Nearly 30 years ago, John Goodman confidently predicted his future: “Five years from now, the Roseanne show’s gonna be history and I’ll probably be just a trivia question from the late Eighties.”
Yet here he still is, perhaps Hollywood’s best character actor, with one of the most recognisable faces on the big — and small — screen. He has more than 100 movie credits to his name — from Oscar best picture winners The Artist and Argo to numerous Coen brothers movies, most notably Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski. Even his most famous role, as Dan Conner, the wry, cash-strapped family man from the sitcom Roseanne, is not history (although the show recently had to rebrand itself as The Conners). His distinctively deep voice,