We didn’t cover Allison Tolman during yesterday’s Golden Globes extravaganza, but here are some photos. Allison wore a sweeping black Gauri & Nainika gown (which I adore) to support Fargo. She was also nominated for best actress in a mini-series and looked genuinely bummed when she lost to Maggie Gyllenhaal. Allison did win a Critics Choice award last year, so she didn’t leave the series empty handed. It’s a bummer that she won’t return for the second season of Fargo, but the show is traveling back in time (and not for some American Horror Story-style switcheroo).

Ahead of the Globes, Allison did an interview with Time to talk about Fargo and her upcoming guest appearances on The Mindy Project and Archer. She’s a very perceptive actress and one who has encountered plenty of abuse on social media. Allison previously spoke out against body shaming, and she’s had experience dealing with that topic on her Twitter page. Here’s more on the subject:

On her increasing popularity: “I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for Fargo. One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, ‘We’re going to make a graph.’ And I was like, ‘Alright, nerds.’ But apparently somewhere there is a graph showing when my popularity increased and why.”

On the following the social media response: “I did–to my own detriment in some cases. It was so new and so exciting that I wanted to know what everyone was saying. I read the Fargo hashtag and what people Tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn’t prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me. I feel like 60% of people become a**holes as soon as they get behind a keyboard. So I had to learn not to read the comments because I’d inevitably come across something nasty somebody said about me, and it’s difficult not to let that be hurtful. So by the end of the show, I wasn’t reading as much as at the beginning because I got burned a few times.”

The journo says mean comments are “nonsensical”: “But then the problem is I want to say something back. I’m like, ‘You make it so easy. I’m so much smarter and funnier than you are, troll.’ But that doesn’t end up making you feel better. So that’s my problem, I read these things and could fall into a hole where I sass back every a**hole that I come across, but it would take up all my time and I’d rather be making television and movies.”

On diverse sizing in Hollywood: “I think The Mindy Project does a really good job showing a more diverse world where women are different shapes and different colors, and that looks more like a world I understand. I hate to always bring it back to weight, but that’s an issue that’s near and dear to me because that’s an issue I get picked on for all the time now that I’m on television. Any time I see an actress that’s over a certain size that we’re used to seeing on television, I think, wow not only is that really fantastic but unfortunately that means that somebody made a really brave choice by casting that woman in that role. I wish we didn’t live in a world where that was such a great thing. And these women on these television shows that are bigger than other actresses are like a size 8. It’s so absurd. But I appreciate it because I think that’s what we should be showing not just to our young women but also to our young men. Unfortunately how we shape our worldview is what we see in pop culture, so we need to be presenting a little more realistic view of how the world works so people don’t have such a hard go of it when they get into the real world.”

How to make a change: “I think more women, or at least more feminists both male and female, working in positions where they’re writing or producing or show-running would be helpful–people actively looking for these things. I think the only way to actually change the overall way we perceive things is to flood the market with as many diverse men and women as we possibly can. Then down the line you won’t be purposely saying, ‘Let’s make a brave choice here and cast a real woman.’ You won’t be thinking, ‘Let’s cast a Hispanic actor for this role,’ you’ll just be thinking, ‘That guy was great.'”

[From Time]

Allison makes some great points, of course. It sucks that we live in a world where it’s considered “brave” to allow a size 8 (or above) actress to grace television screens. All of this fuss, and the dudes are allowed to be schlubby. I always think back to when Leah Remini played the hot wife to Kevin James on The King of Queens. Very few people thought anything of that pairing because it’s so typical of Hollywood casting. The actress has to work hard to keep the weight off, and the dude can do whatever he wants. So ridiculous, and I’m glad some shows are changing the trend.

As for nasty comments online, that’s a tough subject and part of the nature of the internet. I always say that the internet amplifies both the good and bad aspects of humanity. It’s so common to run into abuse online, and Twitter doesn’t have much quality control. Remember that mess with Chrissy Teigen receiving death threats a few months ago? People freely let their inner douche fly under the veil of anonymity. It’s rough out there for civilians and amplified for celebrities. Allison realized it’s not worth it to argue with everyone online. Good for her! She’s talented and will go far in her career.

Photos courtesy of Getty & WENN