Still Doesn't Explain "Shallow Hal"
An article about actors who gain and/or lose weight for roles. Apparently audiences "demand authenticity" so the solution is not to hire a plump girl or a skinny guy for a role, but to make a known quantity plumper or thinner.
"[Christian] Bale’s near-masochistic methods challenge us to examine our fascination with celebrity stunt dieting. Movie stars are already larger-than-life figures to us; the fact that they can manipulate their weight, apparently at will, while many Americans wage dietary trench warfare against themselves only enhances their mystique."
"[Christian] Bale’s near-masochistic methods challenge us to examine our fascination with celebrity stunt dieting. Movie stars are already larger-than-life figures to us; the fact that they can manipulate their weight, apparently at will, while many Americans wage dietary trench warfare against themselves only enhances their mystique."
posted by mo pie at 1:04 PM
1 Comments:
Possibly its easier - or at least faster - to take an actor who is otherwise perfect for the part and have them change a purely physical characteristic such as their weight than it is to take someone who looks the part and teach them to act/talk/move the way that the other person already does? I don't think this is really saying that weight loss is easy, just that its easier than learning to be a movie star.
Ah, well. Then again, think of the thousands of actors who don't change their bodies drastically for certain roles...
Loved the making of Shallow Hal, by the way, which had a lot of interesting things to say about the way that people are treated.
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