FORTY YEARS INTO his career and having conquered his demons, John Goodman is feeling energised. “I’ve surpassed all my dreams,” he says with one of those trademark huge grins of his, “and the best part of it is within the last few years I’ve fallen in love with acting again.”
With his heavy drinking days now far behind him, this most amiable and unguarded of interviewees admits: “I got jaded and dulled a little bit. I always liked doing it but now I really, really love it.”
Professionally the man best known for playing Dan Conner on and for his darkly comic turns in many Coen Brothers films is in a very good place. Now 71, he’s got regular gigs on the reboot (renamed after Roseanne herself got into hot water for an ill-advised Twitter rant) and the crime comedy , plus he voices cuddly Sulley on the series on Disney+.
