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class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-text subbuzz-index-1 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-text"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">This post contains discussion of body image issues.</span> </h2> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-2 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">Paul Rudd has been acting in things since I was in short pants — but MCU fans likely know him best from his role as Ant-Man in the film franchise.</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-3 " data-keywords="fast fashion" data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">Many MCU-affiliated actors have had to maintain insanely unreasonable body standards to portray their characters — and, as it turns out, Paul's situation is no different.</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-4 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">During a recent appearance on the <i>Off Menu</i> podcast, Paul detailed what he had to go through diet-wise to portray Ant-Man in the MCU films — and, surprise surprise, it does <i>not</i> sound even remotely worth it.</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-5 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">“When I was having to train for the <i>Ant-Man</i> movie, and I was on a very restrictive diet, my reward was sparkling water,” he revealed. “That’s how horrible that diet was."</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-6 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">"I was like, ‘Alright, I’m gonna have some sparkling water now, I’ve earned it.’ Yeah, it was great. It wasn’t flavored, I wasn’t gonna go crazy.”</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-7 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">Paul also explained that he adhered to the diet for all of his work in the MCU films, which comprised of eating “really boring food, every time, over and over again" — and that adhering to it was "actually not too hard" once he was in it.</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-8 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">But Paul also said that, even though he engaged in workout regimens in a similar manner as his MCU costars, he could never quite achieve the same results as his colleagues.</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-9 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">"I worked out harder than anyone, I would eat better than everyone, and I looked worse than all of them," he admitted. "I had to work out all the time, eat perfectly, just to look kind of bad. Not even like great.”</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-10 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">“I remember on <i>Endgame</i>, Chris Hemsworth would always have these Tupperware containers and he’s eating this gruel of just a mash of stuff," he further recalled. "He’s working out, and then you stand next to a guy like that, and I just think, ‘Well, what’s the point of any of this?’"</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-11 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">"Why am I killing myself when that can exist, and then I look at myself and this exists. I can never achieve that...That was the good thing that it was Ant-Man, it isn’t Thor."</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-image subbuzz-index-12 " data-module="subbuzz-image"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">"But I tried to work out, and it didn’t work.”</span> </h2> <figure class="subbuzz__media"> </figure> </div></div></div><div class="js-subbuzz-wrapper"><div> <div class="subbuzz buzz-width--standard__subbuzz buzz-type--list__subbuzz subbuzz-text subbuzz-index-13 " data-module="subbuzz-text"> <h2 class="subbuzz__header subbuzz__header--standard subbuzz__title "> <span class="js-subbuzz__title-text">You can listen to the entire interview here.</span> </h2> </div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div></main><noscript><img height="1" width="1" alt="" src="https://ct.pinterest.com/v3/?event=init&tid=2617235898255&pd[em]=<hashed_email_address>&noscript=1"/></noscript></div></div></body></div> <br>[ad_2] <br><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/larryfitzmaurice/paul-rudd-ant-man-mcu-diet">Source link </a>
