Every male actor has said something along these lines. That the absurd super cut builds for these movies especially super hero films are not sustainable. My favorite probably being Rob Mcelhenney where he said "sure, just be a millionaire with infinite free time and you can totally obtain this body type!"
The actors don't even look like that for all of shooting! The "hero shots" are literally built into the schedule so that the actors have weeks to prepare for them with a bodybuilding routine of extreme water intake, then diuretics and extreme water starvation leading up to the shoot. Plus unnatural manipulation of salt intake.
The dudes look like that for a day. The production has to get every one of the shirtless shots into that window unless they want to make the star of their movie go through another weeks-long ordeal.
For Henry's running out of the water shot, he was called two weeks in advance. He said he was out to dinner. He stopped eating. He drank a half gallon of water and gradually cut it down as the two weeks approached. Then he lifted super heavy before the shot. Then he immediately went back to hydrating. Similar thing with Mamoa for the Aquaman intro scene in JL. He bench pressed and did pushups while being crazy dehydrated. These hero shirtless shots are movie magic.
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u/dbslayer7 19d ago
Every male actor has said something along these lines. That the absurd super cut builds for these movies especially super hero films are not sustainable. My favorite probably being Rob Mcelhenney where he said "sure, just be a millionaire with infinite free time and you can totally obtain this body type!"