Dave Bautista is addressing his weight loss amid health concerns raised by fans. The Knock at the Cabin actor said in a recent interview that his initial weight gain was initially for the M.
Night Shyamalan psychological horror film. “I started trimming down for a particular reason. One, I started trimming down because I just got fat,” Bautista said in an interview with social media personality Chris Van Vliet that he shared on TikTok. “I got really big for a role and it was uncomfortably big… Knock at the Cabin… I got really big.
I was like around 315 pounds and I put the weight on really fast.” Bautista noted that he had to put on weight “between films” and only “had a very short period of time” to gain weight, which he did by eating french fries and pancakes.
The Guardians of the Galaxy alum recalled the director telling him that he wanted Bautista “to look like a great big guy” and not “to look like a powerlifter.” “Looking back at it, I probably over did it,” Bautista said. “I was probably a little too big, but at the time, I was just thinking, I gotta get big.
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