James Corden, the celebrity wit and actor, complains, with justice, of discrimination against “chubby” artists like himself.
They are never cast, straightforwardly, in romantic roles. A visiting alien could, he says, easily get the impression – supposing it relied on films for information – that “if you are chubby or fat or big, you never really fall in love, you never have sex”. He’s right. You’d need a heart of stone not to mourn the loss, assuming that more conventionally handsome actors can’t be made to step aside, of, say, James Corden’s Vronsky, James Corden’s Heathcliff and/or Mr Darcy, James Corden reminding us, in a remake of Brokeback Mountain, just how long audiences have had to tolerate the unconscionable tyranny, on screen, of the beautiful and muscular.
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