Christine Taylor was asked to lose 10 pounds after landing Marcia Brady role in 'Brady Bunch Movie'

Christine Taylor landed her dream role as Marcia Brady in “The Brady Bunch Movie” – but the part came with a catch.

The “Brady Bunch Movie” star recalled the uncomfortable demand she received after landing the role of Marcia Brady during the “Office Ladies” podcast, revealing she was “embarrassed” but agreed to do it because “that was just how things went” in Hollywood at the time.

Taylor landed the role of Marcia after starring in a live show called “The Real Live Brady Bunch.”

 The actress had been obsessed with Marcia Brady for years and had seen “every single episode … backwards and forwards, inside out.”

But Taylor said the role also came with a request that reflected a much different era in Hollywood.“…It was a very different time in the industry,” Taylor explained of the 90s era. “The one thing that I got, and I was not a super heavy person, but they asked me to lose 10 pounds.”

Taylor emphasized that she wasn’t heavy at the time, but said dropping the weight felt like just another requirement of getting the job.

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“I was like, ‘I’ll lose 10 pounds,'” she admitted. “Of course I was embarrassed when that ask came my way because, by the way, it would never happen today. And also it just was like, I wasn’t the only person ever being asked to lose weight for a role back then. That was just how things went.”

“But I was like, ‘I’ll do it.’ And then the joke is over the course of the movie, which if you watch it very closely, I start to put the 10 pounds back on, and you can see it,” Taylor recalled. Like I’ll come into a scene looking a little rounder. And then like I exit the scene looking a little thinner just because of how they had to reshoot things.”

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Whatever pressure Taylor felt to shed weight didn’t stop her from enjoying herself once the cameras stopped rolling.

“But no, over the course of the movie, I really started to treat myself,” she explained. “Nonfat frozen yogurt was the big craze at the time. And that was my treat. I was like, ‘Oh, I wrapped. I’m going to meet my roommate. We’re going to go to the Big Chill and get a frozen yogurt with a huge thing of sprinkles on the side.'”