The actor is playing identical twins in HBO’s ‘I Know This Much Is True’ and it sounds like he’s had to take some extreme measures for the double role.
Apparently, Mark Ruffalo went on a really strict diet that had him eating no more than 1000 calories worth of food every day!
And that’s not all! He even challenged himself to do about 500 pushups daily, not to help with the weightloss but with something partaining to the character’s profile!
This was needed in order to portray each twin characters on the HBO series since, while they are identical, their weights differ quite a bit.
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