This past year has brought to light many conversations and controversies regarding the representation and portrayal of people living with obesity in cinema. From actor Tom Hanks in Elvis (2022) to actress Emma Thompson in the recent Netflix release of Matilda the Musical (2022) both donning fat suits for their roles, films in 2022 have sparked discussion around the inclusion of underrepresented body types in movies. Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, for both its triumphs and failures, has not escaped this debate.
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