Dave Bautista in Knock at the Cabin, a film for which he gained an extreme amount of weight (Image: Universal)
In the film world, you sometimes have to lose or gain weight extremely. Dave Bautista can now talk about that. He lost 30 kilos in no time. “But I am still a big man at 1.93 meters and almost 110 kilos,” says the actor.
Dave Bautista joins an honorable list of names like Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey and Chris Hemsworth. They all lost an extreme amount of weight in a short period of time in their own way.
Losing Weight with Dave Bautista
Dave Bautista has now responded to people who were concerned about his weight. In an interview with Canadian YouTuber Chris Van Vliet, the actor says that he sometimes hears that he has become thin. “I’ve even seen people online who are concerned about my health,” says Bautista.
The actor explains that he wanted to lose weight because he had to be fit for his role in Knock at the Cabin M. Night Shyamalan had just gained weight. “I was huge, like 300 pounds. I gained a lot of weight really fast and it took a really long time to lose it,” Bautista said. The 55-year-old actor says he plans to lose even more weight. He noticed that the more he lost, the better he felt. “And I also noticed that when I lost weight, I looked better on film. I looked better next to other actors,” the actor said.
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The former wrestler, known for his roles in Guardians of the Galaxy in Dunesaid he finds the reactions strange. “People have seen me as a lot heavier over the years. And now they think I’m anorexic,” Bautista said. “But I’m still a big man at 6’3” and 250 pounds. Next to the average actor, I look like a gorilla,” the actor continued.
Het Geheim: Jiujitsu
For Dave Bautista, training less hard also means eating less, which already reduces his size. But his big secret to losing weight is jiu-jitsu, a Japanese self-defense art that allows you to control or disable an attacker in seconds.
“I was struggling to lose weight, so I took my personal trainer and buddy Jason Manly to Budapest while I Dune “I was filming,” Bautista revealed in a previous interview. “We were doing nothing but jiu-jitsu for hours on end. That’s when I started losing weight and I thought, I’m just going to keep doing it so I can get my brown belt.”
