![]() Even if I’m working for a long time, it’s not that same kind of exhaustion because I know the bigger purpose, and I know the bigger picture.” “I feel so creatively stimulated as an actor. “Now I want to make it a priority where I’m not modelling anything that I can’t fit in or I can’t go into the store and actually buy.” It’s clear that, for Ferreira, the opportunity to play Kat means more than just her first acting role proper it’s a riposte to girls like her always being sidelined in fashion and on screen. ![]() “I’ve done a couple of campaigns and lookbooks where I was wearing their clothes, but the clothes were cut open at the back,” the actress sighs. She also offers, through the lens of her experiences, a mature critique of the nature of the fashion industry’s attempts at inclusivity. Today, she refers to her teenage modelling days as her “buffer period”, a stopgap allowing her to figure things out before moving into acting. As one of the best-known curve models in the game, she boasts more than a million followers on Instagram, where she’s long been the star of her own story. It’s Ferreira’s own groundedness and sense of humour that brings a buoyant determination to the character, even amid the trauma that ensues when her first sexual encounter is filmed and distributed online without her consent.įerreira is no stranger to the internet. A bookworm who is sick of being so bookish and lets her peers know she no longer gives a shit about their opinions in sartorial and performative ways. Over the course of the show, we see her transform into an emboldened young feminist who champions sex and body positivity while procuring unique fetish garments in the middle of American suburbia. Instead, she walks the high-voltage, teenage tightrope of private vulnerability and public bravado. She’s right – Kat is so much more than the ‘fat best friend’, the typical trope assigned to female actresses over a size six. ![]() You can buy a copy of our latest issue here Taken from the autumn/winter 2019 issue of Dazed. “I see kids online write stuff like, ‘Why does (Kat) annoy me so badly?’ and I’m like, ‘Because she’s not just an accessory to the other girls and she actually advocates for what she wants.’” ![]() “People aren’t used to fat characters on TV who aren’t entirely likable,” says Ferreira in a cafe in Silverlake, her new home in LA (where she moved from New York to film the show). Hot, right? What you might be surprised to learn is that, as she describes it, the 22-year-old’s dramatic debut revisits elements of her own adolescence. And she fantasises about her online followers banding together and storming her high school, wielding chains and swords a la Game of Thrones and impaling everyone who has ever talked shit about her. She struts around the local shopping mall like it’s a sadomasochistic runway. Subverting the negative attention she’s received since she was a pre-teen for not being skinny, she monetises positive male attention as a financial dominatrix trading in bitcoin. You can pre-order a copy of our latest issue hereĪs Kat Hernandez in Sam Levinson’s Euphoria, model-turned-actor Barbie Ferreira takes the male gaze, flips it and reverses it. ![]()
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