'You' star Madeline Brewer on being called 'ugly'

Madeline Brewer is addressing online hate she's received since starring as Bronte aka Louise Flannery in the final season of You.

The actress, 33, opened up about the unexpected criticism she received despite playing the final girl who manages to kill serial killer Joe Goldberg (starring Penn Badgley).

"I'll be honest, I didn't expect people to like Brontë, but I didn't expect them to call me ugly, because I'm not," Madeline told People Magazine.

"I get that I'm not everybody's cup of tea, but I'm not ugly," she added. "I had thought that the largest fan base of this show is women, young women, and I never anticipated the amount of misogyny to be fired at me."

The Handmaid's Tale star tried to make sense of her critics' opinions.

"I think that when people are confronted with that misogyny and that deconstruction of their hero, it makes them upset," Brewer said of Joe's fate. 

"Especially pisses them off that it was a woman. It was a woman to do it. And it was also a new woman, and a woman that they might not find attractive."

"So all of that to deal with, they can't help but get on their cell phones and comment on my pictures and go, 'Oh, you're so ugly. You look like a goblin,'" she continues. "And I'm like, 'Girl, lighten up. I'm not ugly.'"

Madeline also opened up about battling such remarks back in her childhood, recalling how she was “triggered” by people suggesting her plastic surgery.

“I feel very grateful that this didn’t happen at an earlier time in my life. If this had happened when I was 25, I would have crumbled because I wasn’t in therapy yet," she told the magazine. "Being in my 30s, I don’t care. I knew I could handle it.”

The actress is aware criticism is “par for the course” of being an actor, and “now I don’t give a f***,” she said. “As long as they’re doing it to me and not somebody who can’t handle it, bring it on."

Madeline also said she gets her reassurance from her fiancé, cinematographer Jack Thompson-Roylance, who she's set to marry in July in England.

"He thinks that I'm the most beautiful woman in the whole world," she said with a smile. "He's actually the only opinion that really matters to me."

For their wedding, Madeline hopes to pull off her vision of “Bridgerton by day and Saltburn at night.”