LUKE WILSON GOT A SHOW, STILL FAT
01.04.10
Luke Wilson was actually a real movie star in 2003, when he had the lead role in Old School. Then came stuff like My Super Ex-Girlfriend and Idiocracy (both 2006) before he disappeared, got fat, and re-entered the American consciousness as an AT&T shill. Anyway, he’s joining the mother-daughter team of Laura Dern and DianeLadd in the forthcoming HBO comedy series “Enlightened.”
The project stars Dern as Amy, a self-destructive woman who after a meltdown has a spiritual awakening and becomes determined to live an enlightened life, creating havoc at home and work.
Dern’s real life mom, Ladd, will play Amy’s mother, who takes in her daughter as a house guest after her crisis. In his first regular TV gig, Wilson will play Levi, Amy’s unkempt ex-husband who has a drug problem. [THR]
The show will be written and directed by Mike White, who said in September, “The only thing I can think of cooler than making a show at HBO is doing it with Laura Dern.” Reached for comment, ex-boyfriend Billy Bob Thornton said, “Eh, I’d rather make a show at HBO.” That’s a burn.
But getting back to the subject at hand: Luke Wilson really is fat. Incidentally, when I originally wrote the previous sentence, I typed “subject at ham” instead “subject at hand,” and then I thought, “Ha ha, I bet Luke Wilson would like that!” Because he’s fat and presumably eats a lot of ham, you see.
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btw…warriorwoman73:
I agree that opining is probably never a good idea. I do it and it always gets me into trouble.
And so the internet is full of a lot of crap as usual and probably 80% of the people making fat jokes on here are fatter themselves.
Here’s a reason not to get into big time show business. But…when you look at him he’s probably average weight in real life if you saw him. He was just really fit about 7 yrs ago, so he probably looks fatter than he is in comparison.
If he worked out a bit, he could still look pretty good.
But I know myself, when people watch me in what I think might be a private moment, like when I’m walking around the house with no pants on or no shirt as I sometimes do and someone says ‘Hey fatty.’, it hurts. Just like getting your bits waxed hurts. Ah, fu@k. What are you going to do?
Why the hell are they asking Billy Bob Thornton to comment, anyway? What does he have to do with Luke Wilson? For that matter, why are they asking Billy Bob to comment on Laura Dern, other than the fact that he was engaged to her once? He broke off the engagement by way of marrying Angelina Jolie while off filming the crap movie “Pushing Tin” and never speaking to Ms. Dern again.
Billy Bob Thornton is a great actor, but he’s been married 7 times and frankly is far from a class act. I see no reason he ever should have been asked to opine on this at all.
Casey Kelso may be fat, but he is still banging hot chicks and all you fat nerds are probably getting rejected by internet porn sites.
What’s even worse is being fat through senior year, somehow losing 70 pounds without illness or dieting, and ten years later wondering how you gained back 50 of it again. WTF.
Also, isn’t Laura Dern like 15 years older than Luke? Too lazy to Google it.
Getting fat sucks.
One minute you’re a skinny 21 year old that can eat 10 burritos a day and actually lose weight for some reason and the next minute you’re 25 years old and just looking at anything more tasty than a carrot actually makes you gain weight.
“Vegetables” start with the letter V…but Tubs here wouldn’t know that.
You mean he wasn’t a real movie star in 2001, when he was a co-star in Legally Blonde? :-/
Maybe eating is his new way of dealing with the fact that his sister Margot isn’t in love with him.
He probably heard the word “unkempt,” realized he could wear sweatpants to the set, and signed on the spot.
Wilson will play Levi, Amy’s unkempt ex-husband who has a drug problem.
It’s obviously not a meth problem.
On the other hand, Val Kilmer has a good feeling about this Luke fella.
Luke Wilson settled for this gig after Food Network producers told him he doesn’t professionally qualify as an Ace of Cakes.
Luke Wilson was sorely disappointed when he realized the “Access to over 100,000 apps.” category on the sign behind him did not refer to buffalo wings and mozzarella sticks.