>>76411248
Nobody wants you as the lead.
You make other people look better, and we want the leads looking best. You are not a draw to the box office except for fetishists.
You will not perform well for longer runs. You will be out of breath, lower energy, and given your mental state, will be a burden at best during tech week, and a loathsome nightmare at worst the entire process. Someone who starts a podcast about "fat liberation" is someone who is going to bog the already tight process down and make my life difficult.
You are a detriment to the technical side as well. You are harder to fit into costumes already on hand, and will require significant alterations to fit you into anything else, to the point that the costumes won't be re-usable after the process. And that's even implying you won't destroy the costumes in the first place given your awkward movements, more profuse sweating, and overall greater wear and tear post-alteration. We also have to ensure our furniture can support you which may warrant our budget going to more shit.
You do not fit the bill for the vast majority of roles out there beyond what is described. You fit into an extremely niche casting group that limits our options - we can't put you in period pieces outside of when your fatass could be sustained. We can't put you in active musicals because you cannot move well and are a liability. Without specific theming or concepts, we couldn't use you in more experimental or post-modern productions.
Millions of artist struggled to hone skills, their bodies, their minds, and fight every day for crumbs of chances. You choosing to make this the hill you die on proves your arrogance that you should be considered above them, above the concerns of the multi-disciplinary teams that make the art happen, and you should be ashamed.
>t. theatre and film professional
