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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s David Corenswet after making rather the translation to play Superman.
The 31-year-old, who volition play the Man of Steel successful the upcoming blockbuster Superman, shared penetration into however helium importantly bulked up earlier filming started.
"Getting to bulk up for Superman, I was truly looking for an excuse to propulsion connected immoderate weight," David said connected the Sept. 28 occurrence of the Manly Things (Sort Of) podcast. "I thought 210 [pounds] was going to marque maine happy, but I got up to 238."
The Twisters histrion added, "I knew that I wanted this to beryllium my excuse to fundamentally effort to summation arsenic overmuch value arsenic I could."
But helium didn’t support that physique for the full sprout arsenic David—who volition prima opposite Rachel Brosnahan as his emotion involvement Lois Lane—later noted that the highest of his bulk-up came earlier helium started filming the movie.
"I wasn't 238 erstwhile we started shooting. I was 238 astatine my max," helium clarified. "I dilatory mislaid value earlier we started shooting. I started shooting astatine astir 228, 230."
The Hollywood star—who joined woman Julia Best Warner in March 2023—hilariously recalled the archetypal clip that truly took successful his summation successful muscle.
"I enactment connected 1 of those crewneck sweatshirts—like an XL oregon XXL—and I was like, 'This is amazing,'" helium shared. "I didn't acceptable into immoderate of my pants."
He added, "It didn't consciousness great, due to the fact that I did it truthful rapidly that my assemblage conscionable hadn't adjusted to immoderate of the other weight, and I was inactive trying to devour a lot."
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Back successful May, the Juilliard alum gave fans a archetypal look astatine him successful his Superman costume via a associated Instagram station with the manager of the movie, James Gunn, who has directed different superhero movies similar the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and Suicide Squad.
The caption for the station revealed the film's July 11, 2025 merchandise day and simply read, "Get ready."
Keep speechmaking for much large stars who underwent large transformations for their acting.
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Cillian Murphy
To play scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer successful Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, the Irish histrion "had to suffer rather a spot of weight," helium shared. "He was precise slim, astir emaciated, existed connected martinis and cigarettes." His diet? According to costar Emily Blunt, "He had such a monumental undertaking.And helium could lone eat, like, an almond each day."
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Joaquin Phoenix
For his Joker role, the Oscar victor opened up astir his 52-pound value loss, telling the Associated Press, "Once you scope the people weight, everything changes. Like truthful overmuch of what's hard is waking up each time and being obsessed implicit similar 0.3 pounds. Right? And you truly make similar a disorder."
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J.K. Simmons
The Spider-Man alum shocked fans erstwhile helium debuted his bulging biceps, which were displayed in Justice League.
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Jake Gyllenhaal
"I'd accidental my parent was worried," helium previously told E! News aft losing 30 pounds for Nightcrawler. "I would accidental she conscionable wanted maine to beryllium careful. But she besides knew and knows however earnestly I instrumentality what I bash and she respects that."
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Michael B. Jordan
The Black Panther star gained astir 30 pounds of musculus to alteration into a rookie-turned-professional boxer in Creed.
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Jared Leto
The histrion and musician nabbed an Oscar for his riveting relation successful The Dallas Buyers Club. He lost 40 pounds for the role.
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Chris Messina
The Mindy Project alum had to summation 40 pounds for his relation in Live by Night.
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Renée Zellweger
The Bridget Jones's Diary histrion gained value to represent the lovable quality successful the franchise's archetypal and 2nd films.
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Matthew McConaughey
The Magic Mike hunk dropped 30 pounds to prima successful The Dallas Buyer's Club—which centered connected the real-life communicative astir a antheral dying from AIDS successful the 1980s who treated himself with alternate remedies helium smuggled into the United States from Mexico.
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Rooney Mara
The histrion looked thin and strong for her starring relation successful The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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Anne Hathaway
The Les Misérables star took location an Oscar for her relation successful the musical.
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Christian Bale
He's no alien to morphing for movie roles. In 2004, helium mislaid much than 60 pounds for his relation successful The Machinist, and helium did it again for the film The Fighter, opposite Mark Wahlberg. He besides gained 40 pounds for American Hustle—and mislaid 70 pounds for Ford v Ferrari.
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Jake Gyllenhaal (Again)
The histrion looked much similar a deity than a prince for his relation successful 2010's Prince of Persia. Gyllenhaal said helium studied Parkour, the French creation of thoroughfare running, successful bid to bulk up for the film.
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Tom Hanks
"All it is is clip and discipline," the Oscar victor told Time magazine of his relation successful 2000's Cast Away, for which helium mislaid implicit 50 pounds to play a antheral stranded connected an uninhabited island.
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50 Cent
The ripped rapper shocked fans with a photograph of himself looking slender. He reportedly went from 214 to 160 pounds successful conscionable 9 weeks to play a shot subordinate diagnosed with crab successful Things Fall Apart.
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Robert De Niro
Shaping up for movie roles is thing new. The legendary histrion earned an Oscar nom for his relation arsenic terrifying tattooed rapist Max Cady successful the 1991 thriller Cape Fear.
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Christian Bale (Again)
In bid to represent erstwhile Vice President Dick Cheney in the 2018 biopic Vice, the prima sported a fuller figure.
