Jesse Plemons Opens up About His Weight Loss — And Why It's Here to Stay
Jesse Plemons says he has kept his weight down without using Ozempic.
Updated June 21 2024, 10:32 a.m. ET
A noticeably slimmer Jesse Plemons has been gracing your television and movie screens lately, and the actor has opened up about how he dropped the weight and has kept it off.
Jesse, who plays Allan Gore to Elizabeth Olsen's Candy Montgomery, stars in the film Killers of the Flower Moon, and appears in Yorgos Lanthimos's Kinds of Kindness, has spoken quite publicly about his new habits and what inspired the change.
People talking about Jesse Plemons's weight loss and gain has surprised him over the years.
Fans who have followed Jesse's career closely know that he has at times been slimmer and carried more weight on his frame since stepping into the spotlight. The topic of his weight isn't something Jesse has shied away from discussing — even if he didn't expect his body to be a subject anyone would be interested in discussing.
Speaking about his role in the 2015 movie Black Mass, Jesse said about having gained 45 pounds to play Kevin Weeks, “Everyone’s like, ‘You gained all this weight!’ I was like, ‘No, I’ve been fat for a while now.’”
“Yeah, talking about it, if anything, makes me a little more empathetic — sympathetic? — to what women have to go through. My God! Men in general are just not held under the same microscope in that way. It’s bizarre that that’s all people wanted to talk about," Jesse continued.
Later in the same interview with GQ, Jesse joked that his secret to losing weight was simple, saying, "Well, I was eating everything, and then I just stopped eating terrible food."
Jesse Plemons wants to keep the "extra weight" off for good.
As fans take to social media to compliment Jesse on his weight loss, it's worth noting that the actor is looking to focus on his health moving forward.
In 2022, speaking to Interview, the star detailed his commitment to keeping "extra weight" off. "Something clicked in my head and I got tired of carrying all that extra weight around," Jesse confessed.
He added about the trimmer version of his body that fans are now seeing, "I got asked to do a scene in this movie and I was playing a soldier, and I was like, 'I don’t know many soldiers that are my size.' So like everyone else, I started doing intermittent fasting, cut carbs, all that stuff. It’s easy if you just actually do it."
Jesse added that since shedding the weight, his blood pressure is down and it's easier to keep up with his two kids — the star is married to Kirsten Dunst and the couple share Ennis, age 5, and James, age 2.
In 2024, the actor told Entertainment Tonight that his life has changed since trying intermittent fasting. "Well, I'm not lugging 50 more pounds around," he said. The change has helped him keep up with his kids. "I have much more energy [now] and, like I've said, I've got young kids, so I got to keep up with them," he continued.