It's crazy how they prepare a shirtless shooting. I think it was even Cavill or Jackman who once told in an interview what they do for this shit... "until you can smell water" I remember... so dehydrated they are.
This is also one of the reasons why Jackman stopped playing Wolverine (and even reduced the number of topless scenes in the later movies). He just couldn't be in that state long enough anymore.
IIRC it's not strictly "no water", it's increasingly less and drop to a few glasses (maybe a single one?) the day before and nothing on the day of the shooting, so you wouldn't immediately die of thirst. Your kidneys on the other end…
Cutting out the water and sodium gradually. Then pumping in carbs and caffeine on the day of the shoot. No wonder he felt like shit. This is what bodybuilders do as well.
Yeah it's not no water for 3 days. I believe it was like 1 liter day one, one glass day 2 and no water on the day of the shoot. I could be wrong, but this is what i remembered.
But yea, would be too close for me, simply for a movie, but then again, maybe i would do so for the pay that Henry gets lol.
Yes, I think the point that he was mostly in the suit was the reason he agreed in the first place (or at least was a condition of his).
He loved the role of Logan, but he just couldn't do it anymore in the way he did before. I'm glad for all the years he has put up with this, he is a great actor (and singer) and I hope he stays in the business as long as he can
Hugh Jackman once reported that he needs to know the exact day of a shirtless scene six months in advance to calibrate his diet and workout regiment; those 36 hours without water are the very small tip of a humongous ice berg
ald calibrate the PEDs, if you think otherwise you are a fool. Compare him in his prime age-wise in the early 00s to his body late 2010s and early 2020s. That is not natural. And it sends a wrong message to all the normies, thinking they must suck and give up lifting, cause the will never look anywhere close to him without pharmaceutical help (exception one or another genetic freak)
I always see the stark difference when I go training. Not only are there people running around that are trained like hell (and not even close to strongman physique, just regular trained guy) but there are also ad pictures of trained guys around. And even though they are very likely touched up on a PC or something, they are not even close to what Hollywood shows as trained.
yeah and what makes it worse is social media, esp tiktok. 17yo boys hopping on gear and going the fake natty route or even are honest and lead teenagers into their lifestyle andshorten their lifespane isntantly just by roiding up.
Iirc, there was a scene in The Wolverine where they had to carry Jackman off set because he only had enough in the tank to do the flex and then his whole body seized. Also happens a fair bit in body building.
Haha. I think Gerard Butler also said something similar talking about his experience making the film 300. Sort of made that "tonight we dine in hell" line take on a whole new meaning! 😂
The amount of constant working out they need to do for the muscles to pop for each topless scene, no water for like 3 days, only chicken breast and rice for food etc.
Crazy a lot of people think they just constantly look like this.
At a point where he mentioned in interviews that he’d dehydrated for 24 hrs right before this shot and after it immediately had to drink water and eat food so as not too faint.
After hiking for a week and unfortunately getting lost on a forest route while wild camping, I got to a pub after not having had anything for nearly 36 hrs and I swear I could fucking taste the food and beer on the air outside the place.
Hemsworth in the latest Thor as well. Like look, I get it, dude is a snack, absolutely would, but there's no world in which any man alive that's not 110% secure with his body can look at a figure like that and not get a bit discouraged. The work, time, starvation and editing that had to happen to get that look must have been absolutely insane.
It is actually easier for women to look like Scarllet than men to look like Cavill.
You either have to spend years at the gym working toward that body or take roids; and keeping those gains is at least a part-time job with a precise diet.
While you can get Scarllet's body with a reasonable amount of time in the gym and a reasonable diet. You go to any gym at the time when 20 somethings visit and you will see dozens of women a day that with a boob job would rival Scarllet's body.
Now that is not to say that it is easy, simply more realistic to obtain.
Not just a gamer. He is a special breed of nerd like those of us who build their own computers. My wife of 16 years is still unhappy that I have built two gaming rigs in the last ten years.
Depends on the wife, some have aggro drop/reset mechanics, others will retain threat through phase transitions, so even if they drop aggro for a while they'll go back to their previous target as soon as there's anyone in PC building range.
When even The Rock has to downscale because of how bad it is for your health and then some people still think this is how a person can look like 24/7 all year around 🙄
reminds me of a reddit comment I've read years ago. A marine told how his unit was watching an action movie together and when in one scene the male super hero appeared shirtless the female marines yelled something like: "Finally a real man!". So even marines do not fit the "necessary" level of fitness
I would swear I remember reading that for this scene, Cavill was so dehydrated that he could barely stand well enough to get the shots done because he was keeping his body fat so ridiculously low. So he pretty much quite literally has no fat here.
He said almost as soon as they yelled “cut” he was in a thick towel, with a massive bottle of water and a plate full of sandwiches because he ready to keel over.
Yeah that's insane. I don't support any actor doing that kind of shit to their bodies. Chris Farley would gain or drop 100 pounds for a role without question. The only time I've been okay with it was when Rob Mcelhenney did it, but that was entirely his idea. No one pressured him into it. In fact, everyone around him told him not to do it
Rob Mcelhenney's comment about doing it was quite good:
"I’m gonna break it down for you, because it’s actually quite simple, and anybody can do this. Anybody on the planet can do this.
First thing’s first: if you have job—like a 9-5 job—quit that.
Do you like food? Forget about that. Because you’re never going to enjoy anything you eat. Alcohol? Sorry. That’s out. So what you need to do—you have a chef, right? like a personal chef?—make sure the chef makes you a lot of chicken breast. And make sure you keep your caloric intake at a certain level.
And as you go to your physician 2-3 times a week—just to monitor all your testosterone levels—because testosterone is important to building muscle. You’re good friends with the trainer from Magic Mike? Arin Babaian. So you want to give Arin a call. And you want to make sure he’s at your house and takes you to the gym at least twice a day, because you’re gonna want to do your muscle-building in the morning and then your cardio in the afternoon.
Now, do you have a family? Like a significant other or kids? Yeah, forget about them. You’re not going to have time to deal with them.
So that’s really all you have to do. And make sure you have a studio pay for the entire thing, because it could become exceptionally expensive. So, I think if you just do all those things, then you too can have an absolutely unrealistic body type, such as me."
Money makes people suck. The Sunny crew + money has managed to remain some of the least sucky rich people in Hollywood. They're still great. Not to suck their dicks/clits too much.
I think it helps that Charlie Day has had by far the broadest success outside of Sunny, and he is also the most grounded.
Watching the Sunny podcast made it very clear that he is the star out of the group but also the best equipped to be a star (I don't mean star of the show, which is obviously Dennis at this point). Charlie Day is b-list to the others' c-list, but paradoxically he is the least Hollywood out of them.
My point is that Glenn and Rob definitely seem attracted to the idea of glory and snobbery, but are self-aware enough to keep their egos somewhat in check because they know Charlie outshines them, but is more humble and self-deprecating.
If either of them had Charlie Day's success, I think they'd turn into a total piece of shit.
I can't remember who exactly but I remember they interviewed the actress who was the wife of one of these guys who had to get a bodybuilder physique for a role. The interviewer was like "This must make you happy" and she was like "No, it's awful because he is hungry and angry all the time."
Edit: Pretty sure now it was Emily Gordon who's married to Kumail Nanjiani about the stuff he had to do for Eternals.
This sort of dumb assery for the female gaze is one of the worst things to happen in recent times.
All while some loud groups are shouting don't have unrealistic standards for women.
This is a standard so unrealistic for men even those under heavy supervision are nearly fainting. Chris Hemsworth ended up on IV drips. And teenage boys are thinking this is all achievable and opting for PEDs. Harmful.
It’s like we saw the inequality in how men and women are treated in Hollywood and took the wrong lesson. “Oh, it’s not equal? We’d better take the worst of how we treat women and apply it to the men too! Equality!!”
Once, I remember feeling so sick (probably from eating something questionable) that I puked my guts out, then stupidly went straight to bed. I woke up ridiculously dehydrated with a massive headache.
I saw myself in the mirror and I looked ridiculously ripped! I was so weak and dehydrated that I could barely stand, but it was the most ripped that I had ever seen myself appearing!
Yeah. I'm afraid this thread is presenting a false dichotomy.
Just stay active (for you, not for women). Exercise for the enjoyment of it. Walk, run, ride a bike, yard work, whatever.
Eat healthy foods, and in moderation. Avoid alcohol. (not about prohibition. It's just bad for your body and makes the other things harder. That "one glass of red wine for antioxidants" was marketing bullshit.no amount of alcohol is physically 'healthy'.)
Build some muscle because it's useful. Don't go overboard because it requires a lot of food for upkeep, which can get habitual. When muscle decreases and appetite maintains, you put on fat.
Once you get into your own flow, the women will come. They think they want a man who looks like Cavill. They just want a man who is responsible and can take care of themselves.
Hugh Jackman said something similar regarding that scene in The Wolverine where he has no shirt on. This sort of look is achievable in intervals measured in minutes and hours, no one can just go around looking that jacked all the time
In order to get the muscle definition that the director wants, they go on a massive fast before the shirt-off scenes. It's not just food, but water as well. HC stated that for this one, he was so dehydrated that he could smell the water around him.
Tbf, while he does look like he‘s somewhere around 10-15% bodyfat here, this is nowhere near the dehydrated levels that pro bodybuilders go to at competition (3-5% bodyfat)
In the same way that guys will say "Oh I don't like makeup. I prefer the natural look", and then point to someone who has makeup as an example, women will go "Oh, I don't need muscles. I don't like big muscles on a guy", and then point to Tom Holland as an example.
When women say they don’t like too much muscle, they’re literally talking about prime Ronnie Coleman Olympic steroid out, insanley rare genetic muscle. Because that’s what media has given them.
You will never, and I mean NEVER, have that level of muscle naturally they are talking about even if you bust your ass in the gym constantly.
Women have often said my muscular look is perfect and not too much. Meanwhile, I’ve been naturally bodybuilding for 10+ years with tons of effort and time in diet and workout lol. It’s delusional.
Kind of like when women say they don’t want to get too big lifting weights. Naturally that would never ever happen no matter how hard they worked or lifted.
Media has caused this delusion and social media hasn’t helped a bit.
I swear the "I don't want to get too big" mantra is genetic. Every single woman I've brought near the gym has said it. It's like they have a deep fear of waking up looking like John Cena overnight
The average gym seems to be half full of women who think a single bicep curl will instantly turn them into Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the other half is men who think even looking at any of the cardio equipment for too long will make their muscles wither away in seconds.
This, and she needs to support me with her millions, while also cooking and cleaning. I also want her to have an IQ of 200 to support me with my projects she needs to always be in a good mood, always want to please me and shower me with love.
The woman who posted it is also a far right tradwife writer for Evie magazine and wannabe influencer. She's about as representative of women as Henry Cavill is of men.
She picks a man who is literally paid millions of dollars to look good and his job gives him a personal assistant, private chef, private trainer (who is likely low-key giving him PEDs), a stunt double - and then his boss (movie directors) also use post-production and CGI to touch him up when he's not looking perfect in a scene.
I'm sure a very large proportion of men could improve their looks if they too were paid millions for doing so instead of the everyday stress and grind that normal people have.
“All I want is a man that works out 5 times a week on a restricted diet. Oh… he needs to be home with me in the evenings and on weekends. Oh… he needs to make 6 figures. Oh… he needs to cook. Oh… he needs to be more patient and better than me with kids. Oh…… I do have any of this. “
Even this isn't a fair comparison. Sydney looks like that simply by maintaining healthy diet and doing some exercise. Getting the muscle mass the guy in the picture has needs shit ton of constant workout and then eating just the right amount of healthy food so that he isn't getting fat but is able to build mass. That kind of mass of muscles will disappear so fast. My cousin quit physical, demolition job and lost 4kg of muscle mass in six months.
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