Lizzo Talks Eddie Murphy Movies, Auditioning For ‘The Little Mermaid’ & The Challenges Of Fame
23.02.2022 - 22:59
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Lizzo isn’t going to let anyone bring her down.
The 33-year-old singer is on the new cover of Variety and in the issue, opens up about everything from Eddie Murphy movies to having fans tell her, “I get tired just looking at you perform.”
“I don’t think they’re doing it maliciously,” Lizzo says. “I definitely think they’re conditioned to believe that bigger bodies don’t have enough stamina to perform at the level that I do. For decades, we have been depicted on television and in movies as ‘lazy,’ and huffing and puffing while the other thinner characters are jogging. It’s fine. It’s a stereotype. I ain’t new to stereotypes. But what I’m trying to do is dismantle every stereotype that I have the power to do. I’m destroying them by just living and being incredible all the time.”
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Discussing body representation, Lizzo shares how she was affected as a kid by Eddie Murphy movies like “The Nutty Professor”.
“It’s funny, because I’m the biggest Eddie Murphy fan of all time. But he definitely had a collection of fat-suit movies that people would be laughing at, but I would feel sad. Not because I felt like, ‘Oh, my gosh — that’s me.’ But I had this empathy for Professor Klump [in ‘The Nutty Professor’],” she explains. “Like, the scene where he opens his drawer and there are all these candies and M&Ms in his desk? I could literally cry right now thinking about it. People around me were laughing, but I hide food, too. I feel him. I feel sympathy and empathy for him.”
With her rise to fame, Lizzo has also had to learn to deal with the nasty things people say on social media, and she opens up about the Instagram comment that brought her to tears.
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