Murphy was pressured to be a certain body type: Amy Heckerling
News
oi-Staff
New
York
(ANI):
With
rumours
linking
Brittany
Murphy"s
frail
frame
to
her
death,
Clueless
director
Amy
Heckerling
has
said
that
she
believes
Hollywood
played
a
large
role
in
transforming
the
actress
from
a
round-faced
teen
to
a
rail-thin
adult.
Heckerling
told
Usmagazine.com
that
she
is
upset
with
Hollywood
for
transforming
Murphy"s
image.
"It
just
seemed
like
she
was
blowing
up,
being
on
every
magazine
and
being
treated
as
though
she
had
suddenly
become
beautiful," the
New
York
Daily
News
quoted
Heckerling
as
telling
the
mag.
"And
I
think
she
was
feeling
very
good
about
that.
I'm
just
not
happy
with
Hollywood,"
she
added.
Heckerling
said
Murphy's
size
wasn't
the
only
thing
that
was
worrisome.
She
said
that
in
recent
years,
the
32-year
old
actress
'seemed
a
little
too
energetic'.
"I
just
feel
like
I
can't
say,
'Oh,
she
was
on
drugs'.
I
can't
say
that
I
noticed
anything
that
led
me
to
believe,
'Oh
my
god,
this
person
is
messed
up'.
But
one
hears
rumblings.
It's
a
small
town,
and
you
hear
from
other
people
on
other
crews,
but
that's
all
rumors
and
stuff,"
Heckerling
said.
"I
was
feeling
--
maybe
not
just
then
at
that
particular
time,
but
over
time
--
that
she
was
maybe
being
pressured
to
be
a
certain
body
type
and
a
certain
kind
of
actress
as
far
as
playing
the
sexy,
blonde,
thin
girl,"
Heckerling
says.
"And
that
she
was
buying
into
what
she
was
supposed
to
be,
rather
than
just
being
a
wonderful,
innocent
young
girl,"
she
added.