# What happened to Peter Jackson?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702 "2005-08-12T07:29:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702/21 "2005-08-13T05:00:44Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Looks like he just blew a seal. I think it was an otter. Yeah I know, late to the party 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702/22 "2005-08-13T05:46:53Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Looks like he just blew a seal. Ah, so you have seen _Meet the Feebles_. No, wait, that was a walrus. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702/23 "2005-08-13T07:58:37Z")
> [@I Love Me](#): > > Hey-- I remember that song. My brother used to play it all the time. Something about a Nash Rambler or something??? Well this got off topic fairly quick, but what the hell: [Lyrics for **Wet Dream**](http://www.com-www.com/musiclyrics/addottakip-wetdream.html) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702/24 "2005-08-13T16:57:03Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > I’m happy for him, but that kind of rapid weight loss isn’t good for the ticker. My fiancee had a grad school friend who went the same route: very obese to svelte in less than a year…and then dead when her heart failed during her sleep. And she was only 27 or so. Well, how much weight did he loose in how long? IIRC, the rule of thumb is that you can loose about 2.5 pounds a week safely. So figure that’s 10 pounds a month, he could in theory loose 60 pounds in about 6 months. Of course, if he was working out, he might put on some muscle, which would increase his weight somewhat, but he’d still look a lot better. So I guess it just depends on how long it took him to get to that point. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702/25 "2005-08-13T20:12:14Z")
I noticed this a few weeks ago when the trailer for his King Kong remake was shown on Channel 4 in the UK. Quite a change :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702/26 "2005-08-13T20:14:04Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Well, how much weight did he loose in how long? > > IIRC, the rule of thumb is that you can loose about 2.5 pounds a week safely. So figure that’s 10 pounds a month, he could in theory loose 60 pounds in about 6 months. Of course, if he was working out, he might put on some muscle, which would increase his weight somewhat, but he’d still look a lot better. > > So I guess it just depends on how long it took him to get to that point. After a very quick google, it looks like he got thin mostly during the shooting of Kong, and accomplished by not eating or sleeping the full time. It looks like filming took 4 months, so guesstimating at 60 pounds lost (but probably more), probably he wasn’t at his healthiest at the end of production. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702/27 "2005-08-14T00:20:41Z")
If you look at the [Production Diaries](http://www.kongisking.net/kong2005/proddiary/), you can see he was thin before shooting began. So he did it the healthy way. The latest Production Diary has Phillipa Boyens, the co-writer, and she’s lost a lot of weight too. She looks great. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702/28 "2005-08-14T01:52:50Z")
> [@kellner](#): > > His character Derek looked like [this](http://img-tbhl.theonering.net/badtaste/images/filmshots/FILMS012.jpg), [this](http://img-tbhl.theonering.net/badtaste/images/filmshots/FILMS027.jpg) or [this](http://img-tbhl.theonering.net/badtaste/images/filmshots/FILMS040.jpg). He went to Hogwarts? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-peter-jackson/316702.md?page=1)