“There's a freedom in being a fat woman without having to do the labor of talking about fatness all the time,' says star Aidy Bryant, whose show Shrill returned for a second season on Friday.
“In the first season, we really used [West’s book] as a map, and going into season two, we had already built that foundation and just got to get into the fun bit,” Bryant tells me at New York City’s Beekman hotel. “We got to leave some of the ‘body positivity’ behind and get into the nitty-gritty of Annie and Fran’s lives.”
When I ask Bryant whether she felt a level of societal pressure about representing fat women, she’s very definite. “Of course,” she says. “When I’m onscreen, I’m representing a fat woman, whether I like it or not, but there’s a freedom in being a fat woman without having to do the labor of talking about fatness all the time. You’re living your life, and then it kind of hits you like a raindrop or something. It’s not an all-day, every-day thing.
Bryant has big dreams for Annie—that doesn’t include losing weight, by the way—but chief among them? “I want her to find a sort of inner peace.” Bryant notes that while Annie does finally find a loving partner in Ryan , season two also sees her questioning what she’s been taught to want and what she might actually deserve.
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