“Going to theatre school as a plus size actor, I felt very put in a box about which roles I could play,” said Hunter in an interview with The Coast. “It was usually the side characters, the funny characters, and there was always this question of why do we always see ingenues of the same body type? The fact that I felt like I couldn’t access those characters became frustrating, and so I wanted to examine this very famous love story, but from a fat perspective.”