Chrissy Metz says exec asked if This Is Us role was meant for plus-size actress ‘like Kate Winslet’

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  1. > This Is Us star Chrissy Metz recently recounted a story Fogelman told her: Back when Fogelman was “pitching it originally as a film, one executive at some, I don’t know, wherever place said, ‘Oh, wait, so the plus-size girl, she’s, like, how plus size? Like Kate Winslet?’ And [Fogelman] was like, ‘First of all, what are you saying? Second of all, no, this is a real woman who’s really dealt with weight issues and it’s plagued her entire life,” Metz said on an episode of The Jamie Kern Lima Show.

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