Australian actress Mia Wasikowska has lifted the lid on the dark side of Hollywood.
The Alice In Wonderland star, 33, shot to fame as a teenager in the early 2000s, before the rise of the #MeToo movement that exposed abuse in Hollywood.
Speaking to Sydney Morning Herald about her formative years in tinseltown, she told the publication: ‘I was young, I didn’t know how to protect myself.’
Canberra-born Mia, who chose not to give too much away, said most young actresses have been mistreated in Hollywood.
‘I think you would be hard-pressed to find any young woman who hasn’t experienced a level of abuse or inappropriate experiences or behaviour towards them,’ she said.
She finished by saying: ‘But it’s not really something that I discuss.’
Mia turned her back on Hollywood in recent years, relocating back home to Sydney to pursue local projects.
‘I think I’ve got less patience for the parts of the industry that I don’t like. I don’t care too much to be pushed into an image that will get me jobs,’ the All Saints star explained, referring to Hollywood as ‘repressive’.
Now, Mia is preparing to star in an Australian drama film called Blueback.
The upcoming flick is based on Tim Winton’s novel about the friendship between a boy and a blue groper.
This isn’t the first time Mia has spoken about life as an A-lister, telling The Guardian in 2019, it wasn’t always as rosy as it seemed.
When asked what advice she would give to young actors, Mia said: ‘If you really, really love it – keep going but my perspective has changed.’
She continued: ‘I’ve done this job for ten years now all over the world and after a while, it leaves you feeling hollow.’
The Jane Eyre star went on to say that while she believes acting is an ‘awesome’ job she admitted: ‘The perception is different from the reality – it is really lonely.’ (DailyMail)