10 Times Prosthetics Nearly Broke An Actor

What at first appeared to be a fun idea on the surface very quickly become a sobering experience for Gwyneth Paltrow when she took on the role of Rosemary Shanahan in 2001's Shallow Hal.

The part involved the slender Paltrow having to don a fat suit to play a character who Jack Black's hypnotised Hal only saw as thinner than she actually was in real life.

After putting on the suit and spending two hours having facial prosthetics put on for the first time, it quickly dawned on Paltrow that this wasn't going to be as enjoyable as she first thought.

Labelling the project a 'disaster', Paltrow later revealed in a Netflix video, '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.'

She also added in another interview with the L.A. Times that the experience was 'incredibly isolating and really lonely and sad.'

Shallow Hal definitely hasn't aged well over the last two decades, but it's interesting to note that Paltrow was clearly aware of just how unfunny the idea was when she first immersed herself in Shanahan's reality. It's just a shame she didn't realise that before accepting the role.