John Goodman has reportedly suffered an injury on the set of director Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s latest film.
Actor John Goodman suffered a hip injury recently, causing a brief pause in filming to allow him time to recover, according to a statement from a Warner Bros. Pictures spokesperson given to Deadline. The production will resume shooting once Goodman has made a full recovery.
Deadline disclosed that Goodman, aged 72, had a mishap while shooting at Pinewood Studios in the UK and had to be hospitalized. Filming had to be put on hold for two days due to his injury. Sources indicated that it was a minor injury, and Goodman is expected to be back on set by Monday, March 10.
Us Weekly reached out to Warner Bros. and Goodman for comment.
The movie, currently unnamed and being shot in England, is slated for release on October 2, 2026. Apart from Goodman, the film features Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, and Riz Ahmed in starring roles.
“The most powerful man in the world causes a disaster and embarks on a mission to prove that he is the savior of humanity,” the plot summary on IMBD reads.
The film is Iñárritu’s first English-language movie since 2016’s The Revenant. Iñárritu is also a producer of the film and wrote the script with Sabina Berman, Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris.
Goodman has been in the acting business for decades, with credits including 1998’s The Big Lebowski and starring in the hit Max series The Righteous Gemstones series since 2019. In the show, Goodman portrays Dr. Eli Gemstone while Jennifer Nettles plays his late wife, Aimee-Lee Gemstone.
“We would all bring our families there. I brought my son, Magnus, to this last season when we were shooting,” Nettles, 50, exclusively told Us Weekly at The Righteous Gemstones Los Angeles premiere on Wednesday, March 5.
Nettles noted her son knows Goodman because of his work on Monsters Inc. (Goodman voiced monster Sully in 2001’s Monsters, Inc and has since voiced the character in video games, the 2013 sequel Monsters University and on the TV series Monsters at Work from 2021 to 2024.)
“I was like, ‘OK, so you know that John plays mommy’s husband in this show, but do you know who he also is?’ And he was like, ‘Who?’ And I was like, ‘Sully,’” she recalled. “John spoke and Magnus just went and grabbed him and started crying. He couldn’t believe it. So those kinds of sweet connective moments are ones that I will always cherish. John was so, so kind. John was moved too genuinely by it.”
