Turns out they ALL did it.

i want to read it from start to finish, but i know i’ll just skip to the end to see if trump dies.

I’m also fat and don’t disagree with you, and I’m not really sure what in my comment made you think I needed to be educated on this point. I wasn’t defending Moore’s casting or her desire to wear a fat suit for the role. I was merely clarifying for the previous poster who hadn’t seen the movie how Israel’s weight was…

There are two differences in the Stan and Ollie situation: 1) the person was going to have to look like someone who is very famous and so prosthetics were going to come into it anyway, and 2) Reilly plays the character at two different eras and weights so there were two different suits. Even if you had hired a larger…

Although given what a huge disadvantage larger actors are already at, particularly large women, it’s cruel to give the part to a smaller actor who is likely to be cast more often. (Yes, I know Melissa McCarthy hasn’t been hurting for work, but she’s the exception that proves the rule.) As a fat lady, I do find fat…

I’d just like to add Richard E Grant is a cat whisperer. My cat HATES car rides, yowls the whole time, he’s stressed, I’m stressed, it’s a very unpleasant experience taking him anywhere. But! one time I happened to be listening to an audio book narrated by Richard E Grant. The cat curled up and went to sleep for the…

Where was Kathy Bates?

Is it too much to ask to not have 130lb straight white women playing everyone? Including Asians, fat women, lesbians, trans men... hell I’m sure they’d try black women if that weren’t shamed heavily year after year. I know its acting but god... there are other actors who are never even given a chance before we just…

Instead of putting skinny actresses in a fat suit, they can just, you know, hire a fat actress. It’s not rocket science. 

He has a great memoir, With Nails, I’d encourage any fan to check out.

I think people are starting to view women in fat suits in the same way they’re viewing casting for cisgender actors to play trans roles, or “abled” actors playing people with disabilities - it’s more about the idea that there are some people who don’t get represented very often on screen, and it would be great if we…

Grant’s role in this was his most Withnail performance since Withnail & I. It was a nostalgic delight.

You just made Liza cry. Now she needs a drink, at that’s making her cry, too.

I think that, because her work is intensely vaginal, it makes you uncomfortable.

This feels like one of those obvious solutions to just have actors of all shapes, colors, and sizes instead of continuing to hire the usual dozen of Famous People Who Are Thin.

It wasn’t Nicole Holofcener’s first time directing a movie (I love Walking & Talking—her first feature—and I have to watch it every few years).

Well, if that’s the real reason she was fired then congrats to them. We always complain about a lack of representation and how they could just hire an actor that fits the role instead of pulling stunts like this. Sounds like they did the right thing.

I saw the movie--pretty good.  I think Julianne Moore in a fat suit would have ruined the movie.  Melissa McCarthy was great.

Posh Nosh was/is a great gift.

Yeah, so, Nicole Holofcener is awesome in all ways, and it always seemed to me that if she fired Julianne Moore, there was probably a good reason.