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Inside 'Super Size Me' Director Morgan Spurlock's Complicated Legacy

Morgan Spurlock, who directed and starred in 2004’s ‘Super Size Me’ documentary, died in May 2024 at the age of 53

While Super Size Me intended to increase public awareness about fast food dining amid America’s obesity epidemic, Morgan’s experiment led to various health issues. Morgan Spurlock in ‘Super Size Me.’Cover Images“Ever since making the movie, I can put on four or five pounds in a weekend so easily,” he told Civil Eats in 2010. The New York Times and the New Yorker first published investigative pieces in 2017 that accused disgruntled movie producer Harvey Weinstein of decades of sexual assault and harassment.

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