Star says pressure to be thin ‘is evil’

EMMA Thompson has branded the pressure put on actresses to be thin as “evil” and said the problem is getting worse.

The two-time Oscar-winner said she knew female stars who “simply don’t eat” as she spoke about anorexia in the film industry.

Ms Thompson, 57, revealed that she once threatened to quit the 2008 British film Brideshead Revisited when a co-star was told to lose weight.

In an interview on Swedish chat show Skavlan, she said: “The anorexia – there are so many actresses who are very, very thin, simply don’t eat.”

Ms Thompson also said one of the reasons she had never moved to Los Angeles was because she felt she was deemed “too fat” when she visited.