{"id":214900,"date":"2025-10-15T13:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214900\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:35:15","slug":"john-candys-son-slams-journalists-who-called-actor-fat-in-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/214900\/","title":{"rendered":"John Candy’s Son Slams Journalists Who Called Actor Fat in Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohn Candy\u2019s son, Chris, said during a recent event promoting the new documentary \u201cJohn Candy: I Like Me<\/a>\u201d (via People<\/a>) that it was \u201cheart-wrenching\u201d to see resurfaced press interviews in the film where journalists openly mocked Candy\u2019s weight to his face.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was kind of shocked to see how interviewers treat him,\u201d Chris said. \u201cThat was just kind of heart-wrenching. And I also could see how he got more frustrated and he found ways to deal with that\u2026 I learned through the process of this [documentary] that he was so nervous about eating in front of people because of paparazzi. He developed a poor eating habit where he\u2019d be like, \u2018Alright, well I\u2019m not going to eat all day. I\u2019m going to eat at night.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChris continued, \u201cWhen I hear stories like that I just felt so bad for him because it\u2019s like, \u2018How cornered are you?\u2019 And you really want in those moments, as his son or as his friend, to be able to grab him by his shoulders and say, \u2018Why the fuck do you have to do this? Just who cares? Have a sandwich and get mad about it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJohn Candy: I Like Me\u201d hails from director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan Reynolds. The movie, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before making its streaming debut Oct. 10 on Amazon Prime Video<\/a>, contains many examples of interviewers essentially calling Candy \u201cfat\u201d to his face during press junkets. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou look at interview after interview and horrible things are being said and questions are being asked in incredibly insensitive ways,\u201d Hanks\u00a0told\u00a0Variety\u00a0<\/a>before the film\u2019s TIFF premiere. \u201cIt\u2019s tough to see how uncomfortable John was in almost every clip. And he had good reason, because some of the things that people said were disgusting and would not be tolerated today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReynolds revealed during a Q&A at TIFF <\/a>that he personally called one of the journalists who mocked Candy<\/a>\u2018s weight after seeing archival footage of the insulting incident while working on the documentary as a producer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was a lot of things we left out of the documentary, journalists just saying stuff. One of them I called,\u201d Reynolds said about the journalist who was caught on camera making inflammatory comments about Candy\u2019s weight. \u201cI didn\u2019t put it in the movie, but I called this journalist just to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to shame him or teach him a lesson,\u201d Reynolds continued. \u201c[I told him] I took it out of the movie, but I\u2019d put it in the movie if you wanted to talk about it, because maybe you have something to say about it, about your journey whenever it comes to something like that. We had such a thoughtful conversation about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJohn Candy: I Like Me\u201d includes interviews with dozens of the late comedian\u2019s former co-stars, including Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Catherine O\u2019Hara. The movie is now streaming on Prime Video.<\/p>\n

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