Metz’s real-life story reads almost like a screenplay.
As she remembers, she was “a little spoiled with really great toys.”
“I was thinking, ‘I don’t know this woman.’
She said, ‘You really should audition,’ and I’m like, ‘Who are you?
And how do you know I should audition?’
It was so surreal because I never saw her again.”
But she had no choice she had to take it.
“There just weren’t roles,” she explained.
“And if there were, you [were] the butt of the joke.”
That’s when she started “eating my feelings” and quickly gained more than 100 pounds.
You’re like, ‘I got to deal with this.’
That is hard."
“I had one night to prepare.
So how did she react to the exciting news?
“I was jumping around my house when I heard.
I have to pinch myself to believe this is really my life.”
The experience gave her a new outlook on life.
“It was sobering,” she toldPEOPLE.
I was like, ‘I don’t want this for me.'”
But when it wrapped, there was nothing.
So I stayed."
“I went on unemployment.
I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores.
I never had to God forbid live on the streets.
When I bookedThis Is Us, I had 81 cents in my bank account.
I could cry right now just thinking about it.”
Rather, it was “a win-win for me.
Because it’s one thing to have a go at do it on your own.
Her No.
“I paid my friends and my stepdad back,” she toldGlamour.
“And three months ago I finally paid my credit cards off!”
I never got to give it to her.
Now that I’m living more comfortably, how do I share with others?
That’s what I’m trying to figure out.”
