Episode notes
In this week’s episode, Han is joined by Angus Castle-Doughty. Angus is an actor and film-maker known mostly for portraying Eric Foster in the award-winning Incel storyline at Hollyoaks. After taking it upon himself to lose weight for a role in a major Netflix series, he developed disordered eating and muscle dysmorphia symptoms. Now he’s making a film, Dis-Morph-Ick, in response to that experience and in a bid to increase public awareness of male eating disorders. Angus has been seen in beloved TV shows since 2020 and now is stepping behind the camera to tell this important story.
In this week's episode, we discuss:
- Angus' experience of intermittent fasting and the impact this had on his relationship with food and self.
- Angus' experience of being on holiday and the disordered thoughts that came up for him around food and ...
Keywords
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