The actor Jeff Goldblum has credited working on the Wicked movies with his decision to turn pescatarian.

Speaking on This Morning, Goldblum, 73, said that he had been affected by the film series’ themes of animal cruelty to such an extent that he stopped eating meat.

“Working with [director] Jon Chu [is] amazing,” he said. “It’s changed me. You know, after doing this movie, we talked about the animal cruelty, I stopped eating meat and poultry.”

He added: “We need the world to work for everybody on Earth and every creature, too.”

Goldblum plays the Wizard of Oz in the films, the first of which was released last year and earned 10 Oscar nominations, and the second of which is in cinemas on 21 November. ‘I went vegan on the second day of filming’: James Cromwell on making Babe, the ta

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