Zack Sharf Digital News Director Nia Vardalos is gearing up to release “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3” in theaters, but helming and starring in a beloved rom-com trilogy was probably not something her first Hollywood agent thought was possible for her.
In an interview with MovieMaker magazine (conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike), Vardalos revealed her first agent told her she was too ugly to be a leading lady in Hollywood.
This was before she became an industry breakout with the success of 2002’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” “Sometimes I’m depicted as this very strong person who was rejected by Hollywood and therefore created my own story,” Vardalos said. “The reality is that it hurt to be told that my ethnicity and my looks were the problem.
I never had my looks categorized as being detrimental to my career. So, anyway, f- her, because look how it turned out.” “My agent told me I wasn’t pretty enough to be a leading lady and not fat enough to be a character actor,” she continued, noting that she quickly discovered such industry cruelty was not unique to her. “People were not even shocked.
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