has claimed his 110-pound has negatively impacted his career. The 69-year-old actor, best known for his role as Newman on the hit , briefly opened up about the connection between his physical change and his current lack of work during a run-in with at Los Angeles International Airport. When asked by the outlet if his weight loss has affected his career, Knight said: “Yes.
” “In a bad way,” he continued. “But it takes time. It takes time for people to accept you as you are, and then they find out whether or not you can still do things without being fat.
” Knight added: “It’s just what it is. You just have to accept the fact that you can’t sell something that you’re not.” According to the actor, he’s lost 110 pounds since he starred in 1993’s .
He didn’t specify what method he used to shed the pounds, but said he’d tried “everything that anyone could ever try” over a period of time — including therapy, drugs, surgery, exercise, and radiation. Knight also joked that he’d been “taken by aliens” as a method for weight loss. When questioned whether Knight had been doing it “the old fashioned way,” he responded: “What do you mean, like, not eating? Yes, that does work.
” Knight’s career has spanned decades, with a portfolio of supporting roles in movies such as , , and . He also assumed the role of postal worker Newman alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus on . In 2020, .
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