“Not a single particular person from Netflix, not a single particular person from Shondaland since I’ve had two psychotic breaks from that present have even contacted me and even emailed me to ask if I’m OK or requested me if I’d profit from any form of aftercare or assist,” Barker, 26, claimed on the newest episode of “The Loaf” podcast. “No one.”
Barker — who portrayed Marina Thompson on seasons 1 and a pair of of the Netflix hit — alleged that her hospitalization following her first psychotic break, which occurred shortly after season 1 filming wrapped in 2019, was “coated up” and “saved on the down-low” as a result of the present was about to premiere. (She suffered her second episode of psychosis in 2022.)
“I used to be simply then popping out of hospital [when season 1 premiered on Netflix] as a result of it took a 12 months within the edit. My Instagram followers had been going up, I had all these engagements to do, my life was altering drastically in a single day and but there was no assist,” she mentioned. “And there nonetheless hasn’t been any assist. So, I used to be making an attempt actually actually laborious to behave prefer it was OK, that is OK, and that I may work and that it wasn’t an issue.”
Barker defined feeling like she had a “metaphorical bodily gun” to her head to “promote” the “bubbly” romantic drama. “I don’t wish to then come out and poo-poo on that, as a result of then I’ll by no means work once more,” she quipped.
There have been features of her character — a distant cousin of the Featheringtons, who was despatched to their residence after turning into pregnant following a secret relationship — Barker claimed, that added to her psychological well being struggles. “It was a very tormenting place for me to be as a result of my character was, like, very alienated, very ostracized, on her personal, underneath these horrible circumstances,” she shared.
Barker first revealed in Could 2022 that she had been hospitalized for an undiagnosed psychological well being situation after realizing she had been “actually unwell for a very long time.”
“I simply wish to be sincere with all people, I’ve been struggling,” she defined through a since-deleted Instagram video. “So, I’m within the hospital on the minute, I’m gonna get discharged quickly and hopefully get to proceed with my life and I’m gonna take just a little little bit of a break from myself.”
On the time, Barker credited Rhimes, 53, for “giving her a possibility” and “saving” her throughout her time on Bridgerton. She famous that whereas she needed to drop out of a West Finish manufacturing of Working With Lions after contracting COVID-19 along with coping with her psychological sickness, she had excessive hopes for herself as soon as she was in a position to be discharged.
“I can not wait to meet all of my engagements and to have profession and life,” she continued. “As a result of I don’t want my analysis to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. I wish to survive and I’ll survive, and I’m going to. And so are you. That’s the fantastic thing about it, so are you. If you happen to’re with me, you’re in good arms. Thanks.”
After solely showing in a single season 2 episode, it’s unknown whether or not Barker will return as Marina for Bridgerton’s upcoming third season. Nonetheless, season 3’s love story will middle on characters associated to Marina, as her cousin Penelope Featherington’s (Nicola Coughlan) friendship with Marina’s former fiancé, Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton), will blossom right into a romance.
Whereas Barker has taken points with Netflix and Shondaland’s remedy of her psychological well being, she has been vocal about her reward for the present’s colorblind casting.
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“I’d seen Belle, the movie about Dido Elizabeth Belle, who was a mixed-race aristocrat within the Georgian time period. I noticed that movie and was like, ‘Wow, it might be so wonderful to play that character, but it surely’s already been made, I’m most likely not gonna be in a interval drama merely due to my race,’” she instructed the Each day Mail in a February 2021 interview. “Then, clearly, getting the casting [information] by way of from Bridgerton and seeing it’s a Shonda Rhimes factor, that range is the principle goal of the present — it was simply wonderful to be part of it.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Netflix and Shondaland for remark.
