The Weekend Binge: The Evolution of the Action-Movie Physique

Salim Lemelle
MEL Magazine
Published in
2 min readJul 15, 2018

Remember how Hugh Jackman only ate boiled chicken to achieve his much coveted Wolverine Bod? Or how Chris Pratt stopped drinking beer to become Star-Lord? Or when Ben Affleck went from fatfleck to Batfleck? It wasn’t always this way, though. In fact, action stars used to be built a lot more like you than Adonis. Here then is our Weekend Binge on the history of swole action heroes:

Salim Lemelle is a writer/producer/performer on MEL’s daily video series,TL;DR. He last binged on Paul Rudd movies.

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