Matthew McConaughey Called Tom Hanks for Weight Loss Tips for ‘Dallas Buyers Club’

Forget diet and exercise.  The real secret to weight loss is… Tom Hanks.  Well, at least according to fellow actor Matthew McConaughey. McConaughey had to lose a sizable amount of his normal bulk — forty pounds — in order to portray Ron Woodroof, an HIV-positive man, in Dallas Buyers Club. 

matthew-mcconaughey-dallas-buyers-clubForget diet and exercise.  The real secret to weight loss is… Tom Hanks.  Well, at least according to fellow actor Matthew McConaughey.

McConaughey had to lose a sizable amount of his normal bulk — forty pounds — in order to portray Ron Woodroof, an HIV-positive man, in Dallas Buyers Club.  So, McConaughey put in a call to Hanks as an expert.  He explains, “I actually called Tom and had a great conversation with him about what he learned about losing weight for Philadelphia and Cast Away. And I consulted a nutritionist about the best way to do this.”

However, McConaughey otherwise kept the reasons for his weight loss a secret in order to determine its effectiveness.  He reveals, “I was going around and people were going, ‘Hey, are you feeling all right? But then I hit 135 lbs. I ran in to somebody and they didn’t just ask if I was all right, they said, ‘My God, we need to get you some help.’ And I thought, ‘There we go. That’s the perfect spot.'”

The end result for McConaughey was a change to the physical way he acted.  He admits, “Somebody told me they heard a story about how I didn’t have any energy on set, but I was kind of uncontainable with energy. All the acuity, energy and power I lost from the neck down transferred to the neck up.”

So can we see Hanks star in a Richard Simmons biopic?  There’s definitely money in that.

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