BUTLER LEFT CRIPPLED BY MOVIE TRAINING

BUTLER LEFT CRIPPLED BY MOVIE TRAINING

Contactmusic.com

19/11/2006 23:25

Scottish actor GERARD BUTLER suffered for his art shooting new movie 300 because the intense work-outs he undertook to buff up his body later left him in torture. The hunk, who plays KING LEONIDAS in the historical epic, ignored the advice of his trainer to keep up his gym regime after filming wrapped and suffered the consequences. He explains, "It's true, I bust my gut for this role. One of my main ambitions was to have the stunt guys say, 'You are really f**kin' tough!' "I wanted to be that guy, where stunt guys are going, 'S**t, look at him.' I was training for over six hours a day. I trained with my stunt double whenever I was on set and I pumped (weights) on set constantly. "I started training four or five months before the movie started but I struggled a lot after this because I didn't go back to a gym and every part of my body gave out. "I was literally walking around like a cripple."


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