Do controversial fat suits ever have a place in movies like ‘Impeachment’?
nypost.comshe regrets wearing a fat suit to portray the late Linda Tripp, the White House whistleblower in the upcoming FX series “Impeachment: American Crime Story.” In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Paulson, 46, said she wouldn’t “make the same choice going forward” and acknowledged that “fatphobia is real.”But that hasn’t stopped critics from sounding off about the ways that fat suits — long used on film and television for demeaning visual gags — cause harm.Abby Rose Morris, an actor in New York City who hosts the podcast “More Than Tracy Turnblad,” which focuses on fat representation in entertainment, agrees the Golden Globe winner shouldn’t have worn a fat suit, or even gained weight, to embody Tripp.Rather, she said that Tripp should.
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