Love Actually star Olivia Olson has told of how she turned her back on the big screen as she feared she was close to a "mental breakdown". Olivia played American schoolgirl Joanna in the festive favourite but decided to pursue a different career.
"The auditioning process is constant rejection and at that age, having casting directors saying literally to your face, when you are 12 years old, ‘Oh, we would like you if only you dropped 10lbs’. It’s like, ‘What?’," she told The Sun. Now 30, Olivia said her race was often at the centre of obnoxious comments as she constantly found herself being put up for Hispanic roles and asked if she could speak Spanish.“People would ask, ‘What are you?’ It makes you feel like a zoo animal,” she said.
She left viewers stunned 20 years ago when she beautifully belted out Mariah Carey's hit. Film producers even had to ask her to tone it down in a bid to make it more believable as her singing was so good.
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