When most actors take on a big blockbuster type film they usually have to change their appearance because they are either too skinny or too big, Total Film have come up with a list of stars who have buffed up for their roles in these movies.
Chris Evans
The Role: Steve Rogers/Captain America in Captain America
The Technique: Chris Evans did gym sessions a-plenty and ate lots of protein-rich foods. He said to MTV, “It’s the workouts that, you know, make you want to vomit. It’s horrible.”
Did They Keep It Up?:: In a word, no, again, to MTV, he said, “Oh my god, when shooting was done I just stopped going to the gym completely for about three months.”
Christian Bale
The Role: Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins
The Technique: Bale went straight from The Machinist where he was 130 pounds, and got to 230 pounds, 40 pounds more than what Christopher Nolan wanted. He said to IGN, “I couldn’t do one push up the first day. All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that.”
Did They Keep It Up?:: None of his weight-changes have been as drastic as this. However, he has since slimmed down for The Fighter, in the role of heroin addict Dickie Ecklund.
Hugh Jackman
The Role: Logan/Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The Technique: According to Mike Ryan, Jackman’s personal trainer, they would train in the morning, so for a 6am filming start, they would be in the gym at 4am, to do an hour and a half of training.
Did They Keep It Up?:: Jackman has to get even bigger for The Wolverine, he told the LA Times: “[Darren Aronofsky] said that Wolverine, in the comics, is powerful, stocky – you know, he’s short and thick. So he said, ‘I want you to go there, get bigger’.”
Sylvester Stallone
The Role: Rocky in Rocky
The Technique: For Rocky III, Stallone would do a two mile jog, 18 rounds of sparring, two hours of weightlifting and skipping. Then he would take a nap, go for a run and go for a swim.
Did They Keep It Up?:: After Rocky, Stallone’s body became instantly recognisable and he’s done another five Rocky films and four Rambo films since then. Plus a whole host of other action films.
Demi Moore
The Role: Jordan O’Neill in G.I. Jane
The Technique: Moore told Harper’s Bazaar, “I just wanted to be believable.” And believable she was, after her two hours a day pumping iron and breaking it up with a six-mile run.
Did They Keep It Up?:: Well, after 1997, Demi Moore took a break for three years. She said that preparing for the role nearly killed her, but her body isn’t looking too bad at all these days.
Christopher Reeve
The Role: Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Movie
The Technique: High-protein, weights and 90 minutes on a trampoline. Reeve said to a magazine in 1981, “I put on thirty pounds, all muscle, in fact, I found muscles I never knew I had.”
Did They Keep It Up?:: He continued the role for another three films, so had to keep in ship-shape for those.
Mark Wahlberg
The Role: Micky Ward in The Fighter
The Technique: In 2008, he said, “‘I get up everyday at 5am to train for a movie that might not even happen. It’s depressing.” Training for a film that isn’t even definite, there’s dedication.
Did They Keep It Up?:: Wahlberg didn’t keep up quite as intense a workout, but with a Fighter 2 likely to happen, he’ll have to get back into shape.
Robert De Niro
The Role: Jake La Motta in Raging Bull
The Technique: De Niro became La Motta. He trained with him, followed his regime and even fought in three organised boxing fights, winning two of them.
Did They Keep It Up?:: De Niro has been gaining and losing weight for his roles long before Christian Bale became renowned for it. His rolls have come and gone with his roles.
Gerard Butler
The Role: King Leonidas in 300
The Technique: The whole film has Butler in nothing more than a cape and some pants, so he needed to be flawless. Mountain climber and conditioning coach Mark Twight bulked the stars up. The workout involved pull-ups, deadlifts, pushups and flipping tyres. Once Butler was done with his co-stars, he’d then do another training session on his own. We need a sit down after hearing all that.
Did They Keep It Up?:: He’s not a real Spartan, you’d be mad to keep a training regime like that up.
Ed Norton
The Role: Derek Vinyard in American History X
The Technique: High protein and strength building exercises were the order of the day to get Ed from being a weak looking skinny fella to a neo-Nazi prison worn warrior.
Did They Keep It Up?:: Not really, Norton had to split his personality into himself and Brad Pitt to start fighting anyone in Fight Club. He still threw his own punches around though.
You have to admire their dedication, it certainly wouldn’t be me.
It looks like a new celebrity couple is on the cards in the form of Jessica Biel and Gerard Butler because the two have been spotted riding on a motorcycle together over the weekend.
While two people riding on a bike together doesn’t necessarily mean they are hooking up this is Hollywood after all and there has been rumors lately about the pair, while they were shooting Playing the Field last month.
Although their rep tell People that they are “just friends” and a source says they were “friendly but professional” it does look like a little romantic day out with the two of them on the bike and we all know his reputation.
I guess we’ll see what happens between these two, but I wouldn’t be surprised if by the end of the summer they have gone public and broken up already.
It seems like Jessica Biel is moving on after her split from Justin Timberlake.
Us Magazine is reporting that Biel was spotted getting cozy with Gerard Butler, her co-star in the upcoming movie ‘Playing the Field,’ just five days after the announcement of the surprise split.
Biel and Butler were first spotted together at a crew member’s birthday party at a restaurant in Shreveport, La., where the film is being shot.
A source is reported saying, “When Gerry got there, he made a beeline for Jessica. He was really flirting with her.”
A few days later, the couple was seen enjoying cocktails together, and reports have said that Biel and Butler have gone out for dinner a few times.
But a source close to Biel is reported saying that she only wants to be friends with the ’300′ actor.
A friend of Butler’s told E! Online not to expect things to get serious between the two actors. “Gerard says he wants to settle down eventually, but he won’t anytime soon, promise, and not with Jessica.”
Happy Friday! Today, we’ve got the ten best quotes from celebrities from this week. Kristen Stewart talks about groping her teenaged co-star Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Love Hewitt talking about her boobs and Jessica Simpson hitting back at John Mayer’s sexual napalm comment.
“I get a lot of nipple notes.â€
– Pamela Anderson, after receiving a pair of pasties to prevent a wardrobe malfunction on Dancing with the Stars, to Ellen DeGeneres
“I think I get laid less now than I used to, because I’m way more paranoid now.”
– Gerard Butler, on how he’s scaled back his playboy ways, to Men’s Journal
“She was 15, and I wasn’t allowed to grope her.”
– Kristen Stewart, on her intimate scenes with Runaways costar Dakota Fanning, to Access Hollywood
“They are like Tweedledee and Tweedledum. You can’t separate them really.”
Remember the little thing about Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler‘s faux romance? Well it is heating up apparently because her ass (literally..check the photos below) is in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, with him at the moment.
Aniston is currently in Cabo celebrating her 40th birthday (she turns 40-years-old on February 11th) with her friends Courtney Cox, Sheryl Crow and of course Butler.
But I’m so sick of talking about her relationship with Butler, it will be over by the time their new movie they did together comes out on DVD, so instead I am going to talk about her ass.
Look at that ass in the photos, I was surprised it belonged to Jennifer Aniston but what a nice surprise to have right? Even if she and Gerard Butler aren’t really together, I hope he at least gets to tap that for putting up with this fauxmance crap.
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source: Jennifer Aniston Bikini Pictures Go Ass Up [Egotastic]
You know how all the magazines, blogs and entertainment channels love going on about Jennifer Aniston and her love life? Well this is not the case with CNN, who are sick of her crap.
The other night CNN’s Showbiz Tonight did a 9 minute segment talking about how they are sick of Jennifer and her fauxmances everytime she has a new movie coming out.
You see Aniston has a new movie coming out with Gerard Butler, called The Bounty Hunter, and at last weeks Golden Globe awards she and Butler were seen hugging and being all “romantic” together.
In the past she has done this with John Mayer and Vince Vaughn when she had new movies coming out. Showbiz Tonight have seen a pattern with Aniston, they say she has a 3 point checklist:
1. Date a famous guy.
2. Racy magazine photos.
3. Tell-all interview about Brad Pitt
All of this is so true but yet we all still want to watch her love life pan out in front of our eyes right? Well not me, I’ve been sick of her for the past 2 years. Her movies aren’t even bad but all the publicity puts me off them instead of making me want to watch. Check out the video below:
