Marshanda's Brave Steps To Return To Filming Through Who's Fear, 20 Kg Weight

Marshanda in the film Who Are Fearing?!

JAKARTA - Actress Marshanda has returned to the world of acting after a hiatus for four years through the new film raze Who Are Fearing?!. This time, Marshanda brought a character that was fresher and different than the role in her previous work.

To explore Moza's character, Marshanda admitted that during filming she had a weight of 74 kilograms or an increase of 20 kilograms compared to her normal weight before filming. He admitted that he was happy because he had the opportunity to be invited to play the film by director Pritagita Arianegara.

To gain weight himself, he admitted that it was quite difficult but instead found many things, especially feeling the feeling of a fat person experiencing body shaming and bullying.

According to him, the fat body he had at that time came from the director's request and the demands for a role in the film. During the shooting process, Marshanda admitted that she became more capable of eating sweet foods and containing carbohydrates so that she got fatter.

And fortunately I was fat fast, but quickly thin. So indeed, it doesn't take long for me to be fat," he said.

Marshanda also appreciated the cooperation and support from the players and the production team so that she felt comfortable returning to acting.

"It must be happy because I've been shooting for a long time too (not filming) and this is my comeback. And when I read the script, as I always said, it made me feel happy from reading the scenario, haven't filmed and haven't seen the results, it's just been from the reading process, it's already happy," said Marshanda in Central Jakarta, Thursday, September 16.

Who is Fearing?! Lifting the romantic comedy genre, tells the story of Moza who always longs for a prince's dream. Despite facing body shaming and bullying, Moza remains confident and looks cheerful.

In terms of love, he is faced with a difficult love choice, choosing Nares (played by Wafda Saifan Lubis) who is the childhood friend he hates the most, or is it Dafi (played by Marthino Lio) who is a famous and handsome director.

Long time no part of Marshanda's film project said she always opened up to directors and teams when starting a new project and tried to consider new projects as a source and a place to learn again.

"It's like I'm someone who just entered grade 1 elementary school, so I don't know what I'll know later (to learn again). Maybe that's what helps the process that I know my character and become my character," he said.

Actress Marshanda underlined the importance of always giving rise to self-confidence and overcoming the sense of insecurity regardless of the body shape you have yourself, which is represented in the film bank. Who is Fear?!.

"The feeling that we will always need to emerge is a sense of confidence," he said.

Success people and people who have excelled also still need to make themselves confident and that too in various ways. So remember to always don't focus on insecurity, but focus on how today I feel confident, happy, and comfortable with myself," added Marshanda.