# LOTR Director Peter Jackson lost a ton of weight!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-director-peter-jackson-lost-a-ton-of-weight/523313
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 1, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-director-peter-jackson-lost-a-ton-of-weight/523313 "2010-01-01T18:45:41Z")
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### Author: ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-director-peter-jackson-lost-a-ton-of-weight/523313/1 "2010-01-01T18:45:41Z")

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[Before](http://poietes.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/peter-jackson.jpg)  
[After](http://img.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pjwenn2684304__oPt.jpg)

[Comparison](http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/05/peterbeforeafter.jpg)

Congratulations to him! I’m on the long diet march myself these days.

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### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-director-peter-jackson-lost-a-ton-of-weight/523313/2 "2010-01-01T18:47:01Z")

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He did. But he’s been slim for a while now. He didn’t lose that weight recently.

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### Author: ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-director-peter-jackson-lost-a-ton-of-weight/523313/3 "2010-01-01T18:50:52Z")

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And yet he still hasn’t mastered the use of a comb.

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### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-director-peter-jackson-lost-a-ton-of-weight/523313/4 "2010-01-01T18:56:44Z")

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> [@Pyper](#):
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> And yet he still hasn’t mastered the use of a comb.

That’s unforgivable. All those epic films do not even begin to redeem him.

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### Author: ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-director-peter-jackson-lost-a-ton-of-weight/523313/5 "2010-01-01T19:34:10Z")

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> [@Lobsang](#):
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> He did. But he’s been slim for a while now. He didn’t lose that weight recently.

Indeed, it was right around the time of King Kong. I believe he did it through diet and exercise, by the way.