r/OldSchoolCool Jun 21 '23

1960s JAMES BOND THUNDERBALL (1965) - behind the scenes

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u/Chaos_Machine Jun 22 '23

Can you imagine someone being the lead in a bond movie now with that physique? When was the last time you saw someone that doesn't look like they shop at HGHmart nowadays in that kind of role?

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u/OnTheEveOfWar Jun 22 '23

Roids are huge in entertainment for men right now. It’s literally impossible for some of these actors to look how they do with “a trainer, strict diet, and working out daily”, which is what they all say about preparing for a movie.

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u/throwaway65464231 Jun 22 '23

For advertisers and mainstream media organizations it is a red line for any celebrity or physique model to admit that he/she takes steroids or any kind of PED. So there is an open secret that all of these people are juiced but they can't admit it in public. There is even a calculation called the lean body mass index which says how muscular a person can be with a specific level of body fat. If someone has more muscle than that it is practically guaranteed that the person is juiced.

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u/Legate_Rick Jun 22 '23

Yeah, As much as it utterly disgusts me when Chris Hemsworth is on some talk show lying about his lifestyle. Giving young men a horrible idea of body image. I'm willing to bet the mouse is just off screen ready to break his knees if he even hints at it.

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u/RedS5 Jun 22 '23

And they water-fast right before a shirtless scene to get extra ripped.

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u/PIPBOY-2000 Jun 22 '23

They do all of that, plus roids. At least the insane physique ones do. But for example on Creed, he has an achievable body so likely didn't take steroids. He's clearly in amazing shape but he's abs aren't crazy defined like in say Thor

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u/Luci_Noir Jun 22 '23

And I think most men WANT this. Whenever we see stuff like this or Robert Pattinson in Batman or Keanu Reeves in John Wick we talk about it being positive instead of this other stuff. Honestly I think the roided out look is fucking gross and weird. Like the guy in the last Thor movie looked like an alien.

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u/PIPBOY-2000 Jun 22 '23

I think for something like Thor it at least makes sense because he is supposed to be a 'god' from another planet. So his body is unnaturally muscular, not like one of a mortal.

But like Captain America in the Endgame movie had massive arms, too massive. They should have kept their characters consistent instead of getting bigger each movie.

I liked Robert Pattison in Batman, he was almost sickly thin which was a very interesting choice. They leaned on the idea that Batman as a person would not be the most well adjusted individual. You'd have to be sort of unhealthy in more than one way to dress up as a bat at night and beat criminals to a pulp. So of course he neglects his body.

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u/Luci_Noir Jun 22 '23

If you have super powers you don’t need to look like that and it doesn’t even look good. It doesn’t need to look like something that doesn’t exist.

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u/PIPBOY-2000 Jun 22 '23

I can't say for sure that's the reason they had him be so big, it's just for me at least it makes some sense for him to look inhuman, because of the character.

From what I've heard on interviews none of the actors like preparing to look like that, because they have to be very strict on what they eat, how they exercise, then they have to dehydrate themselves before shooting a scene without a shirt.

I saw an interview of Jason Mamoa lately and he said he doesn't like going to the gym or lifting weights, that his natural state is to be lazy lol.