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Jesse Plemons Shares Weight Loss from Intermittent Fasting: 'Everyone’s Going to Think I Took Ozempic'

Character actor Jesse Plemons, 36, said that ‘getting older’ is part of the reason he decided to embark on a fitness journey.

But acclaimed character actor Plemons— who famously gained weight to play Boston mobster Kevin Weeks in 2015’s Black Mass — said his fitness journey wasn’t motivated by his appearance, but by his age, and his scene-stealing role in the new drama, Civil War. The part he’s referring to is his cameo in the apocalyptic war drama, where he appears as a soldier in a tense scene with wife Kirsten Dunst, with whom he shares sons Ennis, 6, and James, 3. he worried that director Yorgos Lanthimos wanted “the bigger me,” he said being physically thinner actually worked in the role.

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