Whoopi Goldberg says she hasn’t worn a fat suit for “yet,” to correct references

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Whoopi Goldberg corrects the record after reviewing her new movie, “untilGoldberg allegedly wore a fat suit during filming.

in mix reconsidering, The Daily Beast reporter Goldberg mentioned only once, writing that Goldberg was “in a fat, distracting suit” for her role as Emmett Till’s grandmother. The reconsidering It has since been modified to delete this line and features an editor’s note.

“I don’t really care how I felt about the movie, but you should know that this wasn’t a fat jumpsuit,” Goldberg He said On Monday’s episode of “The View”. “That was me. Those were the steroids.”

Goldberg was referring to health challenges lived last year With sciatica, a type of nerve pain, she was hospitalized and started using a treadmill. She said on “The View” that she was taking steroids at the time, which can be used to treat sciatica symptoms.

“It’s nice not to be a fan of the movie, but you want to leave people’s looks away,” Goldberg said.

It is not uncommon for a famous and award-winning actress in a prestigious movie to wear a fat suit. Lots of stars don fat suits, sometimes in humiliating ways. From Gwyneth Paltrow as an overweight woman in Shallow Hal 2001 to Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp In last year’s American Crime Story: Impeachment, the actors in fat suits often aren’t fat. Men have also worn fat suits, largely in comedic roles, including John Travolta in “Hairspray,” Ryan Reynolds in “Just Friends” and Eddie Murphy in “Norbit.”

This year alone has seen a wave of famous actors in fat suits: Renee Zellweger in “The Thing About Pam” and Tom Hanks in “Elvis” are two examples of Oscar winners who have donned plump suits for roles. Emma Thompson wears one in the musical adaptation of ‘Matilda’ due later this year, and in the awards season car “Whale” Brendan Fraser He plays a fat man towards the end of his life under several pounds of prosthetics.

This practice is often criticized by viewers, especially when the filmmaker chooses not to choose an actor whose body type already matches the character of the character. In a recent interview with The New York TimesJ. Kevin Thompson, retired professor and media researcher, said that the use of fat suits in the media — particularly when characters portrayed in fat suits are ridiculed or portrayed in an indifferent light — can be psychologically harmful to viewers and that women are disproportionately You incur most of this damage.

“These roles have often been associated with ‘humour,’ which, of course, might not be very funny if one of them was humour,” Thompson told The Times.

For its part, “Till” doesn’t seem to show actors in fat suits. The film, which focuses on Mamie Till’s activism and her contributions to the civil rights movement after the murder of her son Emmett, will be released on October 14.