Originally appeared on E! Online.
John Goodman is showing off his righteous glow up.
As the 73-year-old graced the red carpet of the “Smurfs” premiere in Los Angeles July 13, he put his dramatic weight loss on full display.
For the premiere of the film — in which he voices Papa Smurf alongside cast members Rihanna and James Corden — the “Roseanne” alum sported a navy suit and white shirt complete with a brown tie and loafers.
The stark contrast in Goodman’s present-day appearance and how he looked in the early aughts began when he quit drinking around 2007 and began working out because he “wanted to live life better.”
“I know it sounds sappy, but it was a waste,” he told People about his then-100-lb. weight loss in 2010. “It takes a lot of creative energy to sit on your ass and figure out what you’re going to eat next.”
Since then, the “Righteous Gemstones” star has reflected on how he learned to keep the weight off.
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“I just stopped eating all the time,” Goodman told ABC News in 2016. “I’d have a handful of food, and it’d go to my mouth. I was just eating alcoholically. In the old days, I would take three months out, lose 60 or 70 pounds, and then reward myself with a six-pack of Bud or whatever and just go back to my old habits.”
The then-63-year-old added, “I’m getting to the age where I can’t afford to sit still anymore. I just got tired, sick and tired of looking at myself. You’re shaving in the mirror and you don’t want to look at yourself. It gets dangerous.”
Plus, as Goodman — who has also been open about his sobriety journey over the years — explained, he ultimately addressed his unhealthy habits by looking at what he believed to be the deeper cause.
“I think you’re trying to fill a hole that can’t be filled unless it’s filled with goodness, some kind of spirituality, not saying religion,” he shared. “But just a belief in something higher than yourself, a purpose. But instead of filling it with booze or cocaine or food, you just acknowledge that it’s there. You can’t fill it. And you go on and live with it.”
Goodman has since continued to dedicate himself to his exercise, too, telling Rolling Stone in 2023 that he had lost 200 pounds and that his workout of choice was boxing, noting, “It’s usually just an hour, hour and a half of hitting the mitts, hitting the bags, learning footwork. It’s great.”
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