Rachel Brosnahan‘s unique costumes forTheMarvelous Mrs. Maiselwere not a painless feat.
While appearing onThe Late Late Showwith hostJames Cordenand guestRu PaulMonday night, the 29-year-old actress revealed that she had suffered from a “corset-related injury” from constantly having to wear one to achieve Midge Maisel’s look.
“We talk so fast on the show that to get all the words out you can’t really take very many breaths,” she explained to Corden and Paul, who was an additional guest on the late-night talk show. “And I think I wasn’t breathing a lot and I was a bit constrained and apparently some of my ribs are sort of fused together.”
“I can’t take super deep breaths anymore,” Brosnahan added.
When the drag queen, 59, gasped at her revelation, the Emmy Award-winning actress reassured him that she was doing well despite the injury.
“It’s really fine guys. Champagne problems,” she joked.
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Brosnahan stars as the lead character in the Amazon period drama, and she isn’t the first Hollywood star to come forward about their struggles with corsets and costumes on set.
In 2018,Emma Stone— who scored a best supporting actress nomination for her role inThe Favouriteat theGolden Globes, Oscars andSAG Awardslast year — opened up aboutthe horror of having to shoot in a corsetin order to fit the time period of the film.
“Women existed like that for such a long time, which gives you a lot of sympathy for that time period and what they were going through,” Stone, 31, said on theGraham Norton Show. “For the first month, I couldn’t breathe.”
“After a month, all my organs shifted — it was gross and if you don’t have to, don’t do it!” she added.
Similarly,Kim KardashianWest admitted that her custom-made Thierry Mugler “dripping wet” dress for the 2019 Met Gala left her so much pain because of the corset she had to wear underneath to achieve her ultra-tiny waistline.
The custom corset was tied so tightly around her frame, Kardashian West wasleft with markings on her bodyafter she peeled the piece off at the end of the night. It took three assistants to strap her into the corset before the beauty mogul could slip into her mini dress that was dripping with crystals.
Kardashian West also had to havespecial breathing lessons from Mister Pearlbefore wearing it to the Met Gala.
source: people.com
