Etta Candy, and the actress playing her in Wonder Woman.
(The world does not begin and end with Melissa McCarthy, except apparently it does.)
Part of me is still very excited about the movie, but:
1. it’s very white
2. fat suits are rarely a good idea
3. the slavery “joke” is just…don’tRELATED: here is a useful essay about how to be a fan of problematic things!
I noped out months ago when I saw the first picture of Etta Candy, but the secretary/slavery “joke” was the nail in the coffin.
…why would anyone not just hire a plus-size actress??
Beats me! Like, that’s an old photo, and her weight has gone up and down over the years … so why put her in a fat suit? (Let alone with those weird, improbable facial prosthetics?/incredibly unflattering make-up?)
Like, put Actual Lucy Davis in the movie, and we’d all go, “LOL, Hollywood!fat, bless their hearts”. But why they’ve taken a good-looking, average-sized woman and made her really ugly is beyond me. It’s not as though Gal Gadot is going to suddenly look terrible if she’s standing next to another attractive woman.
Anyway, I’ve never cared much about Wonder Woman, so I was never hugely excited for this movie – it’s just tiring to have yet another Great Feminist Tax Avoidance Scheme I Mean Action Movie that goes, “Yes! Women! Girl power! No fat chicks!”
I don’t think that is a fat suit. Here’s what Lucy Davis looked like in NCIS last year:
(I mean, sure, they might have had her in a fat suit then too, but I doubt it? Here she is on Twitter that same year.)
Anyway, put a picture of 2015 Lucy and a slightly more flattering picture of Lucy-as-Etta together and –
– I’m not a make-up artist or costume designer, obviously, but don’t think she’s been made to look larger than she actually is. I think it’s much more likely that the actress in question, after years of being called ‘dowdy’ by the Daily Mail and much much worse by commenters online, is just happy in her body now.