The great Jesse Plemons thinks people will assume he's been on Ozempic after sporting a slender figure recently.
The acclaimed actor—who delivered breakthrough roles on Friday Night Lights and Breaking Bad—opened up about his weight loss journey in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, which noted that he's noticeably slimmer in his latest movie, Kinds of Kindness.
"It’s really unfortunate that I decided to get healthy when everyone decided to take Ozempic," said Plemons, who plays three different characters in the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed anthology film. "It doesn’t matter, everyone’s going to think I took Ozempic anyways."
The 36-year-old actor said that he was inspired to lose weight because he was "getting older," and because he struggled to imagine his character in Civil War, which is an uncredited cameo, at the weight he was at the time. Plemons worried that when Lanthimos approached him for Kinds of Kindness he was looking for "the bigger me."
"I hate even getting specific because then it turns into a whole thing, but there was a part that I did that in my mind I could not imagine him as the size that I was," he shared, referring to his brief role as a rogue soldier in Civil War. "Several people talked to me about intermittent fasting and I just gave it a shot and [was] surprised at how quickly it was effective. So I lost a little bit before I did that part and then felt like I was in the rhythm, I was feeling better, and something shifted in my head. I just sort of got a handle on it."
Plemons, an Academy Award-nominated actor who also showed up in Martin Scorsese's three-hour epic Killers of the Flower Moon last year, has earned a reputation among fans for being one the best parts of each project he appears in. He's known for really committing to his roles, too, putting on weight for his performance in the 2015 crime drama Black Mass.
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His decision to take on such disparate roles, he suggested, comes down to the desire to work with different directors possessing unique "personalities and instincts and sensibilities." He added that he's eager to work with The Florida Project director Sean Baker, American Honey and Bird director Andrea Arnold, and the Safdie brothers of Uncut Gems fame.
Despite these goals, he's not looking to plan out his next moves too much. "I’ve been doing it for so long that it almost doesn’t benefit to look too far ahead," he added. "And that’s kind of worked for me so far ... I’m constantly just looking at this next thing and following my gut [about] what is interesting and exciting to me."
Elsewhere in the interview, he revealed that he took on his brief role in Civil War after his wife Kirsten Dunst, whom he married in 2022, called him about it after the original actor dropped out.
