Paul Mescal: Coca-cola lover.
so exquisitely that the filmmakers made him go shirtless for as many scenes as possible, according to his personal trainer Tim Blakeley.
Denzel Washington says ‘Gladiator II’ cut his ‘full on’ gay ‘kiss of death’: ‘I think they got chicken’The fitness pro has worked with — and worked out — a bevy of Hollywood bodies, including John Boyega, Luke Evans, Thandiwe Newton and Taron Egerton, to name a few.The actor worked out five to six days a week, focusing on a different body part each session. But Mescal didn’t have to spend hours upon hours pumping iron each day.
Mescal went into the training process with experience as an athlete, having played Gaelic football at quite a high level, and crucially had the necessary mindset to get results.“With Paul, there’s no wasted sets. With Paul we’d literally do a couple of warm up sets, then we do a feeder set just to check his form, two working sets to failure or near failure and then we move on, next exercise,” Blakeley said.
Mescal did push back at times on what his training would consist of — though not with much success. “He wanted to know what we were doing, I’d tell him what we were doing, and we might have a slight conversation about that, but in the end, I always won,” Blakeley said.“Because he turned up looking so good, a lot of his scenes, they were like, ‘Right, shirt off,’” Blakeley recalled.
“But because he had his shirt off so much, you just have to keep your physique looking as tight as possible the whole time,” Blakeley said.— combined with the scorching heat the actors faced filming in Malta and Morrocco meant that hacks like water-cutting were out of the question.“Because he likes Coke, if we had a scene that was controllable, I’d just let him have some Coke before just to get some glycogen in the muscles so you can get a bit of a pump on,” the strength coach explained.
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