I didn't think I deserved any better. But then months into it, things just start to click.
Presenter asks
38:43How did you feel when you got the call from the Sydney Morning Herald about your relationship?
I wasn't hiding my relationship with Ramona, but it was something we were slowly telling people in our lives. It was obviously very different for me to be dating a woman. Ramona's originally from Latvia, which is probably not as progressive in LGBTQ sentiment. So it suddenly put us in a situation where we were forced to announce it to the world probably a few months before... I just decided to put it on Instagram and announce it myself because I wasn't gonna let some journalists do it.
“The first time people laughed, I was unexpected because I didn't set out... I very quickly computed, oh, there's something about me that people find funny. So I'm going to lean into it.”
“My father's story is is quite sad. His father got murdered when he was 18... he would get very angry at the drop of a hat... he'd normally just explode and do something crazy. And sometimes whack us or grab something and throw it.”
“It was so, so real that I come out of hospital and say, Oh, I think I'm gonna become an actress now.”
“In one way to release the shame that I had for staying in a situation that wasn't great, that was my worst professional experience. And that was where it crossed the line. It wasn't comedy. It just crossed the line into an experience where, yeah, I did feel humiliated and degraded for being an overweight woman.”
“I was feeling like I know deep down I'm engaging in very unhealthy behaviors and I was ashamed of my emotional eating. Part of it, you're like, oh my god, like I've become internationally famous by playing a character called Fat Amy. I'm living this great life. I earn millions of dollars. And then the other part of me going, no, you're coming home alone. You are lonely and sad.”