‘The Last Of Us’ star Melanie Lynskey is having none of ‘ANTM’ winner Adrianne Curry's body shaming

Let’s be real: actress Melanie Lynskey is a joy and delight. She steals every scene she’s in, whether she’s opposite George Clooney in Up In The Air or even Juliette Lewis and Christina Ricci in Yellowjackets. She currently stars in the video-game-cum-TV-series juggernaut The Last of Us, and she will not put up with any trash talk, especially when it comes from another “celeb.” The “celeb” in question is former model Adrianne Curry, and Lynskey clapped back at Curry’s body-shaming comments in epic fashion.

“Firstly- this is a photo from my cover shoot for InStyle magazine, not a still from HBO’s The Last of Us,” she tweeted, including a screencap of Curry’s insult.  “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.”

Oh, you know you messed up when Lynskey “ma’am’s” you.

This was in response to Curry tweeting about Lynskey, “Her body says life of luxury … not post apocalyptic warlord. Where is Linda Hamilton when you need her?” 

You might remember Curry as the first-ever winner of Tyra Bank’s America’s Next Top Model in 2003. She went on to star in a bunch of other reality TV series like The Surreal Life and My Fair Brady. And apparently, she needs all her sci-fi actors to look like a character in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Lynskey’s reply has garnered tons of applause from fans and viewers alike, with her tweet garnering over five million impressions and over 91,000 likes.

For her part, Curry deleted the tweet, but is still doubling down on her comments, trying to twist the narrative into an attempt by Lynskey’s PR team to profit from the comment.

“Sad thing she cropped that out to fit her PR agents narrative to get her press,” Curry tweeted in another thread.

In that same thread, she then attempted to excuse her comments by saying that the bodies and voices of actors are just as important as their talent. “Saying a person is miscast and stating that their voice, height and body add to it shouldn’t be an insult,” she posted.

It gets worse. She also tweeted that she doesn’t like the idea of women leading the charge in emergency situations like an apocalypse. “I don’t generally buy woman warlords in post societal collapse scenarios,” she tweeted.

Ugh. It’s time to put Twitter away, Curry. As for Lynskey, she has handled the entire situation with class, using her time to thank all the people involved in The Last of Us, and her inclusion therein. She even used it to remind us that maybe, when society collapses, we shouldn’t listen to people just because they have Terminator bodies. Maybe we should listen to their, oh I dunno, thoughts and ideas.

“The thing that excited me most about doing #TheLastOfUs is that my casting suggested the possibility of a future in which people start listening to the person with the best ideas,” Lynskey tweeted and added more thoughts to that thread.

“Not the coolest or the toughest person. The organiser. The person who knows where everything is. The person who is doing the planning. The person who can multitask. The one who’s decisive.”

“Women, and especially women in leadership positions, are scrutinized incessantly. Her voice is too shrill. Her voice is too quiet. She pays too much attention to how she looks. She doesn’t pay enough attention to how she looks. She’s too angry. She’s not angry enough.”

“I was excited at the idea of playing a woman who had, in a desperate and tragic time, jumped into a role she had never planned on having and nobody else had planned on her having, and then she actually got s**t done.”

She finished off her statement by tweeting, “I wanted her to look like she should have a notepad on her at all times. I wanted her to be feminine, and soft-voiced, and all the things that we’ve been told are ‘weak.’ Because honestly, f**k that.”

Microphone, consider yourself DROPPED. 

This isn’t the first time Lynskey has remarked about how the video game fandom surrounding The Last of Us can sometimes be A LOT when actors are cast that don’t resemble the gamer character. “I know how committed the fandom is,” she told Variety. “People can be like, ‘That doesn’t look like the person I imagined!’ So, I was grateful to not have that.”

“None of that is my responsibility,” she added.