A Huge Distraction

My husband and I are in the middle of a Netflix crime series entitled "Unbelievable." The first episode, about the rape of a young woman who nobody believes is telling the truth, was intriguing enough to warrant our watching Episode 2. It proved to be equally absorbing, except for one aspect: this time the young actress playing a different rape victim is enormously obese, all the way to the point of distraction. (See photo.)

I saw this same actress (Danielle Macdonald) in another movie where her weight was an issue for both her and the plot. That made perfect sense and was not a distraction. But in this production, one has a hard time believing that a man stalked her for weeks and then broke into her apartment, dressed her up in seductive lace lingerie, took pictures of her and then raped her for hours, and all the while she looks like a blimp from the Macy's Day Thanksgiving parade. Sorry, but she is really quite fat and it is really very distracting, made more so by the fact that it is never mentioned.

Rather than be alone in her own apartment the first night after the event, the victim goes to spend the night with a friend who turns out to be a black woman (just like the best friend of the first rape victim). Of course -- who else? Maybe another friend of hers will be in a wheelchair, or maybe autistic; we might meet her in Episode 4.

This diversity in Hollywood thing is abnormal, annoying and insulting. Yes, people come in all shapes and sizes, and yes, overweight women are also victims of rape. But to deliberately cast a morbidly obese actor in a role simply to meet the requirements of the liberal woke crowd was a poor decision this time.