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john candyHis son Chris Candy reflects on how the interviewers treated him his late fatherEspecially regarding his weight.
The actor and comedian died of a heart attack during filming in 1994 at the age of 43 Wagons East in Durango, Mexico, when Chris was nine years old.
during the screening of Recently released documentary, John Candy: I Like MeChris appeared with the film’s director Colin Hanks, producer Ryan Reynolds and Tony winner Hugh Jackman when late comedianThe son was asked what “piece of the puzzle” he learned about his father from participating in the film.
“I was shocked to see how the interviewers treated him,” Chris told the crowd at the King’s Theater in Brooklyn, New York. He said that many journalists used to ask questions about his weight. “It was kind of heartbreaking. And I could also see how he became more and more frustrated, and he found ways to deal with it.”
She added, “Through this process I learned that he was very nervous about eating in front of people because of the paparazzi.” “He developed bad eating habits where he would say, ‘Okay, I’m not going to eat all day. I’m going to eat at night.'”
“When I hear stories like that, I feel so bad for her because it’s like, ‘How surrounded are you?’ And you really wish in those moments, as his son or as his friend, you could grab him by the shoulders and say, ‘Why do you have to do this? Just who cares? Eat a sandwich and go crazy about it.”
The new documentary – which first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and is available to stream on Prime Video starting Friday – features interviews with both his former co-stars and friends, including Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Martin Short, Mel Brooks, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Dan Aykroyd.
Last month, Reynolds revealed that he and director Hanks had made a conscious decision Cut out an archival scene that included an inflammatory comment About the late comedian’s weight.
“There were a lot of things in the documentary that we left out, reporters just saying things. One of them I called. I didn’t put it in the movie, but I called this reporter just to see,” the Deadpool star said at the time.
The actor emphasized that he was not trying to teach the journalist a lesson but wanted to know his views on the comments after so many years.
,[I told him] Reynolds said, “I took it out of the movie, but if you want to talk about it I’ll keep it in the movie, because maybe whenever something like this comes up you’ll have something to say about it, about your journey.” “We had a very thoughtful conversation about it.”
John Candy: I Like Me Available to stream on Prime Video.