Following her second Golden Globe win for Succession, Sarah Snook is opening up about being mistreated on a film set early in her career.
Snook tells The Times that a casting director dismissed her as a “nobody” while the director and writer were pushing to have her cast in one of her first films. Upon getting the role, she reveals that they wanted to change her appearance to make her more “marketable.”
She was told: “What we’ll do is change all of you so that you’re marketable: we’ll whiten your teeth, darken your hair, we’ll give you a personal trainer so you can lose weight and look the part.”
Snook agreed to the changes, under the impression that it was the professional thing to do.
“In order for me to be successful I have to be all the things that aren’t me,” she looked back.
While working on that same film, Snook says that she had the “tiniest bit of chocolate cake” one day while on set. Upon seeing this, a producer told her off in front of the entire cast and crew, while the costume designer encouraged her to keep eating.
Snook said she was “dying inside” throughout the situation.
“The infantilizing of women, to not be able to make their own decisions, why would we do that to women?”
Since then, Snook found success playing Shiv Roy in four seasons of Succession. She has also been seen in The Beanie Bubble, Steve Jobs, and Pieces of a Woman. She will soon play 26 different characters in a theatrical production of The Picture of Dorian Gray in London.