It just seems ridiculous that society judges people by their weight. "They suddenly gave chase, screaming, 'Hey, Fatgirl!', and I just had to escape I ended up hiding in a box Weird stuff happens a lot in Hollywood. The memory obviously still stings."The worst moment was when I was walking through LA airport and saw a group of photographers," the actress recalls. After she played a PVC-wrapped Batgirl in Batman & Robin, some critics cruelly dubbed her "Fatgirl". Not bad pocket money for a teenager.It has not, however, been entirely plain sailing. She set up her own production company, First Kiss, responsible for such movies as 1997's Excess Baggage For this movie alone she was reportedly paid $3.3m. Her sassy performance as Cher in Amy Heckerling's fizzing transposition of Jane Austen's Emma to modern-day Beverly Hills helped the film gross $250m worldwide.Hollywood loves nothing better than a proven box-office winner, so at the age of 19 Silverstone was given a $10m acting and producing deal by Columbia Tristar.
In a precocious move, she sued her parents in order to become an "emancipated minor" and evade child-labour laws that would have restricted the time she could have spent shooting the movie.But her really big break came two years later when she took the lead as the ultimate Valley girl in Clueless. Brought up in California, Silverstone always yearned to be a performer. She laughs: "I think I was tattooed with the word 'actress' when I came out of Mom's tummy." Her desires were fulfilled in 1992 when - aged 16 - she won a small role in TV's The Wonder Years.She went on to star in Aerosmith videos and land MTV awards for Best Villain and Breakthrough Performance for 1993's The Crush, in which she played a teenager fixated on an older man. I float between being a bohemian and a punk."She may have hippie leanings, but at the same time this daughter of British-born parents - an estate agent and an air-hostess - clearly has a good business brain.
Grace encourages Violet to stay with her, but she is selfish in not wanting her sister to live. Grace is like one of those over-protective mothers who feel their daughters don't love them enough."Violet is a delicate flower, and she exhibits an acute artistic sensibility "Her whole life is a work of art," Silverstone says "It's great to lose yourself in that I'm absolutely in touch with that part of myself. It becomes a giddy, uncontrollable love."Violet had thought that her way of life was magical and for the greater good, but he challenges that and makes her think, 'what kind of existence do I have if I can't have love?'. At first, it's this crazy crush, but she ends up 100 per cent in love with Luke. Violet is desperate to fall in love, to experience the unfamiliar and to see the world outside She craves adventure She wills this fantasy romance on herself.