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Maggie Gyllenhaal is calling out a journalist fromThe Independentwho criticized her voice in a profile of the actress.
The 41-year-old shared her thoughts on Twitter where she addresses journalist Patrick Smith for describing her voice as “cartoonish.”
“To writer@PatrickHJSmithOf course you’re free to think anything you like about the “silliness” of my voice and my face,” Gyllenhaal wrote on Twitter. “But when you open your piece in@independentcommenting on that, it serves to undermine everything we spoke about.”
Smith did not immediately reply to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
“One critic memorably said that she possessed a “Kewpie-doll silliness,” but maybe it’s a flaw in our culture that we expect serious thoughts to be couched in sonorous tones,” he continued.
In the interview,The Kindergarten Teacherstar said, “We live in a masculine world and in America — especially very recently – as much as we would like to believe otherwise, it’s a misogynistic world.”
This isn’t the first time Gyllenhaal has spoken out about experiencing criticism for her appearance. In 2015, she revealed in a roundtable discussion withThe Hollywood Reporterthat she had been told she “wasn’t hot enough” for a role.
“When I was really young, I auditioned for this really bad movie with vampires,” she said at the time. “I wore a dress to the audition that I thought was really hot.Then I was told I wasn’t hot enough.”
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She added, “My manager at the time said, ‘Would you go back and sex it up a little bit?’ So I put on leather pants, a pink leopard skinny camisole and did the audition again and still didn’t get the part. After that, I was like, ‘OK, f— this!'”
That year, the actress toldThe Wrapin an interview that she has been turned down for a movie role because of her age.
“There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time,” Gyllenhaal told the site. “I’m 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55.”
Despite the remark making her feel bad, Gyllenhaal said she was able to laugh it off and still holds out hope for women in Hollywood.
“A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women,” she said. “I don’t feel despairing at all. And I’m more looking with hope for something fascinating.”
source: people.com
