Mark Ruffalo piled on the pounds for his new role in TV series I Know This Much Is True by eating “bowls and bowls of oatmeal”.
The Avengers actor stars as twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in the new HBO miniseries, written and directed by Blue Valentine filmmaker Derek Cianfrance, and was required to gain weight to play the latter part.
In an interview with Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, Ruffalo revealed that he tried to convince Cianfrance to let him use a fatsuit but instead he adopted a carb-heavy diet to help him gain two stone (12.7 kilograms) in the space of five weeks. “I kept trying to get Derek to change the plan.
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