“All of the chicken imaginable.”
Paul Mescal’s buffed up look in the newGladiator IIbegan with him stripping down.
Mescal said Wednesday in an appearance onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Paul Mescal buffed up for his ‘Gladiator II’ role.Cuba Scott/Paramount Pictures
“I’m like, ‘Yeah, that sounds good.’
And he goes, ‘Into your underwear, hey.’
And I’m like, ‘This is how this works.
See his interview in the video below:
Mescal said there was then intense silence.
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The 28-year-old actor said his diet was “all of the chicken imaginable.”
The fights aren’t like slick swordplay,” he said.
“you’ve got the option to feel towards the end what Lucius says it’s about survival.
It’s like your body’s going to accumulate all this punishment.
And it’s about holding onto that as the film progresses.
So I’m proud of them all in different ways.”
Mescal noted on Colbert that he’s no longer in the same place physically as he was during filming.
“Oh, how the mighty have fallen,” he joked.
“This is not what it’s like here at the moment, unfortunately.”
