Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg are spending a late night on set!
11.04.2022 - 14:57 / foxnews.com
Drinking olive oil packs a major punch. Mark Wahlberg admitted that gaining 30 pounds for his new film, "Father Stu," took a toll on him.The actor stars as Stuart Long, an amateur boxer-turned-priest who suffers from a degenerative and incurable muscular disorder. The story is based on the real-life Father Stuart Long, who leaned on faith during tough times.
Long passed away in 2014 at age 50. Wahlberg also serves as a producer for the biopic. "I put on 30 pounds and went from being a guy who was in fighting shape to a guy who was wheelchair-bound, suffering from a rare muscular generative disease," the 50-year-old recently told Entertainment Weekly.
Mark Wahlberg gives an interview during a visit to All Saints Chapel at Carroll College on behalf of the film "Father Stu" on April 4, 2022, in Helena, Montana. (Mat Hayward/Getty Images for Sony Pictures) "I was just turning 50 by the time we finished the movie, and I was eating 11,000 calories a day," he shared. "That drastic weight really took a toll on me over the course of the last seven, eight months." Wahlberg, who chronicles his daily no-nonsense workouts, described how he put on the pounds for the role.
"I tried to do it in a healthy way," the star explained to the outlet. "It was a dozen eggs and a dozen pieces of bacon, two baked potatoes, a Porterhouse steak, two bowls of white rice, and a glass of olive oil.The first two weeks were high proteins.The second two weeks were a lot of carbs.The last two weeks starches and then sodium, just to kind of get as bloated as possible." Previously, Wahlberg told Jimmy Fallon that it was exhausting to gain weight. "Even when you’re full, I would wake up after a meal and have another meal," he recalled.
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Mark Wahlberg says gaining weight "took a toll" on him. The Hollywood actor had to pile on the pounds for his role in 'Father Stu' and he admits having to gain 30 pounds was very difficult for him, and he ate 11,000 calories a day to ensure he could put the weight on. He said: "I put on 30 pounds and went from being a guy who was in fighting shape to a guy who was wheelchair-bound, suffering from a rare muscular degenerative disease.
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