I said to [my] agency, I have a real problem being a size six — which is what I was at the time — and playing a chubby friend. I hate that these role… - Melanie Lynskey

I very much want to be onscreen representing an interesting person who's not paying attention to what her tummy looks like ... If there were more people [onscreen] who look like me, then I wouldn't have to talk about it as much.

I have this sort of weird thing where people know me from one [project] and then think I've never worked again. And they'll say, "Do you ever think about acting? Do you think about acting again?"

The first audition I ever did [in America], the casting director said, "I don't know why you're here. You're never going to work [here]. You don't look right. You don't have the right kind of personality. I don't even know if you can do an American accent. Maybe you can try England." ... It made me more determined.