Melanie Lynskey clapped back at Adrianne Curry for body-shaming her over her role in The Last of Us – and the former model was not pleased. Lynskey appeared in the latest episode of the HBO series as Kathleen, a leader of a group of rebels dedicated to overthrowing the fascist overlords.
Curry, retired model and the first America’s Next Top Model winner, commented on an image of Lynskey, “her body says life of luxury… not post-apocalyptic warlord,” in reference to her role in the survival series.
She continued, “Where’s Linda Hamilton when you need her?”
The Yellowjackets star quickly put an end to Curry’s unflattering comments, first clarifying that the photo is from an InStyle cover shoot and was not a still from the series. She continued, “I’m playing a person who meticulously planned & executed an overthrow of FEDRA. I am supposed to be SMART, ma’am. I don’t need to be muscly. That’s what henchmen are for.”
Firstly- this is a photo from my cover shoot for InStyle magazine, not a still from HBO’s The Last Of Us. And I’m playing a person who meticulously planned & executed an overthrow of FEDRA. I am supposed to be SMART, ma’am. I don’t need to be muscly. That’s what henchmen are for pic.twitter.com/YwkmkwUdOm
— Melanie Lynskey (@melanielynskey) February 8, 2023
The former model (now Avon salesperson) didn’t take Lynskey’s clapback lightly and responded with a jibe of her own. In a since-deleted tweet, she wrote, “Did you really take what I said about a FICTIONAL character you ACTED seriously?”
Curry continued, “You seem to have ignored where I said you, the real human in this pic, had a perfect, femine hour glass frame under this comment.” She complained, “The internet makes me so tired.”
In an unrelated tweet (also since-deleted), the model said, in jest, about Lynskey’s character: “Watching short, midwestern, soft voiced soccer moms be in charge of post-apocalyptic warlord men is SO what would happen.”
Curry went on a spree deleted other controversial tweets, including ones that poked fun at “leftists” and criticized Netflix’s Wednesday for its “constant harping on the ‘patriarchy,’” (yes, patriarchy in quotations) arguing that the eponymous character would’ve been in support of a “pilgrim theme park” because of its relations to genocide – fully missing the point that Wednesday Addams has always been an advocate for the underdogs, even beyond her love for the sick and gory (take Pugsley, for example).
“Tired of the internet,” she may be; however, one unspoken rule she should follow in the future is to never make comments about another person’s body – which she should know, given her break-up with the modeling industry which was sparked, in her since-deleted words, by her drive to “say no to a world that never hears that word.”
Nevertheless, we’re excited to see Lynskey’s future in The Last of Us, as she is, dubbed by Decider’s Meghan O’Keefe, “if not, the scariest, then the most dangerous woman on TV today.”
