You Star Madeline Brewer Hits Back At 'Misogynistic' Comments About Her Appearance

Madeline Brewer and Penn Badgley in YouMadeline Brewer says she was shocked by the haters who criticised her appearance in the final season of Netflix’s You. In a new interview with People, the former Orange Is The New Black actor, who starred as Louise “Brontë” Flannery in the thriller series, said she’s aware she’s “not everybody’s cup of tea” but admitted she felt blindsided by the online hate over her looks.“I didn’t expect people to like Brontë, but I didn’t expect them to call me ugly, because I’m not,” she told the outlet. “I get that I’m not everybody’s cup of tea, but I’m not ugly.” The fifth and final season of Yo saw Brontë orchestrating the take down and arrest of the beloved serial killer and so-called lover boy Joe Goldberg (played by Penn Badgley) after he spent years murdering dozens of people. Madeline, who called herself a “huge fan” of the show, said the criticism of her appearance particularly threw her for a loop considering that women make up the “largest fan base” of the show. “I had thought that the largest fan base of this show is women, young women, and I never anticipated the amount of misogyny to be fired at me,” she continued. Madeline Brewer at the SAG AwardsThe former Handmaid’s Tale actor said she takes the criticisms in stride because it’s “par for the course” of being in Hollywood, but admitted her younger self, who used to be bullied, would have been troubled by it. Namely, the “triggering” online comments claiming she needs plastic surgery. “I feel very grateful that this didn’t happen at an earlier time in my life. If this had happened when I was 25, I would have crumbled because I wasn’t in therapy yet,” she says. “Being in my 30s, I don’t care. I knew I could handle it.”Elsewhere in the interview, Madeline shared her theory about why social media users attacked her looks. “I think that when people are confronted with that misogyny and that deconstruction of their hero, it makes them upset,” she said of Joe’s kismet in the show.“Especially, [it] pisses them off that it was a woman. It was a woman to do it. And it was also a new woman, and a woman that they might not find attractive.”She surmised that in order for viewers to “deal with” the outcome, “they can’t help but get on their cell phones and comment on my pictures and go, ‘Oh, you’re so ugly. You look like a goblin’”.Madeline added: “And I’m like, ‘Girl, lighten up. I’m not ugly.’”All five seasons of You are streaming on Netflix. READ MORE:Thought The Stars Of You Season 5 Looked Familiar? Here's Where You've Seen The Cast BeforeYou Bosses Reveal Alternative Season 5 Ending That Would Have Totally Changed The FinalePenn Badgley Had To Throw This Personal Rule 'Out The Window' For You Season 5 Sex Scenes

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