Jeff Goldblum says he “stopped eating meat” after filming ‘Wicked: For Good’

Jeff Goldblum has said that he quit “eating meat” after filming the upcoming Wicked: For Good.

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The sequel to last year’s Wicked is set to be released in cinemas on November 21, and it will catch up with Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Glinda after the conclusion of the first film as they embrace their identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good respectively.

During a recent interview on This Morning, Goldblum discussed how lucky he feels to play such an impactful role as the Wizard and added that because of the film’s themes surrounding animal cruelty, he gave up meat.

“It’s uncommon that you get to be doing this over a period of time and get more fertile and juicy and interesting and relevant roles for yourself at this period of time,” Goldblum said. “Working with [director] Jon Chu [is] amazing. It’s changed me. You know, after doing this movie, we talked about the animal cruelty, I stopped eating meat and poultry.”

He added: “We need the world to work for everybody on Earth and every creature, too.”

The trailer for Wicked: For Good first premiered at CinemaCon back in April, and was praised by those in attendance.

Wicked received a four-star review from NME, with Nick Levine writing: “By the end, you won’t quite be levitating off your seat but you’ll definitely be enchanted enough to stream the soundtrack on the way home. Funny, colourful and full of empathy for outsiders, this film really is the Shiz.”

Chu claimed last year For Good is “more relevant” to where we are “in society right now,”: “Part Two, I will say because I’ve cut Part Two together, is a doozy.

“[You’re] getting the meat. I did not know the context of where we’d be in society right now. It becomes eight times more relevant than before when you’re talking about truth and consequences of making the right or wrong choices. It’s intense.”