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KJ Apa is infamous for all of the shirtless scenes he movies in Riverdale.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, KJ stated, “I mean, look for sure it can be a little tiring just because it’s so demanding to stay in shape for 10 months long, you know? It gets hard, but it’s my job. That’s just how I think of it.”
KJ added, “I don’t dislike [the shirtless scenes], and I don’t necessarily welcome them, but I know it’s my job, so I’ve got to get it done.”
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While selling Neighbors 2, Zac Efron shared he will get a bit nervous when filming shirtless scenes generally.
When an interviewer requested if shirtless scenes made him really feel self-conscious, Zac stated, “I think sometimes. I spend a lot of time in the gym.”
He defined how proper earlier than filming a take for a shirtless scene, he’ll use train bands to work out and pump up his muscle mass.
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Morris Chestnut requested the writers of Rosewood to jot down fewer scenes the place his character was shirtless so he wasn’t underneath fixed stress to look “fit.”
“I actually had to talk to the writers because it was like every episode I was taking my shirt off,” he revealed to People. “I was like, ‘If you do it every episode, it doesn’t have the impact.’ And I want to eat some doughnuts every now and again!”
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Matt Damon has said that he tries to keep away from filming shirtless scenes until they’re completely vital. “I don’t like those movies where there’s just the gratuitous shot, you know, we call it the beefcake shot,” he stated.
He advised Parade, “On the first Bourne movie, I was in the best shape of my life, and we purposely never did a shot of me with my shirt off.”
Matt defined that closely relying in your seems to be as an actor is harmful as a result of as you age, individuals will typically discover you much less interesting. “Every five years, there’s a new crop (of moviegoers), and they have no idea who you are,” Matt stated. “If your identity is somehow tied to that [your looks], you’re in deep trouble. Because if it’s not happening now, it’s going to happen at some point.”
While selling The Great Wall, he was requested if he will get nervous when he has to take his shirt off for a scene. Matt replied, “I’ve always tried to avoid the beefcake shots unless they make sense for the story.”
He then defined why he felt comfy doing a shirtless scene in The Great Wall. “In this one, I wake up, I’m in an infirmary, and I’ve been wounded, so I was like, ‘Okay, well that’s acceptable.'”
“For the Jason Bourne movie, [the shirtless scene] was telling a story about where he’d been for the last 10 years. And I went, ‘Okay,’ because I resisted taking my shirt off in the other Jason Bourne movies,” he shared. “The only time we did was in the first one and Doug Liman [director] purposely shot only on my back so you just see the two bullet holes.”
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While doing an interview for Daddy’s Home, an interviewer requested Mark Wahlberg if it was his resolution to take off his shirt so many instances within the movie, to which he answered, “No. No not at all. Never.”
Will Ferrell chimed in saying, “No, he’s very reluctant to do it. He obliged us by doing that actually.”
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Taylor Lautner stated his shirtless scenes in Twilight had been embarrassing and awkward.
Taylor advised Collider, “Those are the awkward scenes. When everybody is fully clothed, it’s raining, and I’m just the only person there, posing for them.”
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Richard Madden declared that he refuses to movie scenes that require him to be unclothed for no good motive.
In an interview with Vogue, he stated, “I read scripts where, within the first 15 pages, it says, ‘He gets into the shower…’ And I think, I know exactly what this is, it’s just a scene to get me to take my clothes off. And then I’m like, ‘Right, if you can f–king explain to me why it’s important that I have my shirt off, then I will absolutely do it. But if you can’t’ — which they often can’t — ‘then I won’t.’”
He added that every now and then, “it’s ‘completely vital. … There’s a means you communicate to somebody while you’re utterly bare. For comedy, for intimacy, if there’s a motive, OK. But I attempt to keep away from gratuitous bathe scenes.”
He additionally expressed that “we’re projecting a very unrealistic body image. I find myself with actor friends — after we’ve done a kind of barely eating, working-out-twice-a-day, no-carbing thing for these scenes — looking at each other going: ‘We’re just feeding this same shit that we’re against.’”
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Jacob Elordi expressed his disdain about all the eye his physique bought from his a number of shirtless scenes within the first Kissing Booth film.
To put together for The Kissing Booth, Jacob went to the gymnasium twice a day, seven days per week. He constructed noticeable muscle however detested how individuals had been principally speaking about his look as an alternative of his appearing.
(*12*) he shared. After the primary Kissing Booth, he slimmed down for his function as Nate in Euphoria, and he determined he would not prepare in any respect for The Kissing Booth 2, which had noticeably fewer shirtless scenes than its predecessor.
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In his e book Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity, Justin Baldoni wrote about his struggles with physique dysmorphia and his nervousness whereas filming shirtless scenes.
In his TED Talk, Justin joked about having made a profession taking part in “the hot guy” and jokingly cited his roles together with, “’Shirtless Date Rapist’ from the award-winning Spring Break Shark Attack. ‘Shirtless Medical Student,’ ‘Shirtless Steroid-Using Con Man’ and, in my most well-known function, as Rafael [on Jane the Virgin]. A brooding, reformed playboy who falls for, of all issues, a virgin, and who is simply often shirtless.”
He revealed in his e book that earlier than shirtless shoots, he would have interaction in excessive weight-reduction plan and train and used props to cover components of his physique he felt self-conscious about. By the time he was on Jane the Virgin, he thought he had labored by his insecurities, however then discovered himself anxious each time he needed to shoot a shirtless scene for the present.
He additionally wrote in regards to the influence he realized his roles had been making. “I was taking off my shirt on TV and literally creating the same images that triggered my insecurities as a boy.”
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Matt McGorry revealed that after he give up doing bodybuilding competitions, he struggled along with his physique picture and filming scenes along with his shirt off.
“When I had my first shirtless scene in Orange Is the New Black, those same ideas crept into my mind again,” he shared. “I did some unhealthy crash dieting. And now, I look back, and I think that’s really sad.”
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Jacob Artist advised TV Guide that he wasn’t initially comfortable when he discovered he must be shirtless for an episode of Glee during which the male glee membership members had been photographed for a “sexy” calendar.
“Had that been my first scene when I started this show, I probably would have been hyperventilating and panicking,” Jacob said.
He added, “I think that we help each other out so much on those days where we have to be shirtless. Someone will be like, ‘OK! Drop! [Do] 25 push-ups everybody!’ and then everybody will get down and start doing it.”
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Lastly, as soon as the actors of Top Gun: Maverick knew the film would come with a shirtless soccer scene, they began understanding, and lots of of them bought emotional the day of taking pictures the scene.
The movie’s Director Joesph Kosinski described how the actors prepped for the scene. “Those actors had that date on the calendar circled six months out as you can imagine.” He added, “And they’re working out in the gym until midnight the night before, starving themselves.”
On the day they filmed the scene, Joseph revealed a few of the actors began having emotional breakdowns after studying that they is probably not proven shirtless in any respect.
Joseph defined that “originally, I conceived the scene as shirts versus skins. And I got there, and I started dividing them up, you know, shirt, skin, shirt, skin. And everyone who I told was a shirt started having emotional breakdowns.”
“One of the actors came up to me and said, ‘I’ve been working out for six months! Please, please don’t make me put on the T-shirt.’” Ultimately, Joseph determined to only let all of them be skins.
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