In a new interview, the actress described Jack Black comedy Shallow Hal as a particular low point in her career, describing it as a “disaster.”
In the 2001 movie, Paltrow plays an overweight woman who appears as a thinner version of herself to Black’s character Hal after being hypnotized. The Goop Lab star had to wear a fat suit for the role.
Admitting her dislike for the movie during a chat with Netflix, Paltrow and her best friend and assistant Kevin Keating take a quiz to attain how well he knows her.
Asked what her least favourite performance was, he replied: “I would say it would be Shallow Hallow. I’m not sure who told you to do that one, but it wasn’t me.
Paltrow said: “I wasn’t there working for you. Not around for that. That was before your time. See what happened? Disaster.
“The first day I tried the fat suit on, I was in the Tribeca Grand and I walked through the lobby. It was so sad. It was so disturbing. No one would make eye contact with me because I was obese.
“For some reason the clothes they make for women that are overweight are horrible. I felt humiliated because people were really dismissive.”
