He was actually required to lose about forty pounds for 21 Jump Street so he'd be able to do some of the stunts. So presumably he gained it back once filming had finished.

I was wondering the same thing. I am glad there was already a topic about it & that someone knew the answer. Just tragic that he gained weight cos in that pic you can see that he is otherwise quite a handsome & good looking man.

i think it's from 2010
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners

seth rogan did the same thing, lost weight. they are one and the same to me. they play the same roles, act the same, have the same, sarcastic sense of humor but mostly they remind me of each other because they were both in the same movie, superbad that really skyrocketed both of their careers.

That's terrible but then again it's Hollywood. The land of no shame.

Yeah that's from the short period between Money Ball and 21 Jump Street when he had lost weight.
Now, I'm not aware of his discussing his temporary weight loss at any length, but I wonder if his motivation to lose weight in the first place was actually to improve his health or perhaps the notion that he might get more/varying roles in movies. (Talk on the interwebs at the time as superficial/baseless as it is was that he wasn't as funny thin as he was fat.) And since then he has regained the weight (but perhaps not all of weight based on his recent appearances.) So I again wonder if he is making a conscious choice to appear overweight to "fit" his cast-type (is that right use of the term?)

I was wondering the same thing. I thought IMDb had put the wrong picture up as I genuinely didn't recognise him.

Probably 2011-2012 no later than 2013.

It's from about 2011. That's how he looked in the first jump street.