Jurassic Park Star Jeff Goldblum Reveals Why Wicked Made Him Give Up Meat

Jurassic Park prima Jeff Goldblum has revealed that he's fixed up eating nutrient aft playing the villainous Wizard of Oz successful Wicked.

Speaking during an interrogation connected British chat amusement This Morning, Goldblum said that portraying Oz's all-powerful ruler had "changed" him arsenic a person, successful peculiar owed to his character's cruelty towards animals.

In past year's Wicked: Part 1, viewers saw the film's talking animals persecuted and rounded up connected the orders of the Wizard, arsenic the creatures suffer their quality to speak. The animals' plight past continues arsenic a large communicative thread — acceptable to beryllium shown successful this year's concluding movie, Wicked: For Good.

Wicked prima Jeff Goldblum. Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage.

Over the years, galore person commented connected Wicked's portrayal of animals arsenic a metaphor for marginalized groups silenced by authorities. Both the story's signifier and movie versions are designed to make important empathy for their carnal characters, and the Wicked movies person been praised for utilizing CGI, alternatively than existent animals connected set.

"It's changed me. You know, aft doing this movie — we talked astir the carnal cruelty — I stopped eating nutrient and poultry," Goldblum said. "So this Christmas and Thanksgiving, I whitethorn beryllium having another... thing else."

Explaining his decision, Goldblum continued: "We request the satellite to enactment for everybody connected Earth and each carnal too."

An excerpt from the authoritative blurb for Wicked: For Good mentions the following:

"Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), present demonized arsenic The Wicked Witch of the West, lives successful exile, hidden wrong the Ozian wood portion continuing her combat for the state of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to exposure the information she knows astir The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum)."

Wicked: For Good volition reunite Goldblum and Erivo with co-stars Ariana Grande arsenic Glinda and Michelle Yeoh arsenic Madame Morrible erstwhile the movie hits theaters aboriginal this month, connected November 21, 2025.

Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage.

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