Eline Van der Velden, a Dutch comedian, was living in Los Angeles in 2012 and going out for auditions. After being told once too often that she needed to lose weight, she created “Miss Holland,” a buffoonish character meant to mock unattainable beauty standards.
Conceived as a female version of Borat, the character won her an online comedy award and landed her on BBC Three, where she used her improv training and hidden camera videos to conduct street experiments on unsuspecting Britons in the name of social commentary.
“You learn to just not care too much about what everybody is saying and thinking all the time because you just have to do your job,” she told the Times of London. “You learn to get over a lot of shame.”
All of that was mere prelude to Tilly Norwood, the doe-eyed actress introduced by Van der Velden and her team in July.
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