To play the part of Erastus "Deaf" Smith, a character with tuberculosis, the 49-year-old actor admitted on "Today" that he went about shedding the weight in an extreme way.
"He had a consumption of tuberculosis. And so I got there and I was probably about 175. I left and I was about 130," he explained. "I ate a can of tuna fish a day. I did it in the most unhealthy way possible ... I didn't consult with a doctor or anything. We had said maybe we should lose, like, 10 pounds, and I just kept going and going, and by the end of the movie, I was just [moving] like a snail."
(Morgan in 2012 and in May 2015.)
Going to such extremes to make the character look authentic may have had something to do with the 4.1 million viewers who tuned into the 10-hour History channel miniseries, which premiered on Monday night.
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