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Whoopi Goldberg is correcting the record after a review of her new film, \u201cTill,\u201d purported that Goldberg was wearing a fat suit during filming.\n <\/p>\n

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In a mixed review, a Daily Beast reporter mentions Goldberg only once, writing that Goldberg was \u201cin a distracting fat suit\u201d for her role as Emmett Till’s grandmother. The review has since been edited to omit that line and features an editor’s note.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cI don’t really care how you felt about the movie, but you should know that was not a fat suit,\u201d Goldberg said<\/a> on Monday’s episode of \u201cThe View.\u201d \u201cThat was me. That was steroids.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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Goldberg was referring to the health challenges she experienced last year with sciatica, a type of nerve pain, for which she was hospitalized and started using a walker. She said on \u201cThe View\u201d that at the time, she was taking steroids, which can be used to treat sciatica symptoms.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt’s OK to not be a fan of the movie, but you want to leave people’s looks out,\u201d Goldberg said.\n <\/p>\n

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It’s not uncommon for a popular and awarded actress in a prestigious film to wear a fat suit, though. Plenty of stars have donned fat suits, sometimes in demeaning ways. From Gwyneth Paltrow as an obese woman in 2001’s \u201cShallow Hal\u201d to Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp in last year’s \u201cAmerican Crime Story: Impeachment,\u201d the actors inside the fat suits are often not fat. Men, too, have worn fat suits, largely in comedic roles, including John Travolta in \u201cHairspray,\u201d Ryan Reynolds in \u201cJust Friends\u201d and Eddie Murphy in \u201cNorbit.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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This year alone has seen a surge of famous actors wearing fat suits: Ren\u00e9e Zellweger in \u201cThe Thing About Pam\u201d and Tom Hanks in \u201cElvis\u201d are two examples of Oscar winners who have worn fat suits for roles. Emma Thompson wears one in the musical adaptation of \u201cMatilda\u201d due out later this year, and in the awards season vehicle \u201cThe Whale,\u201d Brendan Fraser plays an obese man at the end of his life under several pounds of prostheses.\n <\/p>\n

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Viewers often criticize the practice, particularly when a filmmaker chooses not to cast an actor whose body type already matches that of the character. In a recent interview with the New York Times, retired professor and media researcher J. Kevin Thompson said that uses of fat suits in media \u2013 particularly when the characters portrayed by actors in fat suits are made fun of or portrayed in an unflattering light \u2013 can be psychologically damaging to viewers and that women disproportionately incur most of that damage.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cThese roles were most often associated with ‘humor,’ which, of course, might not be so funny if one were the butt of the joke,\u201d Thompson told the Times.\n <\/p>\n

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For its part, \u201cTill\u201d ostensibly does not feature 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.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n