Hollywood veteran Jeff Goldblum, 73, has chosen to stop eating meat after starring as the Wizard in the Jon Chu\u2013directed fantasy film Wicked: For Good,<\/i> scheduled to be released on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, after doing this movie, we talked about the animal cruelty, I stopped eating meat and poultry,\u201d Goldblum said on the U.K.-based talk show This Morning<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n In Wicked<\/i>, released in 2024, animals were depicted as being silenced and kept captive. In Wicked: For Good<\/i>, Goldblum said that his character would \u201cinstigate and facilitate animal cruelty,\u201d confirming the reason for Goldblum\u2019s dietary change. (In the Wicked series, the Wizard is portrayed as a villain, unlike the original film, where he was just a fraud.)<\/p>\n \ufeffGoldblum said he “may be having something else” during this year’s holiday season to conform to his new diet. He continued: \u201cI\u2019m happy. We need the world to work for everybody on Earth and every creature, too.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2019, the Jurassic Park<\/i> actor told<\/a> AARP that when it comes to aging, \u201cit’s just a number\u201d and discussed some steps he takes to stay healthy. \u201cI live a clean life,\u201d he said. \u201cI like to go to bed early and be wholesome and eat well. I’ve never smoked. I don’t drink much. Luckily, everything\u2019s still working.\u201d\ufeff\ufeff<\/p>\n \ufeffGrammy-winning singer Ariana Grande, who stars as Glinda, and Emmy-winning actress Cynthia Erivo, who plays Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, are both vegan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Jeff Goldblum is The Wizard of Oz in “Wicked: For Good.”<\/p>\n Universal<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \ufeffErivo discussed<\/a> the many food options available to vegans now compared with 2013 during a June interview on the Dish<\/i> podcast. \u201cEveryone goes, \u2018Do you want a veggie burger?\u2019 But there\u2019s so many other ways,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can make so much, and also, if you want a veggie burger, there\u2019s so many other alternatives. Now you have your meat alternatives, so you can have a burger that\u2019s just as succulent as a meat burger, which is great.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0If you\u2019re considering a vegan or vegetarian diet, some helpful tips<\/a> include making gradual changes, starting with small adjustments, conducting thorough research and sticking to whole foods. Also, ensure you\u2019re getting essential nutrients<\/a> like vitamin B12, protein and calcium. AARP has additional nutritional info on why you should eat less meat<\/a> and what a plant-based diet is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aarp.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hollywood veteran Jeff Goldblum, 73, has chosen to stop eating meat after starring as the Wizard in the Jon Chu\u2013directed fantasy film Wicked: For Good, scheduled to be released on Nov. 21. \u201cYou know, after doing this movie, we talked about the animal cruelty, I stopped eating meat and poultry,\u201d Goldblum said on the U.K.-based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2153865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[412302,358188,412301,412300,412303,368121,374130],"class_list":["post-2153864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-celebrities-who-dont-eat-meat","tag-jeff-goldblum","tag-jeff-goldblum-interview","tag-jeff-goldblum-vegetarian","tag-vegetarian-celebrities","tag-wicked-for-good","tag-wicked-movie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jeff-Goldblum-Gave-Up-Meat-After-Shooting-\u2018Wicked.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153866,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153864\/revisions\/2153866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/cdn.aarp.net\/etc\/uxdia\/images\/uxdia-spinner.svg\")
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