Alexander Skarsgård ate every two to three hours and consumed 3,200 calories a day for The Northman

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AlexanderSkarsgård pushed himself to the limit to transform his body for his new film The Northman.In an interview with Variety, the 45-year-old actor's trainerMagnus Lygdback described the grueling fitness and diet regimen that the True Blood star underwent to play the role of the Viking Prince Amleth inRobert Eggers' action/adventure movie.'This character, his spiritual animals were a bear and wolf.

So that is exactly what we were trying to embody in terms of Alex's build and movements,' Lygdback told the media outlet. Getting into character:Alexander Skarsgård pushed himself to the limit to transform his body for his new film The Northman.

Seen in April 2022 He continued, 'The wolf is really agile, and then you have the size of the bear in this Viking. You can just get one look at him and get scared.

That was [the elevator pitch] for what we were trying to achieve [with Alex's transformation].' Lygdback is a renowned Swedish health and wellness expert and movement coach who previously worked withSkarsgård on the 2016 adventure film The Legend of Tarzan.He explained that his aim was to help the Sweden native shapehis trapezius muscles so that they were bulging and defined through the process that he called'postural manipulation.' Bulking up:In an interview with Variety, the 45-year-old actor's trainer Magnus Lygdback described the grueling fitness and diet regimen that the True Blood star undertook to play the role of the Viking Prince Amleth in Robert Eggers' action/adventure movieLygdback trainedSkarsgård six days a week in the three months leading up to The Northman'sproduction start date, which was originally in March 2020.Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, production was delayed until September 2020 so the.