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I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Cameron Esposito

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Jameela Jamil, Storytelling, Disasters, Personal Journals, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Actor, stand-up, and author Cameron Esposito joins Jameela this week to discuss their relationship with their eating disorder and struggling with their gender identity, how they realized they are gender-fluid and what that means to them, how taking their top off on network television has helped them love their body, and more. Check out Cameron Esposito's book - Save Yourself - wherever books are sold. And listen to Cameron's podcast - Queery. You can follow Cameron on Instagram and Twitter @cameronesposito

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jumila Jamil, a podcast again shame.

0:04.9

I hope you're well. I am, you know what, I'm having a bit of a surreal week of, I'm honest, I

0:11.0

have had the poster just drop for my new character, Titania, in Marvel's new big show, She Hulk,

0:18.7

which is out on August the 18th on Disney Plus. And it's only really starting to truly hit

0:26.1

home now, seeing my name and then seeing the character Titania's name together is mind blowing

0:34.1

because I have always loved this character, it's all my favourite character from the comics,

0:38.1

I think she's so bizarre and complex and I often think if I'd known I was playing her when I

0:47.0

auditioned because obviously Marvel don't tell you fuck all and it's not until you sign the contract

0:51.5

that you even have any idea who you're playing, but I, I think I wouldn't have gotten the job

0:59.6

if I knew how big this was, I thought I was just playing a sort of tiny cameo who doesn't have

1:07.6

any action. And honestly that was quite appealing to me because I'm very lazy and I don't like doing

1:11.8

a lot of exercise and also I have Aylah's download syndrome which means that I have a very complicated

1:18.5

body and health condition and my joints dislocate a lot and I'm super, super bendy, not, not,

1:25.1

not only in the hot way, also in the very inconvenient and unsafe way and I generally am just not,

1:33.6

not like a super fit or super well person. So I can't actually believe that even after finding out

1:39.9

I had a list and a syndrome, Marvel would just say yep you can still do it, you're doing all your

1:45.0

own stunts almost all my own stunts. Obviously I had the most amazing stun crew around me to support

1:50.2

me, but I did like 90% of my own stunts and they just got me a physiotherapist to be with me on

1:57.6

set because they are the best. And it honestly shows me that I really cannot dress enough that we

2:07.9

have no idea what we're capable of and we write ourselves off for so many opportunities so early.

2:13.6

If you told me 20 years ago that I would be playing a super active super villain in Marvel,

2:19.8

I would have laughed you out of my house. And so I hope you can join me in my delusional girl summer

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