Dave Bautista Is Losing Weight After Being an ‘Uncomfortable’ 315 Pounds for a Movie Role: ‘The More I Trim Down the Better I Look Next to Other Actors’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Dave Bautista recently told content creator Chris Van Vliet that his recent weight loss can be attributed to his acting career, mainly because he doesn’t want to appear too “distracting” on camera opposite his more normal-sized co-stars.
The “Guardians of the Galaxy” favorite said he’s “absolutely” been trimming down to play a more diverse range of acting roles. “I started trimming down because I got really big for a role.
Uncomfortably big,” Bautista said. “For ‘Knock at the Cabin’ I got really big. I was around 315 pounds…I put the weight on really fast and I put on an uncomfortable amount of weight and it took forever to shed it out.” Bautista decided it was time to lose some weight, and as the pounds came off he realized that not only was he feeling better emotionally but he was also becoming more natural on screen. “The more I trimmed down the better I looked on camera and the better I looked next to other actors,” he explained. “I’m still a large human being.
At 6’4 and 240 pounds next to your typical actor, I look like a gorilla and it’s distracting. I’ll probably lose a few more pounds.
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