Jodie Whittaker has revealed that she was told to change her looks during the early days of her acting career before landing high-profile TV gigs.
The 36-year-old Doctor Who actress recalled being told that she needed to fill a line on her forehead and that she should consider a lip wax.
However the Broadchurch star added that she is now relieved that she wasn't easily influenced as a young girl and didn't make any alterations she may now regret.
Harsh criticism: Jodie Whittaker has revealed that she was told to change her looks during the early days of her acting career before landing high-profile TV gig
Discussing the frown line she was told to 'fix' by producers, during a chat on David Tennant's podcast, Jodie said: 'I wouldn't change it for the world and there are a lot of episodes where you're squinting and I think if I didn't have that frown line you wouldn't know it was sunny.'
Jodie slammed any suggestions that she would get her line filled, adding: 'Would I heck! It's not even vanity and I'm too young.
'I also think it's an undeniable pressure on humanity at the moment to look your best a lot of the time and I'm lucky that my journey through the world of acting has been about screwing my face up and nagging my eyes out.
Rude! The 36-year-old Doctor Who actress recalled being told that she needed to fill a line on her forehead and that she should consider a lip wax (pictured on the set of The Kid in 2009)
'It wasn't about being the ingenue; there wasn't that pressure to look a certain way.
'It has been asked though. There were certainly times when I was younger that in certain scenarios there were suggestions that "potentially you might want to think about certain stuff", and it fascinates me.
'I think I was doing a camera test for something and – I will say something, because I can't be a***d with the repercussions of what it was – and someone said (of her forehead line) "It is
