He Packed on the Pounds Again
Suplee recalled his wife telling him, “Hey, idiot, you can’t retire and ride bicycles. You have to go get a job.” He took everyone’s feedback into consideration and decided to gain a bit of weight in order to start landing roles again. “I’m not going to kill myself to be thin when nobody knows me as a thin person, and I do think it is affecting the kind of jobs I’m getting,” he said. But there was one role he couldn’t get big enough for.