Taron Egerton is opening up about the physical transformation he went through for his role in Apex.
In the Netflix action thriller movie released back in April, Charlize Theron played a grieving woman who finds herself being hunted in the Australian wilderness by a serial killer (played by Egerton).
While appearing on the Monday (August 10) episode of Dax Shepard‘s Armchair Expert podcast, Taron, 36, detailed the mental and physical toll the transformation had on him.
“It’s worth being wary of that, I think, because that version of me in Apex, the guy who’s whatever silly body fat I was, and all kind of strong, every day I punish myself for not looking like that,” Taron said. “But the truth of the matter is that I starved myself.”
“I was running myself absolutely ragged to get there,” the Golden Globe winner added.
Taron went on to share that a friend once told him that his job was to “smash” the “idealized version” of himself, not to “aspire” to it.
“It’s been a tremendous help to me. It’s one of the things that is a challenge nobody wants to hear about, but fluctuating relationship with your own images,” he noted.
Taron also admitted that he was often “filled with self-loathing” during his “shirtless days” filming Apex and his 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service.
“I couldn’t enjoy it at the time because I’d completely lost any distorted sense of perspective,” he explained. “Also, it ain’t that deep. You bounce back, you carry on. It’s fine. It’s just what it is, you know?”
In an interview from last year, Taron explained why he doesn’t think that he’s a good choice to play the next James Bond.
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