Movie: Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up

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Jack Black
Jack Black

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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow

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Brooke Burns
Brooke Burns

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Bobby Farrelly
Bobby Farrelly

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Peter Farrelly
Peter Farrelly

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Tony Gardner
Tony Gardner

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Bradley Thomas
Bradley Thomas

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Whitney Axley
Whitney Axley

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    This short documentary provides discussion of how the fat suits and other make-up effects were done for the film as well as considerations of exactly the look. There's also some test footage of the make-up effects and interviews with Paltrow, Black, the Farrellys, Paltrow and Paltrow's body double, Ivy.

  • Release Date

    2002-07-02

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    6.3

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