{"id":907,"date":"2011-02-23T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2021-06-20T20:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T20:01:26","slug":"actress-malin-akerman-plays-aloepcia-universalis-sufferer-in-happythankyoumoreplease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/hair-loss-in-the-news\/actress-malin-akerman-plays-aloepcia-universalis-sufferer-in-happythankyoumoreplease.php","title":{"rendered":"Actress Malin Akerman plays alopecia universalis sufferer in happythankyoumoreplease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish actress Malin Akerman has shaved her eyebrows and part of her head to play a character with alopecia universalis in new film <em>happythankyoumoreplease<\/em>, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last year.<\/p>\n<p>The film is directed by and stars Josh Radnor, who is most famous for his leading role in TV series <em>How I Met Your Mother<\/em>. In an interview with Filmmaker, Radnor explains how Akerman shaved off her eyebrows and the sides of her head to play Annie, a character with alopecia universalis. This is a hair loss condition which causes the total loss of hair all over the body.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, Annie is a strong, intelligent woman trying to come to terms with her female hair loss condition and overcome her problems with commitment and self-image. Radnor says he based this character on a real-life friend of his who has alopecia, describing her as \u201chilarious and wise and wonderful, so I wanted to base a character on her\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining what it was like to play an alopecia sufferer on camera, Akerman said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Shaving off the eyebrows and wearing a bald cap was kind of freeing. It was the first time I looked in the mirror and saw somebody else. I felt like Annie became more of an interesting person because of her alopecia. It was more about finding that character than even the lack of hair&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish actress Malin Akerman has shaved her eyebrows and part of her head to play a character with alopecia universalis in new film &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucindaellery-hairloss.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}