comment #1

Mgmax, le Corbeau says ...

Yeah, I see what you mean. On the left he's one of those weird drawn-faced wrinkly Hollywood types, with bony features sticking out under skin like tentpoles. On the right, he looks normal.

comment #2

rr3333 says ...

Favs was HUGE IN 'Rudy' which preceeded Swingers. So, he has gone thru life fluctuating like Luther Vandross. Hopefully, without the same results.

comment #3

D.Z. says ...

Well, I'd probably eat like that, too, if, it took me that long to get a decent paycheck gig. I wouldn't be surprised if New Line pulled a Peter Jackson on his Elf money.

comment #4

DarthCorleone says ...

Funny - I was going to make a Peter Jackson comparison too, but mine was that directing stresses you out so much that it takes off the pounds.

comment #5

PastePotPete says ...

Yeah Favreau's weight has fluctuated a lot. He even has a funny story about auditioning for the role of "fatass" in The Shawshank Redemption.

comment #6

Spicer says ...

He looked great when he played Rocky Marciano.

comment #7

Craig Kennedy says ...

Has Jeff ever outlined the rigorous exercise and diet regimen he uses to allow himself the constant moral superiority he holds over fat people?

I ask because I'm a lazy fuck, but thanks to the blessings of genetics, I'm a skinny, lazy fuck. Some people aren't so lucky. For some people it takes more effort than others to maintain an ideal body weight.

Those of us for whom it's easy don't get to judge those for whom it's not.

comment #8

romeoisbleeding says ...

I read that during the making of Itron Man Jon put himself on a very low cal diet. so he was going through the stress of that. Downey was also trying to give up smioking cigarettes during the filming. I can imagine it made for some rather tense times!

comment #9

Mark B says ...

"I ask because I'm a lazy fuck, but thanks to the blessings of genetics, I'm a skinny, lazy fuck. Some people aren't so lucky. For some people it takes more effort than others to maintain an ideal body weight."

I'm thankful to hear a self-described "skinny, lazy f***" say this...LOL I'm about 10 pounds overweight right now (I used to be 30 pounds heavier than that) and it takes a great deal of concerted effort (both diet and exercise) for me to maintain my weight. I"m not complaining, though, because thus far I've been blessed with overall good health, so a little extra work never hurt nobody.

comment #10

MikeSchaeferSF says ...

Favreau is hot hot hot no matter what he weighs. Indeed, my only criticism about Swingers (which I loved) was that it was difficult to believe that his character was unlucky in love since he was clearly built like a brick shithouse. For the first half-hour he's playing the schlub, and suddenly we see him in a white T-shirt and he's a hunk. But he endeared himself to bear-loving gay men the world over with his Break-Up look (above, right). Damn!

comment #11

jse33 says ...

What about Faveau's bud and co-star from Swingers, Vince Vaughn? In that film, he was a 6'5" stick. Fast forward to the other film you mentioned, The Break-Up, and he's become a 6'5" puffy marshmallow. And this time period was when he was banging Jennifer Aniston. If she's not motivation to lose weight, I don't know what is.

comment #12

Walter Sobchak says ...

HOLLYWOOD-ELSEWHERE.COM:
"No Fatties"

comment #13

Adonis says ...

Walter,

Didn't you see Wells' seminar pictures... that he then promptly took off the site?

The man's obsessed about everyone's weight... because his figure ain't quite what the letterhead suggests anymore..

comment #14

lazarus says ...

"But recent photos from Iron Man, which Favreau directed and costars in, as well as interview footage show that he's obviously gotten religion."

Or cancer.

Hey, you never know.

My thoughts are with him, either way.

comment #15

Ogami Itto says ...

I like Jon Favreau better in the second picture; in the first one he looks creepy.

comment #16

Legowombat says ...

Ok, the first 'Hairspray Morbidly-Obese' rant was funny. So was the 'Brad Pitt as Everyman' one. But after a cornocopia of 'Judd Apatow's Schlubs' posts, and then this one, it's starting to get creepily obsessive.



On the right, I see a Bear Pin Up. The bloke could be knee deep in hairy mangina, if that's the way he swung. On the left, i see the effects of Major League Stress - bleeding ulcer and inability to hold a meal down stressed - Favreau looks drawn and tired.



Then again, judging by the amount of Plastic Surgery that goes on in Hollywood, which never looks like anything but "My face looks unnatural because i've had plastic surgery and / or a stroke!" to me, looking sick, frozen and weird is misread as 'healthy and youthful'. I often wonder if it's actually a locationally-unique social psychopathology.



Anyway, the best arguement i can think for Fatties and Non-Pretty Boys In Hollywood would be Alfred Hitchcock, to the extent I don't feel the need to offer up any other two-tonnes-of-fun-worthy names based on his output alone.

comment #17

BurmaShave says ...

Why didn't anyone ever give Vince Vaugh any shit for also gaining so much weight? It spread out more because he's so damn tall and he wears it well, but both of them yoyo fairly substantially.

comment #18

BurmaShave says ...

Also who was the former fatty who used to regale us with stories about running on the beach and losing it all and saving his soul? Maybe it's one of you I've just forgotten.

comment #19

The Winchester says ...

I read an interview with Favreau a few months ago about his weight. His wife is a cardiologist (I think) and she put him on a diet and exercise regime, because she was afraid he'd have a massive coronary in a few years. I'm dead serious, I just wish I remembered where it was I read it.

Regardless, he looks great, and I hope I have his success with weight loss, as all the "schlub" hatin at this site has convinced me to get a gym membership.

(Gyms are those places where you buy legal pot, right?)

comment #20

Kristopher Tapley says ...

Rudy, PCU, he's been fat before. And he's been skinny before. You know, he fluctuates. Big deal.

comment #21

dangovich says ...

Favreau's one of those people who look better with some weight in his face. When he's lean, he bears an alarming resemblance to that old Wayland Flowers' Madame puppet.

comment #22

btwnproductions says ...

Just a quick note to say that "skinny, lazy fucks" are just as prone to Type 2 diabetes as fat, lazy fucks, maybe more so. There's a good article about this in the current Men's Health. Preventitive care: lay off the sodas, fruit juices (way too much sugar and carbs; eat oranges, for example, and dump your orange juice down the drain), low-fat foods (again, too much of the bad stuff is added to give it flavor), and all those extraneous snacking carbs. Start cooking your own more healthful meals; it can be done. And, yes, exercise.

A nutritionist can set you up with a good eating program. I was irked that I had to do it, but I did do it, and have lost (and kept off) 25 pounds. All of my levels (triglycerides, bad cholesterol, etc.) are way down now. Believe me, if this lazy fuck can do it, so can all of you.

comment #23

dangovich says ...

I will never give up my orange juice.

comment #24

btwnproductions says ...

Then you are sure to die...and I mean that in a sharing way.

comment #25

Mgmax, le Corbeau says ...

"Then you are sure to die"

Um, btwn, I have some bad news for you about that.

And frankly, I don't mean at 90 while windsurfing in your case. Talk zeal-of-the-convert shit like that and you greatly increase your risk factor for being bludgeoned to death with a six-pack of Hungry Man dinners in the parking lot at Costco.

comment #26

dgaughan says ...

Gotten religion?

Dude's weight fluctuates like the tides. Do you actually pay any attention to the dumb shit you report on?

Douche.

comment #27

D.Z. says ...

BTW, Favreau's gonna be at a special Iron Man screening at the Aero Thursday.

comment #28

Mgmax, le Corbeau says ...

See if you can get a BMI reading while you're there, so we'll know if Iron Man is any good or not.

comment #29

Craig Kennedy says ...

btwn, make no mistake, I'm fully prepared for an early grave...an early, skinny grave.

I'm not advocating for laziness, I'm simply saying...oh wait, hold the phone, my chicken pot pie is done.

comment #30

Griff says ...

Regardless of his weight, Jon F was terrific in The Breakup. He was convincingly scary.

comment #31

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