Glen Powell wanted to be “a bit of a weapon” for his starring role in The Running Man reboot.
Glen Powell stars in the new Running Man movie
The 36-year-old actor takes on the lead role in a new adaptation of Stephen King’s book – which was previously a 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger – and he’s now revealed he threw himself into training because he wanted to be fit and muscular for the role.
He told GQ magazine: “I knew that based on the Stephen King book, [my character] Ben Richards was a tank.
“I was like: ‘Okay, I got to be a bit of a weapon.’ And so that’s why I trained the way I trained on this. I put on a lot of muscle. A lot of it was functional.
“A lot of it was so I could absorb hits. But a lot of it was also authentically for an audience … I went from going: ‘Oh, I’m an actor on a movie’ to ‘I’m a high-performance athlete’.”
He went onto reveal he turned to his Top Gun: Maverick co-star Tom Cruise for advice, adding: “I’m just very lucky that I have someone like Tom who I could literally go: ‘Hey, what do I do to survive something?'”
Schwarzenegger previously played Ben Richards in the 1987 thriller based on author King’s 1982 novel of the same name and the actor previously admitted the new version could be better than the original.
Speaking to CBR, The Terminator star said: “I mean, I love the idea that they’re doing a sequel to Running Man, or a remake.
“I don’t know what it’s going to be, but I mean, because I always felt when we did, Running Man was one of the movies that it did,…
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