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These days, John Goodman<\/a> has aged into his role as one of Hollywood\u2019s most beloved, reliable, and regularly employed character actors. In the last few years alone, he\u2019s starred in the as-yet-untitled blockbuster uniting Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu and Tom Cruise, played a series regular on HBO\u2019s hilarious The Righteous Gemstones, and appeared in the Godzilla spinoff TV series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. <\/p>\n However, he wasn\u2019t always so comfortable with his working life, and once went through such a dark period that he tried to quit his most famous role at the height of its popularity \u2013 before being blackmailed into staying.<\/p>\n Before 1988, Goodman steadily built his career as a movie actor by delivering memorable supporting turns in films like Raising Arizona, Revenge of the Nerds, and The Big Easy. However, his career jumped up several notches when he was cast as the co-lead of an ABC sitcom that became the number one show in America as quickly as its second season. That show was, of course, Roseanne, in which Goodman played comedian Roseanne Barr\u2019s sporadically employed construction worker husband Dan Conner. <\/p>\n While Roseanne was a consistent hit in the ratings and an essential part of ABC\u2019s television lineup, the set was a pretty tumultuous place to work. Barr wasn\u2019t exactly known for being a wallflower, and regularly fought with studio executives, while Goodman struggled to cope with the intense pressure he felt from becoming so famous. In fact, to deal with losing his anonymity, he admitted to drowning his sorrows in many a bottle<\/a>, and he soon became a full-blown alcoholic. By the time the show\u2019s seventh season rolled around, Goodman was in a bad way.<\/p>\n \u201cI got complacent and ungrateful,\u201d Goodman admitted to Today. \u201cI wanted to leave the show. I handled it like I did everything else, by sittin\u2019 on a bar stool. And that made it worse.\u201d <\/p>\n Regarding his dependency on alcohol, which he was finally able to conquer in 2007, Goodman told The New York Times, \u201cI don\u2019t know how much the old Jackie Daniel\u2019s franchise ruined my memory, which is going anyway, because of my advancing decrepitude. I had a 30-year run, and at the end, I didn\u2019t care about anything. I was just fed up with myself. I didn\u2019t even want to be an actor anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n During that dark period in 1995, though, Goodman didn\u2019t just idly talk about wanting out of Roseanne \u2013 he actually walked off the set and told producers he was quitting. He claimed he thought the show was \u201cready to die after the sixth season,\u201d but to his chagrin, nobody else involved felt the same. They also weren\u2019t about to let Goodman walk away from something that was making everyone so much money, so they made him an offer he couldn\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n \u201cI tried to get out in the seventh,\u201d Goodman confessed to The New Republic in 2014. \u201cThey suggested that if I did so, they wouldn\u2019t mind taking my house from me. \u2018Thank you very much,\u2019 I said, and I stuck around.\u201d<\/p>\n