[quote]roguevampire wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]roguevampire wrote:
How many times have we seen celebrities putting on tons of muscle in a rather short amount of time for a particular role. So many times, its hard to name them all. Just a couple off the top of my head. Russell crowe in gladiator, charlie sheen in his comedy spoof of rambo. This has happened tons more times, where an actor puts on mass, without gaining any fat at all. In fact, they are normally leaner, with the added size.[/quote]
Actually, the lack of pics of actors prior to shooting plus a growing number of actors now stating in interviews that they have to cut down suggests the opposite. Crowe was well overweight going into Gladiator from The Insider. Sheen screwed off to an island to train for Hot Shots: Part Deux. All he did was train- and out of all of the actors who’ve ever had to train for a role, he’s at the top of the “most likely to have used anabolics” list.[/quote]
Whether Russel crow was fat or not before the gladiator role, he gained size and got leaner. Whether charlie went off to some island and trained. so what, lol. He most likely doesn’t train more than any of us do. I have heard it on this site, not really from the articles but from guys on the forums, where they say, natural or not, you can’t gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. Which is the stupidest thing i have ever heard. Of course you can do both. You think these actors get 2 or 3 years go get big, then lose all the fat to be lean. They are given maybe 3 or 4 months. They eat good, train hard, maybe take some anabolics, who knows, but they get bigger and leaner. not bigger and fatter. [/quote]
None of that prevaricating reinforces your initial comment that actors stay lean during movie prep. The topic has been debated enough in the past to know that you’ve seen at least some of the talk on transformations and are distorting the point to make ripples, but I’ll play:
From the article:
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"I think it was far less healthy actually putting on the weight.
"I was lifting really heavy weights and just stuffing so much into my mouth.
“My body was under so much pressure I could feel it. I had a doctor say to me ‘You are going nuts. You have to slow down’.”
Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan, best known for his Oscar nominated independent film Memento, starring Australia’s Guy Pearce, had been impressed with Bale’s performances in American Psycho and The Machinist.
The director was not prepared for what he saw when Bale arrived at the London studio ready to play Batman.
“I turned up in England and I was bearded and had long hair and I was walking down the hallway and Chris Nolan was walking towards me and I said ‘Hi Chris’ and he had absolutely no idea who I was,” Bale said.
"When he got close he was like ‘Holy f… You look like Grizzly Adams. What’s going on?’
"Then he said: ‘OK, well you did OK, you got really good like how we asked you to, but maybe … could get you a little leaner now’.
"Chris was nice about it, but there were some others, like some English guys in the crew who I’d worked with before who weren’t so gentle.
“They said ‘Hey Chris, what film are we making here? Fatman?’.” [/quote]
There are also a few snaps out there of Bale between The Machinst and Batman Begins, where he is heavier than we see him in the first Bat-movie. Granted, he’s no Orca, but he evidently slimmed down for the movie. Plus, I don’t think he stopped where he was in the pic going by the article I posted (he’s not quite “Grizzly Adams”).