Never say Bryce Dallas Howard isn't serious about her art.

The 35-year-old actress told Marie Claire that she put on 30lbs to play a character obsessed with body image and social media on the Netflix sci-fi drama Black Mirror.

The Help star acknowledged to the magazine that the weight gain came in response to the premise of the episode she's on - in which everything is ranked on a social media number scale.

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Dedicated: Bryce Dallas Howard, 35, told Marie Claire she packed on more than 30 pounds for her role in Netflix's Black Mirror. The actress appeared in London earlier this month for a screening of the program

The Village beauty said that the backstory of her character Lacie Pound 'was a huge part of the subtext of the story,' as the character formerly battled an eating disorder and is seen on Black Mirror working to fit into a size four dress.

'I actually gained 30 pounds and I haven't lost all of it yet,' The Jurassic World actress told the publication, 'so I haven't been like, "I gained 30 pounds!"

'Because I don't know if people can tell the difference.'

Look familiar?: Howard's episode takes place in a futuristic society in which everyone and everything are rated and graded by numbers

Bryce, who has two children with her 35-year-old husband Seth Gabel, expounded on the storyline of the show: She said that her character Lacie finds herself under the gun when her bride-to-be pal Naomie (Alice Eve) sends her a size four dress to wear as one of her bridesmaids, 'and obviously Lacie doesn't fit into it,' Howard said. 'At the end, she couldn't even zip the dress fully up.'

Without getting into spoiler specifics, Howard said that during a critical later moment for her character in the show, she 'wanted to play the moment like she was almost suffocating.

'She takes off the dress, and is metaphorically naked for the first time. That's the moment when she engages ... and there's love, and she's accepted as she is.'

Devotion: The redhead beauty said she's still shedding the last of the 30 pounds she put on to play the role of Lacie Pound, a woman obsessed with her appearance and social media rank

Howard said that the desperation embodied in her Black Mirror role is reflective on a grand scale in a social media-driven society where looks are valued at a premium.

'In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire,' the daughter of Hollywood legend Ron Howard told the magazine, 'and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive ... it's a truly superficial thing, and there's a cost to that.'

She said that the episode of the program, titled, Nosedive, 'asks, "What are the ways we oppress our authentic selves?" and that's a true form of oppression for women.'

Seeing through it all: Bryce said pressures on women to have a perfect figure for their social media pics strike her as a 'subversive' distraction, meant to preoccupy women 'with something that doesn't matter'

She said that the intense pressure on women to have a perfect figure for their social media pics strikes her 'a subversive thing which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes up a lot of space, and prevents people from what they're meant to be doing.'

Howard told the publication that the biggest lesson she gleaned from the episode was that people need to understand that social media, is, in essence, a 'cartoon universe,' presenting a deliberate and manicured version of reality.

'The clearer that division is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves,' the actress said. 'You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do, and how much pain people are in every day - so that's my mental change.'

Promotional trail: Bryce is pictured here at the This Morning studios in London earlier this month

The introspective entertainer is not the only performer to ever intentionally gain or lose significant sums of weight for their craft.

Matthew McConaughey lost 50 pounds for his brilliant, Academy Award-winning performance in Dallas Buyers Club, telling the BBC that he 'did it in as healthy a way as I found possible.'

His Oscar-winning co-star in the 2013 film, Jared Leto, added a whopping 60 pounds to play John Lennon's portly murderer, Mark David Chapman, in 2007's Chapter 27.

Whatever it takes: Both Matthew McConaughey (left, from Dallas Buyers Club) and Jared Leto (in Chapter 27) have undertaken rash diets for their roles in biopics

'Toward the end of the shoot, one of the glaring issues was the pain I had with my feet,' Leto told the New York Daily News. 'I couldn't walk for long distances; I had a wheelchair because it was so painful. My body was in shock from the amount of weight I gained.'

Perhaps the most famous, and dramatic, illustration of Hollywood weight gain was witnessed around the waist of screen legend Robert De Niro, who packed on 40 pounds over four months to portray boxer Jake LaMotta in 1980's Raging Bull.

Like McConaughey, the tremendous physical changes the actor underwent to preserve authenticity came with a pot of gold at the end of the tunnel - Oscar gold, as the venerated actor took home the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1981.