Why is it okay for Sarah Paulson to portray a woman Linda Tripp’s size (through the use of prosthetics or temporary weight gain), but it’s not okay for another actress to actually BE Linda Tripp’s size?
In the case of this season of American Crime Story, a fat suit wasn’t even necessary to the plot in any way. Linda Tripp wasn’t really fat to begin with. I mean, by Hollywood standards, sure, but she could walk into any store and buy clothes off the rack. Those late nineties pantsuits were not tailor made from a circus tent to accommodate her enormous body. She was a fifty-ish government worker, not a model or actress.
But all of that is moot, because the real reason a fat suit was totally unnecessary is because Linda Tripp’s body size was completely irrelevant to the way she participated in the entire scandal.If Sarah Paulson’s acting chops are desperately needed to portray Linda Tripp for this series, she can play her in the body she always has. Put Sarah Paulson in a nineties hair style and clothing, and tell us she’s Linda Tripp. Like I said, we aren’t too stupid to follow along.
If the decision was made that the actor cast as Tripp absolutely needed to be a similar size to Linda Tripp in 1998 in order to make the portrayal believable, that should have disqualified Paulson for the role. No need for her to gain an ounce or pad her body. Plenty of actresses in Linda Tripp’s size range exist, and most of them are pushed aside for being “too fat.
And look, I realize that dismissing actors who are larger and putting thin actors in fat suits is not the most egregious way Hollywood fucks up on the reg.in roles written for people of color. Hollywood loves to cast a non-disabled person as a disabled character. Actors with dwarfism have been badly exploited. They’ve butchered more than a few amazing books by turning them into heinous movies. And we all know that behind the scenes, abuse and exploitation is rampant on about a million fronts.
Why is it okay for Sarah Paulson to portray a woman Linda Tripp’s size , but it’s not okay for another actress to actuallyIn the real world, bodies come in a lot of sizes, and it’s just really stupid that movies and television don’t feel obligated to reflect that. When was the last time you walked into a coffee shop, a grocery store, an office, a church, a doctor’s waiting room, or literally any other public place and saw zero body diversity? It just doesn’t happen.
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