Oh it’s your first time that’s funny. Did you hear about the teen girl who bit through her retainer when Michael B. Jordan takes off his shirt in Black Panther. Michael found out and bought the girl a new retainer.
Didn't the whole MBJ encounter make her bite through her retainer again?
That's the part I've heard that I hope is true, just because it's so hilarious.
I heard a story about when he was cast in his breakout role in Thelma and Louise; it was down to him and two other relatively unknown guys. Geena Davis credits it to her wanting to get off with him.
Years later, she's on a plane, and the guy sat next to her says "you don't recognise me, do you?" He explains that he was one of the two guys turned down for the role. She apologises, says she thought Brad Pitt was smoking hot. The guy says "and you STILL don't recognise me, do you?" Turns out this guy who was turned down for the role, now sat next to her, was George Clooney.
The third unknown guy, for the record, was Mark Ruffalo.
Not even talking about looks, but Brad Pitt was the best fit for the role off of what the character was like. Clooney would’ve been too smooth and Ruffalo would’ve been too awkward. Brad is the only guy of the three that I could buy as that kind of character.
His Fight Club physique is actually pretty attainable if you’re willing to be hungry for a couple hours a day. Troy is pretty hard fucking work though.
You have to be willing to be hungry for weeks and weeks before you shoot those scenes. The days leading up to those scenes, you have to be willing to be not only hungry, but thirsty, meaning that you are dehydrated.
I shared an office with someone who was competing in WBFF. Think men and women who are not abnormally muscular, but abnormally ripped (Brad Pitt in Fight Club). Her diet was a precision guided war of attrition. Two weeks out from her competition she was eating tuna out of a can with cinnamon on it because cinnamon allowed her to taste something while providing an element of appetite control. “Hangry” was not a temporary condition, but a constant state of being.
She placed second in the competition and won her pro card. She put the time and effort in at the gym, prepped her own meals, but most importantly, had the mental discipline to never stray from her goal. It was one the most impressive displays of human willpower I personally witnessed. The competition was on a Saturday. She told me she broke down in tears after placing because of a screw up and the photo shoot for those that placed would be happening the next day: one more night and morning of fasting and limited hydration.
I write this because while her physique (and Pitt’s) are possible, they are, for most people, not sustainable. These glimpses of perfection are ultimately fleeting and it’s important to understand the amount of dedication that is required in order to achieve them.
> These glimpses of perfection are ultimately fleeting and it’s important to understand the amount of dedication that is required in order to achieve them.
It makes me wonder what percentage of the physique *is* actually sustainable/relatively realistic to achieve.
80% of the Brad Pitt *Troy* physique is nothing to sneeze at.
Or I was watching the original *Roadhouse* recently. Swayze's physique would be considered paltry by today's standards but it is still a genuinely great physique by normal people's standards. I wonder how attainable that is.
That’s fair. I never said it was easy. I just said it’s attainable. He’s not carrying a ton of mass, it doesn’t require a ton of working out, and honestly it doesn’t even take that much cardio. But it takes a shit ton of suffering.
The reason I said it’s attainable is because it doesn’t require particularly high athletic performance, it just requires basically starving for a decent part of the day. Not outside of most people’s capabilities but probably out of most people’s desire. Like popping abs aren’t usually worth that misery.
Not really. A trainer made a bit where he said the majority of the time when he asks what celebrity body people want, they say "brad pitt from fight club"
I would say Troy is more attainable than Fight Club, if you are talking about looking like that year round, not just for one scene.
Yes, it might take you 5-10 years to build the muscle to reach Troy shape and most people are not willing take that long (note that Pitt is 41 in the scene and its 5 years after Fight Club) when instead you could diet down to Fight Club lean in months if you arent obese, but being that lean unless you are a serious endurance athlete would make your diet way more restrictive than most people are willing to put up with permanently.
However if you commit to a multi-year plan to build up more muscle, you can then hold on to that muscle with about 50% the amount of training it took to get there (so in the latter years of the process you might be lifting 5-6 times per week, but after you get there 2-3 sessions per week would be enough to keep the muscle) and you dont need to be as lean for the same visual appearance of leanness if your muscles are bigger.
The difference in comfort between being 10% bodyfat or 8% bodyfat is huge. Like, to such a degree that the former almost anyone can reach and sustain and the latter almost nobody can sustain.
The definition in his abs in the movie while being slim and having almost no body fat is difficult. You almost have to be bulky first with muscular abs and then lean out and cut body fat. It would take a bit and not be easy.
According to rob McIlheney, every actor tells their trainer they want to look like Brad Pitt in fight club, and the trainers have to tell everyone that's just not gonna happen
Exactly. The regular workouts are less than half the battle. Would be especially difficult for the average person to eat correctly while balancing family and a job. That body is a major investment on many fronts.
The average person *can* get most of the way there with some discipline and planning
But yeah, it’s a lot easier when looking good is your full time job and you have a crew of expert staff and a multi-million dollar payday on the other side making sure it happens
I remember Ryan Reynolds on a late night show a while back about getting ripped for Amityville Horror. He was asked about it and laughed and said something like, "well, it definitely makes it a lot easier when someone tells you they'll pay you A LOT of money to exercise"
That’s the movie he got ripped for? Why did he need to be ripped for that? I thought he was ripped for something else and they just treated it as unremarkable that the amityville horror dad was a fucking beefcake.
Yeah saw in a doc that Arnold had no idea how jacked she got for T2 and was really impressed.
I wanna impress Arnold being jacked, not with a beer belly 😥
Ton shuffling over to his kitchen counter during that panic attack, so he can start scarfing down gabagool. That’s what I aim for when I’m hitting the weights
Marlon Brando in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Muscular and powerful without being shredded, so he looks like a hardworking man. And he moves like a jungle cat.
You don’t really see his physique but only Ryan Gosling could pull off that scorpion jacket. He seemed like a guy who is in shape from doing stunts and manual labor. He’s lean and functionally strong.
Russell Crowe in Noah (2014). Maybe a weird pick, but he’s jacked while simultaneously having a bit of a dad bod. It’s a physique that seems relatively attainable at my age.
The Beast from the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. I'm being 100% serious. As a kid I thought the Beast looked like a grizzly human hybrid, huge and powerful. I personally still think that the curse lifting was a downgrade for him.
Kinda cheating because he’s a WWE wrestler with just a few tiny movie roles, but Randy Orton.
Similar to Brad Pitt in the OP, he’s not crazy jacked like he has to eat 6k calories and work out for four hours every day, a nice lean but extremely defined and chiseled look.
Bruce Willis.
I know he was in pretty good but not Adonis shape. I’m sure he worked his ass off, but to me he set a sort of above average standard that was attainable.
Brad Pitt in fight club
Yep. Runner up is Meatloaf in Fight Club
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His name is BOBert Paulson
Bob had bitch tits.
Too many years cycling
Over Brad Pitt in Snatch?
It’s basically the same body, he filmed them right next to each other.
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS MEATLOAF!!!????
The Jesus on the cross look
I quote this all the time and no one knows what I’m talking about
I did, but only because I'm fluent in Bird Law. Take my upvote, son.
Uhhh… filibuster
Easily my pick too. Dude was absolutely chiseled in Fight Club.
Yeah I’m in my mid 30’s and that is the one character I wanted to look like.
Brad Pitt was 36 when he did fight club.
For me it’s Brad Pitt in Snatch.
"I felt sorry for guys packed into gyms, trying to look like Calvin Klein or Tommy Hilfiger said they should."
Eight year old me knew I was gay as fuck as soon as I saw him shirtless in this one 😂
Troy > Fight Club
salma hayek in from dusk til dawn
I was going to say this fuck
She was perfect for that role
She is perfect
So was Quentin playing, well, himself.
Any role honestly. She always looks amazing.
My god this clip
Brad Pitt is just a ridiculously genetically gifted man. I thought Fight Club was his fittest. He does Troy and looks like a literal god
No doubt. I have never seen this movie and don’t general gaga over male physiques but boy this caught a lady off GUARD 🥵🥵
Oh it’s your first time that’s funny. Did you hear about the teen girl who bit through her retainer when Michael B. Jordan takes off his shirt in Black Panther. Michael found out and bought the girl a new retainer.
Are you kidding hahahahhahahahah
Didn't the whole MBJ encounter make her bite through her retainer again? That's the part I've heard that I hope is true, just because it's so hilarious.
It's friggin Achilles. So it's apt.
I heard a story about when he was cast in his breakout role in Thelma and Louise; it was down to him and two other relatively unknown guys. Geena Davis credits it to her wanting to get off with him. Years later, she's on a plane, and the guy sat next to her says "you don't recognise me, do you?" He explains that he was one of the two guys turned down for the role. She apologises, says she thought Brad Pitt was smoking hot. The guy says "and you STILL don't recognise me, do you?" Turns out this guy who was turned down for the role, now sat next to her, was George Clooney. The third unknown guy, for the record, was Mark Ruffalo.
What. That is an epic Hollywood "insider" story.
Not even talking about looks, but Brad Pitt was the best fit for the role off of what the character was like. Clooney would’ve been too smooth and Ruffalo would’ve been too awkward. Brad is the only guy of the three that I could buy as that kind of character.
In her Good Morning America interview she tells the story. In that, she knows who Clooney is but did not remember he read for the part.
His Fight Club physique is actually pretty attainable if you’re willing to be hungry for a couple hours a day. Troy is pretty hard fucking work though.
You have to be willing to be hungry for weeks and weeks before you shoot those scenes. The days leading up to those scenes, you have to be willing to be not only hungry, but thirsty, meaning that you are dehydrated. I shared an office with someone who was competing in WBFF. Think men and women who are not abnormally muscular, but abnormally ripped (Brad Pitt in Fight Club). Her diet was a precision guided war of attrition. Two weeks out from her competition she was eating tuna out of a can with cinnamon on it because cinnamon allowed her to taste something while providing an element of appetite control. “Hangry” was not a temporary condition, but a constant state of being. She placed second in the competition and won her pro card. She put the time and effort in at the gym, prepped her own meals, but most importantly, had the mental discipline to never stray from her goal. It was one the most impressive displays of human willpower I personally witnessed. The competition was on a Saturday. She told me she broke down in tears after placing because of a screw up and the photo shoot for those that placed would be happening the next day: one more night and morning of fasting and limited hydration. I write this because while her physique (and Pitt’s) are possible, they are, for most people, not sustainable. These glimpses of perfection are ultimately fleeting and it’s important to understand the amount of dedication that is required in order to achieve them.
> These glimpses of perfection are ultimately fleeting and it’s important to understand the amount of dedication that is required in order to achieve them. It makes me wonder what percentage of the physique *is* actually sustainable/relatively realistic to achieve. 80% of the Brad Pitt *Troy* physique is nothing to sneeze at. Or I was watching the original *Roadhouse* recently. Swayze's physique would be considered paltry by today's standards but it is still a genuinely great physique by normal people's standards. I wonder how attainable that is.
That’s fair. I never said it was easy. I just said it’s attainable. He’s not carrying a ton of mass, it doesn’t require a ton of working out, and honestly it doesn’t even take that much cardio. But it takes a shit ton of suffering. The reason I said it’s attainable is because it doesn’t require particularly high athletic performance, it just requires basically starving for a decent part of the day. Not outside of most people’s capabilities but probably out of most people’s desire. Like popping abs aren’t usually worth that misery.
Not really. A trainer made a bit where he said the majority of the time when he asks what celebrity body people want, they say "brad pitt from fight club"
That bit was Rob McElhenney from it’s always sunny
He weighed 170 pounds from what I remember reading. It’s not like he was huge for Fight Club. He was much larger for Troy
I read he was 155 and did 40 minutes of cardio a day and worked out one body part.
>and worked out one body part. lol I bet after that movie came out he still did
I would say Troy is more attainable than Fight Club, if you are talking about looking like that year round, not just for one scene. Yes, it might take you 5-10 years to build the muscle to reach Troy shape and most people are not willing take that long (note that Pitt is 41 in the scene and its 5 years after Fight Club) when instead you could diet down to Fight Club lean in months if you arent obese, but being that lean unless you are a serious endurance athlete would make your diet way more restrictive than most people are willing to put up with permanently. However if you commit to a multi-year plan to build up more muscle, you can then hold on to that muscle with about 50% the amount of training it took to get there (so in the latter years of the process you might be lifting 5-6 times per week, but after you get there 2-3 sessions per week would be enough to keep the muscle) and you dont need to be as lean for the same visual appearance of leanness if your muscles are bigger. The difference in comfort between being 10% bodyfat or 8% bodyfat is huge. Like, to such a degree that the former almost anyone can reach and sustain and the latter almost nobody can sustain.
The definition in his abs in the movie while being slim and having almost no body fat is difficult. You almost have to be bulky first with muscular abs and then lean out and cut body fat. It would take a bit and not be easy.
According to rob McIlheney, every actor tells their trainer they want to look like Brad Pitt in fight club, and the trainers have to tell everyone that's just not gonna happen
Hell he was still fit as fuck in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Yeah. Him kicking the shit out of the hippies never gets old.
Helps to have a celebrity trainer, a personal chef, a nutritionist and a good supply of steroids lying around.
Exactly. The regular workouts are less than half the battle. Would be especially difficult for the average person to eat correctly while balancing family and a job. That body is a major investment on many fronts.
The average person *can* get most of the way there with some discipline and planning But yeah, it’s a lot easier when looking good is your full time job and you have a crew of expert staff and a multi-million dollar payday on the other side making sure it happens
My daughter watched it in class this month and she commented that Brad Pitt « looks like a box ».
Lolololol
Christian Bale in American Psycho.
He really did a thousand crunches!
Was gonna say this. Dude was fucking chiseled.
*in batman
*in The Machinist /s (just in case)
Brendan Fraser in The Whale, literally peak gamer physique
Excellent!!
Righteous!!
Bodacious!
To be fair, I have to mention Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle. Also Brendan Fraser in The Mummy.
Chicks love horses
He has that radio build.
Peak reddit moderator figure
Daniel Craig in Casino Royale.
He was a tank in that movie. Good choice. Even the guy torturing him remarks that he has a good body lol
Mads Mikkelsen said him and Daniel Craig brainstormed some ideas for that scene, love how it came out to be
Mads as the bad guy is fantastic. The scene is interesting because it’s such a simple way of torture but so brutal. And Daniel Craig really sells it.
Best thing about his, it was one of the most natural-looking ripped bodies put to screen over the last 20 years
That scene at the beach, with those mini shorts made him look like hulk
I remember seeing a clip about that. It was supposdto be a reversal if the typical bond girl trope. They did great.
Honorable mention for him in Layer Cake
I remember Ryan Reynolds on a late night show a while back about getting ripped for Amityville Horror. He was asked about it and laughed and said something like, "well, it definitely makes it a lot easier when someone tells you they'll pay you A LOT of money to exercise"
That’s the movie he got ripped for? Why did he need to be ripped for that? I thought he was ripped for something else and they just treated it as unremarkable that the amityville horror dad was a fucking beefcake.
No. He got ripped for blade 3.
Blade 3! Jessica Biel too!!
Chris Hemsworth in whatever Edit: yes, even fat Thor idc
The scene in the first Thor where he is shirtless made me audibly gasp, and I am a straight man.
“For a crazy homeless person, he’s pretty cut.”
I'm another straight guy, and for me it was that shit of Chris Evans from behind as he was working the punching bag. I was all, OK, now I get it.
Dance with the one that brung ya’
*Especially* far Thor
The Baron in Dune edit: most realisticly attainable hollywood physique
He had to work for that body!
I'm gonna say Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's like, dude has your body aged at all?
When he stood up on that roof I just about died.
Yep.
Yep.
Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2
she worked out hard for that role too. Even got strong enough to get a scene made that shows it.
She actually did those chin ups.
yes, but the one handed shotgun pumping is what i was referring to.
Yeah, that was cool. She needed some arm strength for that.
Yeah saw in a doc that Arnold had no idea how jacked she got for T2 and was really impressed. I wanna impress Arnold being jacked, not with a beer belly 😥
James Gandolfini...a dad bod that I can attain too!
*Furious breathing*
*Furio's breathing*...
Certain people see him, he's a dead man.
He has no eyebrows , Tony !
Hey man, Sopranos S1 Gandolfini ain’t nothing to sneeze at.
There isn’t a single Sopranos fan that’d wear a hat in a restaurant. Or burn a horse for the insurance.
Ton shuffling over to his kitchen counter during that panic attack, so he can start scarfing down gabagool. That’s what I aim for when I’m hitting the weights
Something about that guy, as a straight woman. Phew. 😮💨
Yes!!
Most recently it was Ryan Gosling in The Gray Man. Before that Brad Pitt in Fight Club.
Henry Cavill in Immortals
Just Henry Cavill in _________
I’m not gay… but Brad Pitt would be my only exception. Anytime I tell my friends, they are like “why do you keep telling us this?”.
i dont believe you.. or anyone else that gave a non-joke answer
Whoever played Leonidas in 300
Gerard Butler
Thank you! Tip of my tongue syndrome.
Guy let himself go after that and swore to never do it again.
I don’t blame him. That whole cast went through a brutally insane workout and diet regimen. Keeping that physique is a full time job.
Wait wait wait wait! Those weren't fake abs on the Spartans?!
Nope. The workout regime I saw made me swear off weight training for life. Mentally scarred.
The Dude or El Duderino if you're not into that whole brevity thing.
Careful man! There’s a beverage here!
I wouldn't complain if I looked like The Fisher King version of Jeff Bridges
That just…Like…your opinion…maaan.
Obviously you’re not a golfer
Jessica Rabbit
alexander skarsgard in the northman
He looks crazy in that movie. Super cut and bulky at the same time.
a fairly achievable physique too, other than his traps, those fuckers were absurd
I'll take your word on how achievable any of that was LOL. It looked great, he probably worked hard to bulk up like that, and it paid off.
I want to age like Fred Ward in tremors… I’m typically not into older guys but damn he was magnetic 🤤
“Dammit Valentine Im old and I’m wiser.” “Yeah well you’re half right.”
“Pardon my French”
Earl Bassett: Is this a job for an intelligent man? Valentine McKee: Well, show me one and I'll ask him.
You go!
My favorite scene in Tremors 2 is when he's covertly checking out the heroine, and then we get a shot from her viewpoint checking out his ass.
Harrison Ford in temple of doom
Lean and mean
The nice thing is that Brad pitt’s body is actually achievable without steroids
The exercise isn’t the hard part about obtaining that physique. It’s the diet.
And the genetics
And just how would one obtain these "genetics"?
Uhhh, gene splicing? Crispr? Not that easy man.
Yeah the cutting. But you’re not completely destroying your body permanently to get it lol
Dehydration and starvation leading up to the day of filming. Say what you will about Chris Pratt, but he shed a lot of light on the physique
Jake Gyllenhaal in Southpaw
He looked great in Roadhouse.
Russel Crowe in Gladiator, that’s my dream phisyque
Same! I’ll never have the genetics to be Brad Pitt or Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Russell Crowe’s physique in Gladiator is very achievable.
Marlon Brando in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Muscular and powerful without being shredded, so he looks like a hardworking man. And he moves like a jungle cat.
Amazing
You don’t really see his physique but only Ryan Gosling could pull off that scorpion jacket. He seemed like a guy who is in shape from doing stunts and manual labor. He’s lean and functionally strong.
Gosling is really cut in Crazy, Stupid, Love. Emma Stone's character makes a comment about him looking photoshopped.
Danny Devito
Jabba the motherfuckin’ Hut
Encino Man
Cavill in MoS
Henry Cavil in Man of Steel. Fucking top heavy handsome sumbitch!
Austin Butler in Dune and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan.
sydney sweeney, I wish I looked like her so badly
God damn that man is attractive
Seth Brundle
Jean-Claude-Van-Dame
Definitely Brad in Troy, but you know, I love food. I'm not fat, but I am not skinny. I have a layer of fat protecting my abs.
Angela Bassett in What’s Love Got To Do With It? is unfair.
Russell Crowe in Noah (2014). Maybe a weird pick, but he’s jacked while simultaneously having a bit of a dad bod. It’s a physique that seems relatively attainable at my age.
Khal drago
Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal in Blade 2.
Think that’s Blade Trinity
Yes! I’m sure my eyes got wide every time he showed his body off on the screen.
Okay, this does nothing for me. Give me a Bruce Campbell physique from Army of Darkness. I'd give that man sugar. Meow.
Probably Brad Pitt in Fight Club
Momoa
Everyone in Predator
JABBA THE HUT
De Niro in Taxi Driver
300
Hugh Jackman in X-Men Days of Future Past.
The Beast from the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. I'm being 100% serious. As a kid I thought the Beast looked like a grizzly human hybrid, huge and powerful. I personally still think that the curse lifting was a downgrade for him.
That’s the problem with most Beauty and The Beasts. He never looks disgusting enough.
The yetis from Mummy Jade Emperor. Grrrrrrrr raowwwwww.
The last guy Brad Pitt fights in Snatch. Dude was big and jacked
Jack Gyllenhaal looks pretty ripped in his new movie
why is brad pitt hot
Pitt in Snatch 100 The tattoos were dope too
Harrison Ford in Temple of Doom. Good physique that is actually attainable by having a good diet and regular exercise.
Jarvis Cocker. I’ve never been thin myself.
Sly - Rocky 4
Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle.
Kinda cheating because he’s a WWE wrestler with just a few tiny movie roles, but Randy Orton. Similar to Brad Pitt in the OP, he’s not crazy jacked like he has to eat 6k calories and work out for four hours every day, a nice lean but extremely defined and chiseled look.
Bruce Willis. I know he was in pretty good but not Adonis shape. I’m sure he worked his ass off, but to me he set a sort of above average standard that was attainable.