John Goodman, 74, displays his 200lbs weight-loss as he makes a rare appearance with wife Anna Beth at Digger premiere

John Goodman was joined by his wife Anna Beth as he attended the premiere for his new film, Digger, in Los Angeles on Monday evening.

The 74-year-old actor has dropped 200lbs after battling a three-decade-long alcohol addiction, and he flaunted the impressive results of his weight loss on the red carpet.

John put on an affectionate display with Anna Beth, 57, who he married in 1989, as they posed for pictures together before the screening.

The Roseanne star was wearing a navy suit and tie, while Anna Beth cut an elegant figure in a maroon dress and matching slingback heels.

Digger is a dark satirical comedy/drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, the Oscar-winning film-maker behind Birdman, The Revenant and Babel.

Leading man Tom Cruise plays Digger Rockwell, an obscenely wealthy, eccentric oil magnate whose actions have helped trigger a catastrophic environmental disaster.

He then sets out to convince the world that he is the person who can save humanity.

Meanwhile, John plays President Compson, the President of the United States, who acts as the political counterweight to Tom's Rockwell.

John now looks completely unrecognisable from the height of his fame, when he won fans for his endearing and layered performance as family patriarch Dan Conner, the husband of the title character played by Roseanne Barr.

His portly figure was the subject of frequent jokes and occasional plot points and he subsequently revealed that at his largest he weighed 400lbs.

After John gave up drinking in 2007, he embarked on a weight-loss process that by three years ago had seen him shed more than 200lbs.

John began to lose weight after he entered rehab in 2007, putting an end to decades of alcoholism during which he would drink on set.

'It was 30 years of a disease that was taking its toll on everyone around me and it had got to the point where, every time I did it, it was becoming more and more debilitating. It was life or death,' he told The Guardian five years later. 'It was time to stop.'

By 2010, he had lost 100lb, having excised sugar from his diet and begun working out six days a week with Serena Williams's trainer Mackie Shilstone, per People.

Being heavier, John said, had been 'a waste. It takes a lot of creative energy to sit on your a** and figure out what you're going to eat next.'

Trainer Mackie observed that the Big Lebowski star 'remembers what it feels like to be extremely heavy and it's something he doesn't want again'. 

He placed John on a 'Mediterranean-style eating plan' and, where exercise was concerned, had him take a daily 10,000 to 12,000 steps with the assistance of a treadmill and an elliptical, he told the New York Post.

John attributed his trimmer frame to 'portion control', a radical departure from his past habit of 'just shoving everything into my mouth', in AARP magazine.

'But I don't want to be an example to anybody when the weight comes thundering back on - when I start eating Crisco out of the can with a spoon and a side of confectioner's sugar,' he added.

He was able to avoid that eventuality so successfully that by 2023, John announced he had rid himself of a staggering 200lb.

At that stage, his workouts consisted largely of such low-intensity activities as walking his dogs, inasmuch as the Covid-19 pandemic had caused his previous boxing regimen to lapse 'because I'm lazy,' he told Rolling Stone.

'I haven't been exercising, but I'm going to start a routine again this summer where I can get some stuff done. I've just let everything go just because I haven't had the energy because of the jobs,' he explained.

John now has a string of projects in various states of completion, including episodes of the podcast drama Hindsight: The Day Before, on which he plays Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Supreme Court Justice behind the famous line that 'free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic'.

His upcoming projects include the film The Hollywood Hitman, in which he plays himself, and the horror movie Skeletons, starring Brie Larson and Willa Fitzgerald.