Patricia Arquette shared that she was always deeply self-conscious about one thing as she entered Hollywood as a young actress.
The 57-year-old actress revealed that she felt very uncomfortable being cast for her looks in movies like True Romance.
The Severance star went on to share that she tried really hard to fight the pressure of being Hollywood’s next “It” girl, in an interview with Page Six.
Arquette elaborated, “I really was conscious about trying to get out of that ingenue situation as quickly as possible. Beauty felt really dangerous to me and a bit scary. It also felt one-note, and felt like [it had] a short shelf life.”
The Lost Highway actress was then relieved to do movies like Human Nature, which didn’t focus on her beauty. She enjoyed the project which showed her “covered in hair,” because, “I didn’t want to be limited by my own beauty. I didn’t even feel beautiful myself, but the world was treating me like that, so I always had a really intense conflict with that.”
Arquette then got interested in things behind the camera and she told the outlet that her previous fear started to affect her casting chouces.
“I was like, ‘Oh, no, maybe that’s distracting.’ Then I was like, ‘Hold on, what is this reverse bias I have?’” she recalled thinking.
However, she was able to fight off the thought process and didn’t let it change her perception of who a good actor is.
