These Models Marched the SAG-AFTRA Picket Lines. Now They’re Fighting Against AI ‘Digital Blackface’ and Working for ‘Glorified Pimps’
variety.comTatiana Siegel Alyssa Sutherland was 15 years old when she was discovered by a modeling scout in her native Australia. As soon as the 5’11” strawberry blonde finished high school at the age of 17, she moved to New York and began traveling the world on high-end fashion assignments before settling in Los Angeles to focus on acting.
Although she found success in both professions as a go-to face for Chanel and Bulgari and as Queen Aslaug in the hit TV series “Vikings,” she endured her share of humiliations.
But there was one major distinction. “I’ve experienced people trying to bully me into being naked, both as an actress and as a model, and those experiences went very differently for me,” she notes.
As an actress, her contract contained a nudity rider that stipulated any such requests had to be discussed two weeks prior and couldn’t be sprung on the actress during production.
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