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Schumer, 33, says people have got the wrong idea about her new
romantic comedy "I Feel Pretty," about a woman who suffers from
low self-esteem until she bangs her head and believes she has
become a supermodel.
An early trailer for the film, which opens in U.S. movie
theaters on Friday, was heavily criticized on social media for
appearing to fat-shame women whose bodies do not conform to
fashionably slim and toned ideals.
Schumer, however, says the message of the film is female
empowerment and self confidence, whatever one's size or looks.
"I think that we were real careful with staying on message,
which was that it's not about how anybody else sees you. It's
about how you see yourself and who you are," Schumer told
Reuters Television.
"There was this kind of strange backlash at the trailer and it
just made me excited for those people to see the movie and
realize that that's not what we're doing," she added.
Schumer plays New York bachelorette Renee Bennett, who looks in
the mirror and finds herself neither pretty, slim, attractive or
cool enough. When she tumbles off an exercise bicycle, she falls
unconscious and wakes to see herself as the woman she always
wanted to be.
Although her outward appearance has not changed, Renee is
suffused with newfound confidence and charisma, lands a great
job, finds a boyfriend and even enters a bikini contest. But she
later realizes her appearance never changed at all and comes to
understand that true self-esteem comes from within.
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Schumer, who chronicled her own issues with self-esteem in her
best-selling 2016 memoir "The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo," said
she enjoyed playing the role.
"Just living that out, playing that role, convincing myself that I
was a supermodel - it was so fun. And yeah, I left feeling, I guess,
the most confident I ever have," she said.
"I Feel Pretty" is Schumer's third feature film after a breakout
year in 2015 when she brought her writing and acting talents from
television series "Inside Amy Schumer" to the big screen with the
comedy "Trainwreck," which she also wrote.
"I Feel Pretty" was written and directed by Abby Cohn and Marc
Silverstein and co-stars Michelle Williams in a rare comedic role.
(Reporting by Alicia Powell, writing by Jill Serjeant, editing by G
Crosse)
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