Jeremy Allen White Recalls Group Body Shaving Session With ‘Iron Claw’ Co-Stars Zac Efron and Harris Dickinson: ‘We Looked Ridiculous’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickson didn’t know each other well before shooting their new drama “The Iron Claw.” But then came their first wardrobe fitting and camera tests. “Our bodies had to be completely shaved,” White told me at a reception for the film at NeueHouse Hollywood on Monday in Los Angeles. “We were strangers at the time.
Now I know them and love them, but at the time, it was like, ‘Hi, nice to meet you and yes, they’re shaving off all of our body hair.’” “They shaved everything,” Dickinson said. “It was incredible but we also looked ridiculous.” Directed by Sean Durkin, the film tells the real-life story of the Von Erich brothers, Kevin (Efron), Kerry (White), David (Dickinson) and Mike (Stanley Simons), one of wrestling’s most famous families that suffered an enormous amount of personal tragedy.
Following the shaving, the actors had to squeeze into their itsy-bitsy 1980s wrestling costumes. “It was always smaller, always shorter.
It was never, ‘Cover up their skin,’” White remembered. “I don’t think any of us were confident in those first fittings. “We were like, ‘We have a lot of work to do.’” And work they did.
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