Regrets — Gwyneth Paltrow has a few. During a promotion for her Netflix show, Goop Lab, Paltrow admitted that her "least favorite performance" was in Shallow Hal in 2001.
"I'm not sure who told you to do that one, but it wasn't me," teased Paltrow's best friend and assistant, Kevin Keating.
In the movie, Hal (Jack Black) is hypnotized to only see inner beauty, with Paltrow playing the supposed "beautiful" version of an obese woman named Rosemary. When Rosemary is seen through the eyes of others, Paltrow donned a fat suit to emphasize the weight. The movie has since been criticized for its suggestion that "the only way a fat woman can be loved is to be loved in spite of her body," explains Jezebel. "The movie allows no possibility that a fat body could be considered a beautiful body."
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"That was before your time!" Paltrow told Keating after he named Shallow Hal, visibly cringing. "See what happened? Disaster." Watch below. Jeva Lange
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