Melissa McCarthy, breakout star from Bridesmaids, will not be receiving an apology anytime soon from Rex Reed. The critic, who went on a near-psychotic rant of the actress’ weight, is not backing down.
Rex Reed is a film critic for The New York Observer. While he was panning Identity Theft, he couldn’t help but attack McCarthy’s weight problem. The classless Reed went as far as to call McCarthy a female hippo.
On Friday, Reed responded to all of the criticism he has garnered in an interview with Us Weekly:
"I can only repeat what I have said before -- that I do not have, nor have I ever had, anything personal against people who suffer from obesity. What I object to is the disgusting attempt to pretend obesity is funny. It is not remotely humorous, and every obese comedian who ever made jokes about the disease are now dead from strokes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes."
Reed (who is in no way thin, himself) continued to justify his scathing criticism:
"As a critic whose opinions are constitutionally protected by law, I stand by all of my original remarks about Melissa McCarthy's obesity, which I consider about as amusing as cancer, and apologize for nothing,"
Richard Roeper, one of the nation’s leading critics, also gave an exclusive to Us Weekly. Roeper went on record as saying:
"It's fair to comment on any actor's appearance if it's relevant to the character the actor is playing, the performance, and how that actor's physical traits add to or detract from the performance. But this just smacks of mean-spirited name-calling in lieu of genuine criticism."
Get ‘em Richard!
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