Current Events > Actor Jacob Elordi: I hated working out and being objectified

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Actor Jacob Elordi from hit show Euphoria had this to say.

http://www.justjared.com/2020/07/30/jacob-elordi-reveals-what-bothered-him-about-the-first-kissing-booth-movie/

Jacob Elordi is getting candid about his experience after filming the first The Kissing Boothmovie.

In an interview with Mens Health, the 23-year-old actor admitted that he didnt like the attention surrounding his body.

At the time, I was super young and got thrown into a world where everyone wanted to talk about my body it really fking bothered me, Jacob said. I dont identify with that whatsoever. I was trying to prove myself and be known as an actor. It was so much working out and I hated every second of it.

I trained extensively for the first film, because it said it in the script, he remembers. I was so terribly nervous that I wouldnt be what the script wanted me to be.

Jacob added that his fitness regimen for the first film had him in the gym seven days a week, twice a day. He also admitted that he didnt train for the TKB2 at all.

Good on him for speaking up about the unhealthy and unrealistic standards that Hollywood sets.

Makes sense. Both male and female performers want to hone their craft and become better actors but they're forced to spend 80% of their time in the gym preparing for one shirtless scene.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Makes sense. Both male and female performers want to hone their craft and become better actors but they're forced to spend 80% of their time in the gym preparing for one shirtless scene.

How else are they going to be relatable characters if they arent absolutely shredded like the average american?

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According to Men's Health, Elordi didn't even train for "The Kissing Booth 2." Nowadays, he does a mix of different fitness techniques for his body's well-being and for his mental health.

"['The Kissing Booth'] was all about sculpting and making sure I had this figure that I thought the character needed," Elordi told the publication. "Now, it's more functional. I wanted to be a blank canvas and be more concerned with my health. I wanted to be able to walk and run with my grandkids when I'm eighty-something, you know? It's more about being functional as opposed to actual aesthetics."

draw abs on them like 300

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I've heard that a lot of shirtless scenes for guys involve diets of almost nothing and severe dehydration. There's an account of one of Hugh Jackman's shirtless scenes as Wolverine, and apparently he could only shoot within the span of an hour before he felt like passing out.

You've also got steroid abuse changing the male standard for attractiveness. Look at Hugh Jackman in X-Men 1 vs The Wolverine, his veins are popping out of his neck and his chest and shoulders are completely different. Look at Sylvester Stallone in the first Rocky movie vs the later Rambo sequels, or the Expendables. It's not natural.

Bodies like this are unattainable outside of starving yourself of food and water to dangerous levels, and to maintain a jacked look like that over the course of a career, more often than not, guys end up turning to steroids. The reason we don't talk about it as much is because we put dudes like Stallone on a pedestal.

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Same thing happened with the singer D'Angelo

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MrMallard posted...

I've heard that a lot of shirtless scenes for guys involve diets of almost nothing and severe dehydration. There's an account of one of Hugh Jackman's shirtless scenes as Wolverine, and apparently he could only shoot within the span of an hour before he felt like passing out.

You've also got steroid abuse changing the male standard for attractiveness. Look at Hugh Jackman in X-Men 1 vs The Wolverine, his veins are popping out of his neck and his chest and shoulders are completely different. Look at Sylvester Stallone in the first Rocky movie vs the later Rambo sequels, or the Expendables. It's not natural.

Bodies like this are unattainable outside of starving yourself of food and water to dangerous levels, and to maintain a jacked look like that over the course of a career, more often than not, guys end up turning to steroids. The reason we don't talk about it as much is because we put dudes like Stallone on a pedestal.

eston posted...

Same thing happened with the singer D'Angelo

Terrible

Lucas Till (dude played the X-Men movies) was body shamed, verbally abused, and became suicidal: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/lucas-till-suicidal-body-shaming-macgyver-peter-lenkov-cbs-a9629651.html

Thats fucking awful.

Im glad more guys are speaking up about this.

A lot of the older male actors kept their mouths shut. The younger male actors are breaking the mold.

I mean has he never checked a woman out before or something? Or seen any guy who is really in shape and seen one who is out of shape and thought the guy with muscles looked better? Unless he came from Amish country then what did he think was going to happen when he got completely ripped? Was he really expecting no one to look or say anything?

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Gamerguymass posted...

Was he really expecting no one to look or say anything?

I think what hes saying is that there was too much emphasis to look a certain way. It was unrealistic and healthy. Like there were tons of scenes that required him to be shirtless and show off his body. It felt exploitative.

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ZannoL posted...

I think what hes saying is that there was too much emphasis to look a certain way. It was unrealistic and healthy. Like there were tons of scenes that required him to be shirtless and show off his body. It felt exploitative.

I hope he has never looked at porn, otherwise he is just a massive hypocrite.

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