Quaid's Off-Screen Battle
March 12, 2006
The quest to be thin in Hollywood doesn't limit itself to starlets, supermodels or the next hot, young thing.
Dennis Quaid has admitted in an interview with Best Life magazine that he battled anorexia in the mid-90s as he prepared to take on Doc Holliday's ailing frame for 1994's "Wyatt Earp."
Holliday died of tuberculosis and the role required Quaid to appear wasted away, a decidedly new look for the beefy actor whose physique has been on proud display in movies ranging from 1987's "Innerspace" to "Flight of the Phoenix" in 2004. Quaid lost about 40 lbs. to play Holliday, compadre to Kevin Costner Wyatt Earp.