Chris Diamantopoulos is a kind of enormously dedicated actors that appears to shape-shift relying on the position at hand. He shredded himself right down to 7.1% bodyfat for his position alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, within the 2021 film Crimson Discover, however in his start-turn on Prime Video’s new comedy-drama, The Sticky, the actor went within the different route so as to nail the bodily comedy required of him on set.
Muscle & Health caught up with Diamantopoulos to seek out out extra.
“You already know, on a present like this, there may be some precise bodily heavy lifting,” says Diamantopoulos, who performs gangster, Mike Byrne in The Sticky, a sequence that’s loosely primarily based on the Nice Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. “I did loads of pratfalls as a result of my character is carrying the fallacious footwear for this snowy terrain, and I needed to ensure that once I fell, I might repeat that fall again and again for hours and hours and hours.”
Engaging in this took a while, the actor says. He says a part of his coaching got here from his work on one other Amazon sequence. “[It required] completely different setups, completely different digicam angles, completely different takes with out injuring myself. And in order that’s one thing that I’ve discovered to do over time, that if I’m going to do one thing on a take, I’ve to be ready to repeat it over and again and again. I simply got here from Portland, the place I’m taking pictures an thrilling new present, additionally for Amazon, known as Prison. It’s an Ed Brubaker present, and it stars amongst different folks, Charlie Hunnam and Amelia Clark and Luke Evans. And now, that’s a present the place not solely are you reciting your strains and strolling and looking out on this route and figuring out the place the digicam is, however now you’re coping with gunfire and explosions and squibs.”
Chris Diamantopoulos bulked up for ‘The Sticky’
For Crimson Discover, Diamantopoulos famously minimize right down to 7.1% bodyfat so as to play the evil villain, however in The Sticky, the actor of Greek descent says that placing on some further weight has helped him to nail among the extra bodily stuff.
His brother, Gus, is a energy and conditioning coach and proprietor of Toronto’s The Energy Room in Toronto, Canada. Gus has been overseeing the celebrities’ progress. “I feel I’m nearer to 16% physique fats, however he stated to me, ‘You already know, I gotta be trustworthy with you: From an aesthetic standpoint and from an influence standpoint, as a result of my muscle mass is up by about 6.5 kilos as effectively, I form of like this on you!’”
Diamantopoulos was conscious going into The Sticky that being match was extra necessary than being ripped. “The bodily necessities of this job had been completely different,” he explains. “They weren’t a lot from an aesthetic standpoint as a lot as they had been from a useful standpoint. I needed to do loads of literal heavy lifting on this present, and loads of bodily comedy that required falling and getting damage.”
To that finish, Diamantopoulos relaxed his intermittent fasting schedule. His coaching consisted of “gradual physique weight stuff to maintain myself versatile and robust. A lot of gradual chin ups, a lot of gradual physique squats, a lot of gradual dips and push-ups and stuff like that, and never coaching fairly often. Actually simply giving my physique an opportunity to get well.”
The Sticky additionally stars three-time Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale and visitor stars Jamie Lee Curtis, who additionally served as govt producer on the quick paced six-part comedy-drama. Diamantopoulos says that he beloved the shoot and received on like “peas and carrots” with the remainder of his illustrious forged. For now, the actor is having fun with his bulkier body. “I don’t thoughts a bit of further meat on the bone,” he says. Till the subsequent venture requires one other shape-shift, in fact!
The Sticky premieres Dec. 6, 2024 on Prime Video. You may see Chris Diamantopoulos’ total interview with M&F beneath.