Melanie Lynskey’s husband has gone to her defence after a former America’s Next Top Model contestant body-shamed her.
Melanie found herself the target of a tweet questioning her suitability for the role based on her body shape after appearing in the fourth episode of the smash-hit series, which follows Joel (Pedro Pascal), who is given the job of smuggling a young girl Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across the US 20 years after a pandemic swept and destroyed the world.
The Yellowjackets actress, 45, made her debut as the terrifying Kathleen, but America’s Next Top Model winner Adrienne Curry wrote in a now-deleted tweet:‘Her body says life of luxury…not post-apocalyptic warlord.’
‘Where is Linda Hamilton when you need her?’ Adrianne added in reference to The Terminator star.
While Melanie chastised the model, her actor husband Jason, 42, expressed his displeasure as well.
While he did not specifically address or tag Adrienne, he did tweet: ‘You… you could have just… not tweeted it.

‘But you did, and people are upset with what you said.’
He then jokingly said that ‘whatever happens now’, Adrienne should ‘not learn anything from this under any circumstances.’
‘Dig your heels in deeper, and double down! BECOME the victim! You can do this!! I believe in you!!’
His retweet received over 25,000 likes and several comments from fans of his reaction, as well as support for his wife, who had previously expressed her displeasure with the original statements.
‘This made me smile. I hope everyone has a significant other like Jason. What a response,’ one person wrote.




Melanie responded to Adrienne by pointing out that the photographs the model had uploaded were from an Instyle Magazine cover shot, not a production still from The Last of Us.
She added: ‘I’m playing a person who meticulously planned & executed an overthrow of FEDRA.
‘I am supposed to be SMART, ma’am. I don’t need to be muscly. That’s what henchmen are for.’
Adrienne later tweeted that she was ‘so over everything’ adding: ‘Actors can’t allow people to not like their characters? I am DONE’, and she has now deactivated her account after the backlash.
The Last of Us is available to stream on Now in the UK and HBO Max in the US.