Mark Wahlberg consumed steak, rice, baked potatoes, and olive oil to pack on the pounds for Father Stu.
The Fighter star takes on the lead function in the film, which follows the real-life story of boxer-turned-priest Father Stuart Long.
For the part, Wahlberg was needed to put 30 pounds (14 kgs) onto his frame, and he did this within 6 weeks by consuming thousands of calories per day.
“I attempted to do it in a healthy method. It was a lots eggs and a lots pieces of bacon, 2 baked potatoes, a Porterhouse steak, 2 bowls of white rice, and a glass of olive oil,” he informed Entertainment Tonight. “The veryfirst 2 weeks were high proteins. The 2nd 2 weeks were a lot of carbohydrates. The last 2 weeks starches, and then salt, simply to kind of get as puffedup as possible. So not a lot of enjoyable.”
Wahlberg went on to explain how the dietplan was enjoyable at veryfirst however rapidly endedupbeing laborious.
“The veryfirst meal was fantastic, duetothefactthat I hadn’t consumed anything up upuntil that point. But after that, when you’re currently complete and you have to consume onceagain, and at my age, it’s simply not a healthy thing to do, to shot to put on that kind of weight in that quantity of time,” he included.
Father Stu, likewise starring Mel Gibson and Jacki Weaver, is set to hit U.S. movietheaters on 13 April.
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