Ethan Suplee made a name for himself by starring in the likes of Mallrats and My Name is Earl, but his decision to focus on fitness and lose weight actually cost him dearly in Hollywood. Now he's opening up about his dramatic transformation and future goals.

There's no denying that Suplee found fame in showbiz. Unfortunately, that fame worked against him when he decided to get his health back on track. In a 2017 interview with Entertainment Weekly, he explained, for example, how difficult it was for him to land a role on the Hulu psychological thriller Chance. He revealed,

"Initially, the casting directors didn't want me to come in because I'd lost a bunch of weight. Apparently they had proposed me a bunch of times, but the casting directors were like, 'No, he's too thin now.'"

Getting rejected in Hollywood must hurt, so Suplee eventually decided to stop prioritizing his fitness as much as he had been. As he put it to EW,

"A couple years ago I made the decision: 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. And so I just kind of relaxed on my diet."

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