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#StopDehydratingActors
dehydrate, dehydrate, dehydrate…
It should be illegal to look extreme to the point it is unhealthy. The 2000 Movie was good.
after reading about how he gets this look, I don’t enjoy it. same with The Witcher; yes, it looks attractive, but all I can think about is Henry Cavill talking about how when you’re that dehydrated you can smell water from a distance
The pic from 2000 looks pretty reasonable.
Yeah the whole “dehydrate the fuck out of yourself to make your muscles pop a bit” thing is so irresponsible. Jackman pulled the same thing for the opening prisoner scene in the Les Miserables movie, which was doubly irresponsible because he had to sing, and being dehydrated makes it really difficult to sing well, and potentially puts you at risk to damage your voice. I think I’ve seen interviews where they spent like several hours on that scene because his voice kept breaking. So not only was it super bad for Jackman, it also wasted the rest of the cast and crew’s time.
I don’t think that it was him who decided that it was necessary for the scene, though he might not have been against it. Production would not agree to loose money on multiple takes if they did not want the Jackman abs.
Edit: I agree that it’s a completely irresponsible practice though!
Didn’t he explain one time that the key to looking really shredded for a movie is to get SUPER dehydrated right as filming begins? Think it was because then it makes your abs and other chest muscles stick out really prominently and achieves the Hollywood expectation for how strong guy should look
Henry Cavill had a similar experience as Geralt. He said he could smell water nearby after a while
sniff sniff “smells like water, gotta be…”
Turns out he was method acting in Deadpool & Wolverine all along
Ugh so annoying. So like both in movies and body building, what they’re selling is actually not a healthy or strong physique—but someone who could be on the verge of organ failure.
I like the idea of fitness, and being in functionally good shape, so this sort of exaggeration is something I find uniquely distasteful—portraying a a goal state that is actually just a grift/scam, and that is dangerous to partake in.
Don’t some European countries have regulations against this kind of thing now? Like being forced to mark images as photoshopped and requiring that models have a certain BMI?
I think I heard something similar, so probably.
On that note, I’m well hydrated. REALLY well hydrated…
hydrohomie
Yeah they will typically time the cutting/dehydration to film all the “muscle shots” at the same time. The actors are miserable during this time period, and will and will quickly hydrate/switch to maintenance eating after this
Yeah standard weight cutting, and then aggressive pre-show preparation. Ironically, they’re probably at their weakest during competition / shows, due to the dehydration and starvation beforehand.
The not-shredded wolverine could lift harder and run longer than his tougher looking counterpart.
Steroids are amazing!
look what they took from us
And he looked better in the first one.
It reminds me of an interview I saw with Alan Richardson (?), the guy playing reacher on the Amazon series. It was in support of the new season, but basically the conversation revolved around how exhausting it was to maintain the required physique for the role, and how it meant he couldn’t do some of the things he normally enjoyed—he was too heavy to run without impact injury, and flexibility and reach was an issue.
I’d imagine transitioning between these physiques can probably be challenging and taxing on the body as well.
flexibility and reach was an issue.
This is what peak performance looks like.
It’s perfectly normal for humans to become less matte as they age. Please stop this unnecessary reflectivity shaming.
Funny thing is that the comic character never even had this ott physique. He’s this hairy, barrel-chested little brawler.
Old picture looks like something you could plausibly achieve by going to the gym every day.
Three times a week with a reasonable diet would get most people the first look. And you could actually maintain it.
The second is impossible to maintain for more than short stints.
I would probably have a hard time to bulk up like that.
Huge Jackedman
Holy cow! 24 years! I knew he has been playing Wolverine for quite awhile, but 24 years playing the same character is insane. And he just keeps getting better at it. Haven’t watch the new Deadpool yet, but I’m absolutely looking forward to it. Heard good things.
How old is he now? Mid 50’s?
^He’ll ^be ^doing ^it ^till ^he’s ^90
PED, not even once.
Maybe just once.
I think the older Hugh gets, the better he looks as Wolverine.
It’s definitely not the Disney/Marvel steroid program that Fox didn’t put it’s actors through…
Like, even the world’s best trainers, nutritionists, and anything else couldn’t consistently get these results.
They can take any random actor through that progression in like 9 months now.
There’s no way they’re all able to do it. It’s worse than 90s baseball
It’s not steroids. It’s severe dehydration plus oiling up the actor
Still an awful act - His kidneys could shut down early as a result
I mean, it’s dehydration, but on top of steroids.
Especially when you consider Jackman is fucking 55 years old. In the pic in the left from 20 years ago, he’s too old to look like the pic on the right.
There is zero percent chance he’s not on them.
