{"id":11063,"date":"2025-07-20T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/11063\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:11:08","slug":"anthony-carrigans-hair-loss-comments-prompt-fan-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/11063\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Carrigan&#8217;s Hair Loss Comments Prompt Fan Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Carrigan&#8217;s Hair Loss Comments Prompt Fan Love<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;You&#8217;ve been very open about your experience with alopecia, which causes sort of the radical hair loss,&#8221; Stephen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O_0LlP7DkTk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">began<\/a>. &#8220;What was it like starting out in an industry that puts such a premium on standard normative looks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      Anthony, 42, admitted, &#8220;It was obviously quite a journey because when \u2014 I had it since I was a kid, and I would cover it up because it was just spots at the time. So it started as something that I would cover up. I had a lot of shame over. I didn&#8217;t really like anyone knowing I had alopecia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      Becoming an actor and living under the constant glare of Hollywood only amplified his insecurities. Anthony said, &#8220;Getting into the industry \u2014 obviously I chose the right industry to get into \u2014 but eventually, I got to the place where after being told I was never gonna act again&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;Really?&#8221; Stephen interjected. &#8220;They said you should get out?&#8221; &#8220;Oh, fully get out,&#8221; Anthony confessed. &#8220;Yeah, &#8216;You&#8217;re never gonna act again. You&#8217;re not attractive anymore. You should stop.&#8217; And this was when my hair was just really going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;So I found something within myself, this kind of self-acceptance that I never had as a kid, and now, that&#8217;s my superpower,&#8221; Anthony said, drawing cheers and applause from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>      His comments also prompted reactions online, with many sharing love and support for the actor. &#8220;Glad he ignored all that negativity and kept going cause he&#8217;s a really incredible actor,&#8221; one Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MadeMeSmile\/comments\/1m41ozb\/anthony_carrigan_was_told_he_should_quit_acting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>, while others chimed in to share their favorite TV and movie projects.<\/p>\n<p>      One person declared, &#8220;Noho Hank is one of TV&#8217;s greatest characters,&#8221; while another fan wrote, &#8220;I don&#8217;t swing that way but I always thought he was an attractive dude, he&#8217;s got some aura. Loved him in Barry.&#8221; They also praised his &#8220;top tier&#8221; performance as Victor Zsasz in Gotham and his portrayal as Metamorpho in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/tag\/superman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a> film.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;He played the hell out of Zsasz-y in Gotham,&#8221; someone said. &#8220;I was terrified of him. Then [I] realized his range when he was such a sweetheart as metamorpho\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      And of course, people were very angry and hurt to hear about all of the mean comments that Anthony had received for his hair loss. &#8220;Haters are funny,&#8221; one comment read. &#8220;they always project their hate, but if you talk to them long enough, they only hate themselves.&#8221; Another said, &#8220;Fuck you whoever told him he would never act again,&#8221; as someone else said they &#8220;feel the need to hug him right now \ud83e\udd7a&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Carrigan&#8217;s Hair Loss Comments Prompt Fan Love &#8220;You&#8217;ve been very open about your experience with alopecia, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,2553,391,3851,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-11063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-timely","tag-tv","tag-tv-shows","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}