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I photographed Aubrey Plaza for this week’s issue of Time Magazine !

Photo: Signe Pierce

Assistants: Tayler Smith + Xan Violet

~ obviously this will contain some spoilers ~ 

So I just finished To The Bone… and I thought the overall ED portrayal was good, and Lily Collins is an amazing actress, so I can’t fault her at all. 

But I really disliked the movie overall, the Luke character was so cringeworthy I honestly couldn’t even stand him, pretty much every time he opened his mouth I couldn’t wait until he closed it. I mean I’m appreciative of the fact that they had a male with an ED like yes, good awareness and all, but some of the things he said.. and the relationship with Ellen/Eli was so unnecessary. 

I think the movie would’ve been a lot more of a success (to me, anyway) if that never happened. Have the movie focus on the eating disorders, not on boy meets girl, and boy professing his love after knowing her for barely a couple weeks and shoving all his problems on her like oh poor me and my knee, you can’t leave now! screw your needs, I need you, ignore the fact that I know barely anything about you.. but you’re my everything now. 

I fucking hate that. Make a movie about a mental illness, and focus on that. The movie should’ve just been Ellen/Eli coming to terms with her illness, and I know friends/relationships are an important part in recovery but somebody else cannot save you, fix you or cure you from a mental illness. They can support you, but I’m sick of movies/shows like these having boy meet girl, and suddenly everything being right in the world. I would’ve liked it so much more if they just became amazingly close best friends or some shit who supported each other throughout their EDs instead of the weirdly, unneeded, forced romantic relationship that occurred. 

(Also some of the shit that he said.. if you said half of that to me I’d probably punch you in the face.. like those weirdly sexual questions? dude chill out)