Dan Fogler - Voyage of the Carcass - Theater - New York Times:
So they went with plan A, looking at acting conservatories, which for a person who had grown up with what he called a “healthy sense of my girth” turned out to be a shock.
“I’d get, ‘You’re fantastic, the next Nathan Lane, we’d love to have you if you lose 30 pounds,” Mr. Fogler recalled. “Or the nicer version: ‘Don’t worry, we’ll help you lose those 30 pounds.’ They said it would just ‘come off’ from the rigors of the program, but I said, ‘What if it doesn’t?’ ”
Mrs. Fogler added: “I won’t name names, but at one place we visited, Dan said, ‘I don’t like it here, there’s no diversity.’ And I, who ran a diversity program at his high school, said, ‘What do you mean? I see people of so many different ethnicities, races and sexual orientations.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but no one with any body fat.’ ”
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