WEIGHT A SEC, YOU SEXISTS!

When moderator Jesse Kornbluth asked Michelle Pfeiffer at the Tribeca Film Festival’s 35th anniversary screening of “Scarface,” how much she weighed for her role as a coke addict in the movie, the ridiculous audience went berserkers, booing and yelling, “Why do you need to know!? Why!?”

Give me a break. Robert De Niro, a founder of the festival, is asked all the time how much he gained to play Jake LaMotta in “Raging Bull,” (75 pounds.)

Why is it only OK to ask a man?

The question about Pfeiffer’s weight was very legit. The outrage that followed wasn’t. Being furious that a moderator would even ask an actress about her weight loss for a movie role is NYC PC so out of control that it now trumps art. Hello? Actors’ bodies are as important to their craft as a keyboard is to a writer. They love to discuss how they sacrifice for their art by changing their bodies sometimes drastically for a role.

NOT asking out of fear of being called sexist is what is actually sexist. Here then, the top weight gains and losses by actors no matter how pissed off it makes the lefties. Cranky Christian Bale lost 63 pounds for “The Machinist.” Charlize Theron gained 30 pounds in doughnuts to play serial killer Aileen Warmus in “Monster.” 50 Cent sacrificed his gloriously buff body and lost 54 pounds to play the cancer-riddled athlete in “Things Fall Apart.” Renee Zellweger ate herself chubby up 20 pounds to play the neurotically lovable single in “Bridget Jones’ Diary.”

And, at the risk of being booed and heckled: Hey! Matthew McConaughey! How much did you lose to play drug addict/HIV positive Ron Woodruff in “The Dallas Buyers Club?”

Just remember, that’s OK to ask. He’s a man.