15 Actors That Went From Skinny To Ripped For Their Roles
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5. Ryan Reynolds (Blade: Trinity)
When the relatively unknown actor was cast as a vampire hunter in the third film in the Blade trilogy, he knew he needed to do something to grab the audience’s attention — after all, he was starring alongside Jessica Biel.
So the Vancouver native began to train like a madman, doing everything from intense 3-hour daily workouts to eating eight to 10 small meals a day.
The result? Countless magazine covers, the leading role in the “Green Lantern” flick and a marriage to Blake Lively. If that’s not motivation to get into the gym, we don’t know what is.
