Paltrow, who looks as tho
she grew up in Ethiopia in the mid- 80's, tries to talk about how
it's okay to be fat, and that it shouldn't matter. Well, that's
odd...if that's what you really believe, why are you so
unnaturally thin?! Get a life Paltrow...you're an actress who
does little work and makes a shitload of money, don't even try to
act like you know anything...and please, don't try to tell us
wearing a fast suit is psychologically draining. Someone, please
gag me.
Gwyneth Paltrow's Weighty
Worry
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
Is Peter and Bobby Farrelly's Shallow Hal a clever take on the
lives of plus-size women — or just a one-note fat joke à la
the Nutty Professor movies?
"The message of the film is that it doesn't matter if you're
extremely overweight or not," insists Gwyneth Paltrow, who
plays Jack Black's Rubenesque girlfriend. "That we feel it's
unacceptable is this ridiculous thing that is sociologically
imposed on all of us, when it has nothing to do with who the
person actually is.
"I didn't feel at all that it was offensive," the Oscar-winning
thesp adds. "The only fat jokes are made by an idiot, Jason
Alexander's character. He's a fool, and he's only so obstinate
about it because he has his own thing that he has an insecurity
about. It's about letting go of your perceptions of those things,
and being accepting of yourself and other people."
While studying for her role, Paltrow unexpectedly glimpsed the
pain overweight folks sometimes feel. "The first time I had
a full makeup test," she recalls, "I was at the TriBeCa
Grand Hotel in New York City, and I put on the fat suit and I
went down to the lobby and walked around. It was very interesting
because I really thought, 'Oh, I'm doing this caper' and I was
nervous about being found out.
"But when I actually walked through the lobby," she
continues, "no one would make eye contact with me. No one
would even look in my direction. I think that in your peripheral
vision, if you get a sense of somebody being slightly outside
what we all consider normal, you think it's polite not to look
— but actually, it's incredibly isolating and it really
upset me."
Apart from the psychological toll of donning her costume, the
actress also had physical woes to endure. "The fat suit was
profoundly uncomfortable and suffocating," Paltrow reveals.
"They basically Crazy Glue it to your face. So it took three
hours to get it on, and an hour to get it off. Getting it off was
almost worse because they pour this incredibly thick, syrupy
liquid Vaseline — it had the viscosity of I don't even know
what — all down in your eyes, and there were these men
shoving brushes... Ooh, it was terrible. There's not much they
can do to protect the skin. It wasn't pretty!" — Daniel
R. Coleridge
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