Fatsuit

A fat suit, too ( English) The Substitute [ fætsu ː t], is a kind of suit that is filled with foam, plastic granules or the like for example, to make an actor look thicker in film and theater.

The types range from simple suits that are lined with a kind of cotton, more complex models with a kind of granules with realistic movements to extremely elaborate models in which the skin is simulated and this also can then be shown without clothes. The latter was, for example, in the music video " Keine Lust" by Rammstein or " 3.5 minutes " of Dendemann used.

Simple models wore, because no adjustment by the artist are required, including Cordula Stratmann in the mission Schiller Street, where her pregnancy should be concealed for the role, as well as Alexandra Neldel in love with Berlin, where the actress is to act inconspicuous and thick. In the movie Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny is to see how the main actor Robin Williams can be adapted to such a suit to take over the care of his children in the role of a sixty -year-old housekeeper. In musical comedy Hairspray John Travolta plays an overweight woman for whose representation he had to wear a 15 -pound fat suit during filming.

• One piece
• Workwear