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Zac Efronis working on a beefy new role.
The 35-year-oldGreatest Beer Run Everactor was photographed on the Louisiana set of his upcoming filmThe Iron Clawon Monday. Efron sported a noteworthy new hairdo ashe stood shirtlesswith a towel around his waist while checking his phone.
InA24’sIron Claw, Efron plays pro wrestler Kevin Von Erich. The film is based on a true story and tracks the “rise and fall of the Von Erich family, a dynasty of wrestlers who made a huge impact on the sport from the 1960s to the present day,” according to the studio.
Efron recently toldMen’s Healthabout bulking up for the part, explaining that he had adifferent approach this time thanthe training he did for the 2017 movieBaywatch. He said he “fell into a pretty bad depression, for a long time” after recovering from the rigorous training for that project.
Kevin Von Erich in 2009.Bob Levey/WireImage
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“ThatBaywatchlook, I don’t know if that’s really attainable,” he said. “There’s just too little water in the skin. Like, it’s fake; it looks CGI’d. And that required Lasix, powerful diuretics, to achieve. So I don’t need to do that. I much prefer to have an extra, you know, 2 to 3 percent body fat.”
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Added Efron, “At one point, that was a dream of mine — what it would be like to not have to be in shape all the time? What if I just say, ‘F— it’ and let myself go? So I tried it, and I was successful. And for all the reasons I thought it would be incredible, I was just miserable. My body would not feel healthy; I just didn’t feel alive. I felt bogged down and slow.”
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The actor’s new approach features “a new awareness of injury” in his post-Baywatchlife and a period of time during which he tore an ACL, dislocated a shoulder, broke his wrist, threw out his backand shattered his jaw— all of which but the latter injury were sustained during training, according toMen’s Health.
“I enjoy pushing myself and really laying it all out, to the point where I kind of have to do it,” he said. “Otherwise I don’t feel like myself.”
source: people.com
