Matt Damon boldly told Josh Hartnett he’d ‘never’ lose the 30 pounds he gained for ‘Oppenheimer’
nypost.comJosh Harnett revealed the “unhelpful” advice he received from his “Oppenheimer” co-star Matt Damon while promoting his new film “Trap” on “The Tonight Show” on Wednesday. “He gave me a lot of good advice.
One in particular — one thing that was just so unhelpful: He told me not to gain the weight I’d already gained for the role,” he told the host. “I gained about 30 pounds for the role, and he was like, ‘You’re never gonna get that off again, man.’”Hartnett, 46, explained that Damon, 53, who played Lt.
General Leslie Groves in “Oppenheimer” (2023), has a rule when taking on roles: “Don’t gain weight over 40.”“I was like, ‘Thanks, Matt.
Thanks for telling me this now. I’ve already gained it,’” Hartnett joked. “And now I don’t eat anymore.”Hartnett put on 30 pounds for his role as the Nobel-winning nuclear physicist Ernest Lawrence in the Christopher Nolan film.Damon’s advice on Hartnett’s weight didn’t stop after one comment but continued “over the course of the production.”The “Goodwill Hunting” star is known for his dramatic weight changes, previously losing between 40 and 50 pounds in about 100 days to play a drug-addicted Persian Gulf War veteran in 1996’s “Courage Under Fire.” He later gained weight for his role in 2009’s “The Informant!”However, Damon admitted that the rapid weight loss for “Courage Under Fire” led to health issues.“I went too far,” the actor admitted to the UK outlet Express. “I got sick and I wouldn’t do that again because it was just too much.
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