Emma Thompson Wearing ‘Degrading’ Fat Suit In Matilda Is Offending People

Hey... how about get a real overweight actress to play the role instead? It's not like they're not around. Call me!

So they're saying fat people are evil child haters?

The character isn’t “fat” per se. She’s just a rather large athletic woman. Kind of like Coach Balbricker from Porky’s.

Ok, she’s fat.

So let them be offended. You can't please every crazy.

The fatties are correct on this.

Emma's awfully outspoken and pious on any number of other issues, but she's on the wrong side of this one.

these SJWs have too much time on their hands

Easier and less harmful to her than gaining weight. Big deal. She an actor playing a role.

Emma can wear whatever the fuck she wants to help herself portray her characters in a way that resonates for her.

The critics are a bunch a ninnies with nothing better to do than be offended and they can go fuck themselves.

Fuck 'em. Let 'em lose weight.

The sheer ignorance of this astounds me. The character design is based on the original book illustrations. Most anyone who has read the book would be disappointed if the design was too far from the original. Second, where were these people when the character in the musical was portrayed by a man, in a very similar costume? It is pretty clear that the critics no nothing about the material. They are just having a knee-jerk reaction to something that they really don't understand.

This is getting ridiculous. Next they’ll come for drag queens.

"It’s not ethical, authentic or representative of any lived experiences whatsoever.”

But it IS acting.

Hearing "lived experience" makes me want to puke.

Trunchbull isn’t fat. Her physicality is grotesque but cartoonish, and is not to be found in any naturally-shaped person. She can only be portrayed, on film on stage, with the use of prosthetics.

I miss the days when stupid people would just shut the fuck up.

OMG! Like, this is SO outrageously impor-int! Much more than, like, stupid abortion!

These outraged SJWs should never, EVER know anything about Roald Dahl. Who would be laughing his ass off at this.

Oh, they know he was guilty of racism or antisemitism or whatever! They've just never read any of his books.

R5 Go eat your feelings.

Does she also wear blackface as Harry Belafonte?

What if she gained weight for the part like Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull? Would THAT be OK?

I've been a little depressed and camped out in a nearby bakery lately! I'm not wearing a fat suit, and how dare you assume I'm not just pregnant!

[quote]The fatties are correct on this. Emma's awfully outspoken and pious on any number of other issues, but she's on the wrong side of this one.

I have to admit that for the first time I felt the fatties were right to criticise Thompson on this, especially with her comments about getting people, especially young trans kids(!) to love their bodies and accept their flaws when promoting her film where she goes full tit and minge.

Roald Dahl is a notorious anti semite ("I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason") and a notorious misogynist.

Most of the villains are women and physically disgusting. It would actually be more progressive to have Miss Trunchbull as a stereotypically attractive woman rather than make her hideously ugly.

Rather thin-skinned, aren't they.

Have they never heard of Madea? OP

Wasn't Ralphf Fiennes supposed to play her at first?

Emma's good in the role and only a few years ago, people were mad that the stage musicals were casting men as the Trunchbull.