Melanie Lynskey Slams ‘Top Model’ Winner For Body-Shaming ‘Last Of Us’ Comment

Melanie Lynskey received’t be body-shamed — significantly not about her newest HBO hit.

The “Final of Us” actor addressed a since-deleted tweet Wednesday from “America’s Subsequent Prime Mannequin” alum Adrianne Curry, who shared a photograph of Lynskey and stated: “her physique says lifetime of luxurious…not submit apocolyptic warlord. the place is linda hamilton while you want her?”

Followers of the unique 2013 online game have possible observed that Lynskey’s character, Kathleen — who heads a revolutionary motion within the battle towards the FEDRA navy regime — is an authentic determine particularly created for HBO’s well-liked TV adaptation.

Lynskey thus had no time for Curry’s comparability to Linda Hamilton’s trim “Terminator” protagonist.

“Firstly- it is a photograph from my cowl shoot for InStyle journal, not a nonetheless from HBO’s The Final Of Us,” Lynskey tweeted with a screenshot of Curry’s deleted criticism. “And I’m enjoying an individual who meticulously deliberate & executed an overthrow of FEDRA.”

“I’m imagined to be SMART, ma’m,” she added. “I don’t must be muscly. That’s what henchmen are for.”

Curry claimed in a follow-up tweet that Lynskey “cropped out what I stated about her excellent hour glass body being essentially the most fascinating to males,” and referred to as Lynskey’s screenshot “manipulative.” She also tweeted: “actors cant enable folks to not like their characters? I’m DONE.”

Lynskey later supplied a series of tweets concerning the struggles confronted by girls in male-dominated industries, in what could have been a response to Curry’s preliminary criticism.

“Girls, and particularly girls in management positions, are scrutinized incessantly,” Lynskey wrote in one of the tweets.

“I used to be excited on the thought of enjoying a lady who had, in a determined and tragic time, jumped into a task she had by no means deliberate on having and no one else had deliberate on her having, after which she really bought shit executed,” she wrote in another.

Neil Druckmann’s award-winning sport earned widespread reward and have become one of many best-selling console efforts of all time. Its premise, of a person and a younger woman navigating the U.S. after an outbreak has turned folks into zombies, was actually up showrunner Craig Mazin’s alley.

“Druckmann is with out query the best storyteller working within the online game medium, and ‘The Final of Us’ is his magnum opus,” Mazin informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2020. “Getting an opportunity to adapt this breathtaking murals has been a dream of mine for years.”

That dream finally garnered 7.5 million viewers for Sunday’s episode, the fourth of the sequence, per the Los Angeles Occasions. This was not solely 17% increased than the viewership for the third episode, however a shocking 60% increased than the sequence premiere in January. For Lynskey, subverting expectations is what it’s all about.

“I perceive that some individuals are mad that I’m not the everyday casting for this function,” she tweeted Wednesday. “That’s thrilling to me. Aside from the moments after motion is known as, while you really feel such as you’re really in another person’s physique, essentially the most thrilling a part of my job is subverting expectations.”