John Goodman Reveals Major Weight Loss at 'Trumbo' Screening in London
John Goodman on the red carpet Oct. 8 (left) and then back in 2013. (Getty Images)
Vertical stripes have a slimming effect, but whoa, John Goodman!
The 63-year-old actor looked nothing like ole Dan Conner at a screening of Trumbo at the BFI London Film Festival on Thursday. He appeared thinner than we can remember in a slightly wrinkled navy striped suit with a checked shirt and polka dot tie.
Goodman’s weight has been up and down over the years, but it appears he has had a breakthrough. The process started back in 2007, when he did a stint in rehab to treat his alcoholism. Three years later, he appeared on Late Show With David Letterman after shedding 100 pounds from his all-time high of 400. He credited giving up drinking, followed by sugar, and working out with fitness guru Mackie Shilstone, the same trainer used by Serena Williams — six times a week for his new look.
Medical reasons were also behind Goodman’s weight loss plan. The actor — who lives with his wife of 26 years, Anna Beth, in New Orleans — underwent knee replacement surgery and had to drop weight prior to going under the knife. Despite losing a lot of weight over the last six or so years, he’s had some setbacks. At the premiere of Inside Llewyn Davis, photographed above at the right, he appeared to have put some of the weight back on.
Goodman has said that because of his weight, he finds it difficult to watch himself on screen. “I was in pretty good shape when I got this role, but I thought I was doing better than I looked on screen,“ he told the Guardian last year while promoting Monuments Men. "I thought I looked terrible.”
He continued: “I wish I wasn’t as fat as I am. It just bothers me. When I saw a film in which I played Santa Claus [2006’s The Year Without A Santa Claus], I walked away thinking, ‘This is just God-awful. I look terrible. I want to have my mouth sewn shut.’ And it got me to lose about 70 pounds. Then I started to edge back up again.”
Goodman, who shot to fame in TV’s ‘Roseanne,’ has said he weighed around 400 pounds at his heaviest. (ABC via Getty Images)
However, as Goodman admitted in the Letterman interview, his weight loss is a marathon, not a sprint. “I’m not going to look like Paris Hilton or anything like that,” he joked. “It’s going to be an ongoing process for the rest of my life.”
Well, this part of the process seems to be going well for him. And, for the record, we are glad he’ll never look like Paris Hilton.
