Alyson Stoner, the former child and teenager actor from “cheaper from dozen” and “Camp Rock”, who also had a celebrated career as a dancer in the “Step -up” films and various Missy Elliot music videos, publishes a memoir this month about the ups and downs of her career in Hollywood. In a new move of published by Vanity fairIt reveals the brutal diet and exercise regime, which she won in the middle of an eating disorder that won the role of Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games”.
“Katniss was the ultimate role and the ultimate strong female main role: purpose -oriented, sharp, sporty and luckily a heroine whose capacity was more important than physical beauty. But the role played with fire for me,” writes Stoner. “Katniss was characteristic – not hungry, but small enough to grow up in a Lower district – and from hunting and archery. If I wanted to devote myself to checking every box of character description, I had to commit myself to exhausting training without succumbing to my eating disorder.”
Stoner admits that it is a former Disney Teenager star who was a “long shot” “The Hunger Games”, but she stuck to the hope because it was not too “unrealistic that a director stormed an unexpected person out of the crowd and also turned them into a star.”
At the age of 17, Stoner was admitted to participating in a “world -famous medical weight loss camp” to help her get into the form of Katniss Everdeen, although she was already drastically underweight. The program consisted of “two weeks of seven hours of daily movement to a calorie deficit”.
“I did not recognize the irrational exceptions that doctors (and society) did for Hollywood because it was everything I knew,” writes Stoner. “Even at the age of 10, I had to get medical physics before I filmed dozen and an industry -related doctor discovered a heart sound. After I had said that I had dizzying spells and power failures, he did not mark anything in my file because she could let the production company work from you. found that Hollywood has to exist on medicine, about the law and even common sense.
“Doctors and coaches would never have allowed a underweight minor to carry out seven hours of fourteen miles long hikes, heavy lifting and cardio with great intensity,” she continued through her preparation of her “hunger games”. “But everything I had to say was that I trained for an acting role. They rated me mentally stable and opened the door. Then I took on days (and all my intellectual stability) in a nearby forest to build tactical skills like Katniss.”
The brutal preparation procedure Stoner prevailed when it did not land the role. In the memoirs she reveals that she was the last actress for Katniss. While she was told that she should prepare three scenes from the script, you were cut in the audition room. She was quickly hurried out of the room without feedback after reading and waiting days that the news arrived when her body “went into hunger into hunger and screamed for calories”.
“After a week [of waiting to find out]I came by on the sidelines of the deprivation into a full-body emergency valley for food, “writes Stoner. I spread a modest amount of peanut butter on salt zone crackers. 350 calories are okay to add. But I was starved. An hour later I rationed a package with a sugar-free immediate flakes and added protein powder.
Stoner went into a full binge and plunged a “pint ice from the back of the freezer” and “Wolfing Down chips, popcorn, chocolate bars and whatever was within reach, until my jaw was too painful to push up with the pants, the greatest effort of my life and faded in delirium on the couch.” On the couch. «« «« «.
“Twelve hours later I woke up to a repulsive migraine and a lethargy. Somehow I still longed for sugar. But before I could think about spoiling another day, I had to look at the self -inflicted damage of the night before,” she continues. “You are probably three pounds, but it's your fault and you have to repair it. When I stepped on the scale, I rubbed my eyes in disbelief. What the hell?
Shortly after the call from the “The Hunger Games” team went down, in which Stoner was informed that she did not get the role of Katniss Everdeen. She closed: “I was sitting on my bed with free eyes and a distant mind. I didn't know what to do with myself.”
Stoners Memoiren, “Half -Repeat, despite literally everything”, published on August 12th. Go to The Vanity Fair website To read the excerpt “The Hunger Games” in its entirety.