Has anyone heard if he is ill? I just saw a picture of him at the New Zealand opening of ROTK, and he looks like death warmed over.
I was wondering that, and saw him using a cane in pics from TTT NZ premiere. Looks like it was an accident:
Davies is a diabetic, and recently (within the past year) had bariatric surgery. It’s possible it’s just rapid weight-loss, which can often give a sallow look to a person.
In USA’s recent “Helen of Troy” miniseries, he looked REALLY different. Lot of weight loss, definitely. I hoped he wasn’t terribly sick – glad to see it was probably more the result of surgery…
Cite, please? I am unable to find any reference to him having diabetes, or to having bariatric surgery. The only explanation I’ve seen for his weight loss and use of a cane was the one he gave: He almost got crushed to death on the set of a movie and had a long, painful recovery, during which he lost weight.
I worked an event with him in late October 2003 and he seemed fine. He didn’t look or act ill. Of course, I had very little interaction with him, so I wouldn’t have noticed anything that wasn’t obvious. Very nice man, by the way.
Sorry, no cite. Just talked to him about it at a convention in June- he’d just had the surgery, and I’d had it a year previous.