Gerard butler 300 hours day movie#

But it was great, I mean it was a lot of fun. So there was that, and that went on for months and months, and we’d be doing that between shots, jumping off in the gym with all the stunt guys. To really look like you knew what you were doing. But also, there was a lot of bodybuilding – lifting weights – and then of course we had the more aerobic side of things with the swords and the shields and the spears, and that was just, like, doing routine after routine and doing it again and again, to get that strength and that stamina and also to get that form. I pretty much spent four months on a massage table after shooting this movie.Ĭan I just ask – what did the training involve? I have no wish to do so for quite a while either.

At the same time, I haven’t been in a gym once we stopped. It was intense, but it really built that bonding, and in some ways, camaraderie between the guys.

Gerard butler 300 hours day movie#

I was training way before the movie started, and then I picked it up again when the movie got up in Montreal. Gerard Butler: I started training a little earlier. When did you start training for the movie, Gerard? And then I got drop foot, and I was flopping around, my foot was flopping around, for like six days, and then I damaged my shoulders from just doing too much, basically overdoing it.ĭavid Wenham: He wouldn’t listen to me, I told him that would happen. I don’t know about you, but I pulled my groin at one point. There was a couple stunt men got injured. Gerard Butler: At times it seemed like every day somebody else was being carted off to the hospital. I was paid to get the fittest I’d ever been in my life, so it was good. I’d never trained like that in my life before.

Gerard Butler: There were a few injuries.ĭavid Wenham: I liked the results of getting fit, granted the results are gone, but I liked the results. It also looked like it was a pretty physically demanding film. According to legend, their valor and sacrifice inspired all of Greece to unite against their Persian foe, leading to the origins of democracy.Ĭlint Morris caught up with the films stars, Scottish heartthrob Gerard Butler and acclaimed Aussie actor David Wenham – both looking a lot less built than they do in the film. Battle of Thermopylae, where Spartan king Leonidas led his army of 300 soldiers into battle against the invading Persian army. Based on the renowned graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City), and directed by talented newcomer Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead), its set in the midst of the Persian-Greco war and revolves around the 480 B.C.

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