Is Matt Damon fat or am I hallucinating? No, this is not an illusion; Matt Damon is fat, big time. What happened to him? Where are the six-pack abs that he is known for? Gone!

An 18-oz. steak swimming in Grand Marnier au poivre sauce. Sweet potato pancakes with crème fraîche. A filet mignon ⿿ and a pork tenderloin and a Caesar salad with shrimp. What on earth is Damon ⿿ who has ordered the above meals recently at Miami restaurants-trying to do? Get fat? Well, yes, actually.

In his newest film, The Informant, the actor plays a chubby corporate executive ⿿ and, as the picture above shows, “he always physically embodies his characters,” says Shawn Stallworth, who trained him for The Bourne Supremacy.

One hopes the 5′11″, normally-155-lb. Damon is enjoying this transformation a bit more than, say, his 40-lb. weight loss for 1996’s Courage Under Fire. “People look at the character and think he’s haunted,” Damon said at the time. “But all I was thinking was, ‘I want a cheeseburger.’”

How Matt Damon got fat: Damon⿿s weight-gain diet for the film includes bagels and eggs for breakfast. [via]