‘Gilded Age’s Louisa Jacobson Had to Take ‘Corset Breaks’ On Set: ‘My Ribs Were So Sore’

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Louisa Jacobson is revealing how she is happy to be a “female identifying person” in the current time since the “beauty standards” set for 19th century women were definitely “crazy!” In a new interview on the Reign With Josh Smith podcast, Meryl Streep‘s daughter, 30, shared how it took her “a long time” to get into the corsets she had to wear for HBO’s period piece The Gilded Age, especially “after wearing sweatpants for so long.” “Every day when I took it off, I was so grateful and I will never take for granted being a female identifying person in 2022, who does have the freedom to put on a pair of pants that are kind of loose and call it a day,” she shared on the show. “The things women had to do, it was crazy.

I realized how I’ve internalized beauty standards so intensely.” “You’ve seen Cinderella, you’ve seen any Disney movie, have you seen Frozen?

Their waists are like the size of my finger!” she added. “All the main princess characters have these tiny little waists and you grow up seeing that.

I walked on set and in my [costume] fittings too, I was like, ‘Just tighten it – I wanna look snatched.'” Related Gallery Although she succeeded in looking “snatched” in her role as Marian Brook in the historical drama, which is set in 1890s New York City, she revealed how she ultimately “suffered” from that choice. “They measured and sewed all my costumes based on how tight my corset was in the fitting when I had been really ambitious about making it very tight,” she shared. “I would say three or four months into shooting, I actually had to ask them to take out my dresses from the waist because it was just too much, it was taxing physically and mentally, I couldn’t sleep on my side for a long time because my ribs were