Actor Khris Davis learned the true meaning of 'no pain, no gain' when he signed on to portray George Foreman for the legendary boxer's biopic.
Actor Khris Davis learned the true meaning of"no pain, no gain" when he signed on to portray for the legendary boxer's biopic. Davis transformed his body to the point where he saw stars, thanks to an exhaustive dietary plan that called for him to go from eating 5,000 calories a day to a whopping 7,000, and gaining 57 pounds in a matter of weeks.
"We took the six weeks off so we could gain the weight," Davis said."I was 225 and then I gained 50 pounds in five weeks, so I went from 225 to 276 in five weeks and I got to 282 total." "I was looking at the plan and looking at how much weight I was going to gain per week and I was never going to make that weight," he said."And everybody had taken off, right? For me to gain weight, what does it look like? They come back and I don't have it? So, I bumped up my caloric intake to 7,000 calories a day.""Oh my goodness, pain, first and foremost," he said."You don't taste food anymore. You do see stars.
"So, one day I look in the mirror and I'm not liking what I see," he continued."Something was like, 'Let's cut it all off.' So, I cut all my hair off, shaved off my beard, took my shirt off and I was like, 'Oh! There it is. That's what I was working towards.' And it was beautiful at that point. Every single calorie after that made complete sense to me. But when I was watching Khris go through the transformation, it was difficult.
Believe it or not, the dramatic transformation wasn't even the hardest part of the role. Davis said he knew that Foreman, at age 25, was the hurdle that a then-32-year-old Muhammad Ali had to jump over to become a heavyweight champion of the world for the second time, after knocking out Foreman in the eighth round with a flurry of right hooks in a match famously known the"Rumble in the Jungle.
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