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Jesse Plemons Says He Doesn’t “Regret” Gaining Weight For A Role, But Isn’t Sure He’d Do It Again: “Did Mess Me Up A Bit”
Jesse Plemons reflected on gaining weight for 2015's 'Black Mass,' admitting that he's not sure the toll it took on him would be worth repeating.
The Breaking Bad alum implied that his subsequent look then led him to be pigeonholed into certain roles: “I felt like that decision I made sort of dictated the types of parts I was being asked to play, and then started to seep into my own identity … which wasn’t necessarily who I was before that.” (Since the biographical crime drama, Plemons has been in films like Bridge of Spies, The Post, Game Night, The Irishman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Power of the Dog and Killers of the Flower Moon.) Plemons said getting cast in Alex Garland’s Civil War, in which he briefly features as a bone-chilling, violent soldier in a dystopian U.S. society, spurred him to make a change. But what it was was getting older and — I hate even getting specific because then it turns into a whole thing, but there was a part that I did [ Civil War] that in my mind I could not imagine him as the size that I was.
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