On 'Euphoria', Kat Hernandez is confident, sexual, and real. Barbie Ferreira discusses how she brought the character to life.
never saw characters like Kat Hernandez. "A lot of the auditions I get are very stereotypical plus-size roles where either she's very insecure or one-dimensional," the 22-year-old tells. "So when I read the sides for [Kat], I had to really take a moment. I called my agent and said, 'It's like they're in my head.' It was a fully developed character. I related to her so much."for its unwavering portrayals of adolescent drug abuse, sexuality, and body image.
But after she loses her virginity at a party and footage of it ends up online, something changes in Kat. Hurt and traumatized by this incident, not to mention the years of body-shaming she experienced, she reclaims her sexuality. She becomes a cam girl whose clients pay to be degraded by her. She has sex with the high school's former golden boy. She buys revealing clothes.
"Yes, of course Kat's body-shaming has happened and influences her, but it doesn't take up the entire narrative," Ferreira explains. "Having a character that isn't perfect and is making mistakes and has her own storyline in a show—we need to have more of that, where people aren't caricatures of themselves. They are full human beings and their identities aren't necessarily at the forefront of all their problems.
This doesn't mean Ferreira wants to brush off Kat's body image. On the contrary, she's appreciates howis creating visibility. "I don't really see a lot of fat girls who are hot and secure in themselves on film and TV," she says. "I think it's always, 'Here's a best friend who's funny' or you're just the joke.
Had Kat come along sooner, Ferreira thinks it might have saved her from years of thinking she wasn't thin enough to become an actor. "As a kid, it was really horrible, but I had this toxic mindset of, 'I have to lose weight to be an actor, to be taken seriously,'" she says. "But seeing a character like Kat on screen is only half the battle. Ferreira wants moreof body diversity present in the pop-culture we consume.
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