The lingering shirtless scene has become a trademark in Marvel movies and TV shows. These actors’ solid, muscular bodies are adored, admired, and envied by numerous audiences. Have you ever tried to build six-packed abs or put on some muscles? You know how hard body transformation is after several weeks of intensive workouts.
Those Hollywood men endured the whole remodeling process and appeared on the big screen with everybody’s admiration. Some even were not supposed to be able to look that attractive. Before entering MCU, they were skinny or overweight. After getting hired, they look so different.
So, if you wonder what it would take to be an MCU hero (or villain), we are excited to tell you about the surprising appearance-upgrading procedures that Marvel stars went through. Here we go!
#1. Kumail Nanjiani – Kingo
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Pakistani-American actor Kumail Nanjiani has turned heads on social media after revealing his mind-blowing body transformation online. It took him six years of rigorous training to build this wowing shirtless portrait.
#2. Mark Ruffalo – Hulk
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Although Ruffalo’s alter ego the Hulk is a fully CGI creation, he’s bulked up to play Bruce Banner, crediting yoga and a strict diet for his new buff body.
#3. Robert Downey Jr. – Iron Man
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The Iron Man star trains every day using Bruce Lee’s famous Wing Chun technique and has done for over a decade now. He packed on 25 lbs of muscle to play Tony Stark through months of hard work, consuming around 5000 calories a day.
#4. Andrew Garfield – Amazing Spider-Man
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The naturally lean Brit worked out every day for three months while consuming 4000-5000 daily calories to pack on muscle for both Amazing Spider-Man movies.
#5. Paul Rudd – Ant-Man
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To get six-packed abs for the role, the actor had to follow a schedule with specific foods at specific times strictly besides boozing at the gym. Of course, there was no sugar, no carbs, and no funs at all.
#6. Anthony Mackie – The Falcon
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The Falcon actor says the fear of looking puny next to Captain America inspired him to get in shape for The Winter Soldier. He worked out twice a day to achieve his target weight of 230 lbs.
#7. Aaron Taylor-Johnson – Pietro Maximoff
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After playing the skinny hero wannabe Dave Lizewski in the movie Kick-A**, Aaron packed on 15lbs for the sequel, but his transformation for Marvel’s ‘Age of Ultron’ makes him look twice the size he used to be.
#8. Hugh Jackman – Wolverine
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Hugh was 31 when he played Wolverine for the first time, but he admits he didn’t prepare for ‘X-Men’ with the same enthusiasm he does now. He trained for 5 months solid to beef up for ‘The Wolverine’ after ‘Les Miserables’ and he’s at it again for ‘Wolverine 3′.
#9. Chris Evans – Captain America
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Evans was already in great shape before he played Captain America, but he admits his training regime for The First Avenger was punishing. It was so brutal that it made him vomit.
#10. Chris Pratt – Star-Lord
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In order to play Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Pratt had to trade 60 lbs of fat for pure muscle. His incredible transformation came through strict diet change, intense exercise, and some hardcore dedication.
#11. Chris Hemsworth – Thor
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Of all the Marvel transformations, Hemsworth’s is perhaps the most impressive. After shaping up for ‘Avengers’, he had to drop 30 lbs in 4 months to play James Hunt in ‘Rush’, only to pack it all back on again for ‘Thor 2’ just months later.
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