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When I first spotted Jon Favreau in his semi-hilarious breakout role in Doug Liman‘s Swingers (’96), it was obvious he’d be looking at weight issues later in life. Sure enough he gradually went there as the years went along, finally achieving Orson Welles-ian proportions two years ago when he appeared as Vince Vaughn‘s best friend in The Breakup. But recent photos from Iron Man, which Favreau directed and costars in, as well as interview footage show that he’s obviously gotten religion.
(l.) Favreau as currently constituted; (r.) as he looked during filming of The Breakup in mid to late ’05
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.
Favs was HUGE IN ‘Rudy’ which preceeded Swingers. So, he has gone thru life fluctuating like Luther Vandross. Hopefully, without the same results.
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.
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.
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.
He looked great when he played Rocky Marciano.
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.
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!
“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.
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!
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.
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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..
“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.
I like Jon Favreau better in the second picture; in the first one he looks creepy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?)
Rudy, PCU, he’s been fat before. And he’s been skinny before. You know, he fluctuates. Big deal.
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.
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.
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.
I will never give up my orange juice.
Then you are sure to die…and I mean that in a sharing way.
“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.
Gotten religion?
Dude’s weight fluctuates like the tides. Do you actually pay any attention to the dumb shit you report on?
Douche.
BTW, Favreau’s gonna be at a special Iron Man screening at the Aero Thursday.
See if you can get a BMI reading while you’re there, so we’ll know if Iron Man is any good or not.
“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.
See if you can get a BMI reading while you’re there, so we’ll know if Iron Man is any good or not.
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.
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.
Regardless of his weight, Jon F was terrific in The Breakup. He was convincingly scary.
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