Everyone around the world seemed to have been shocked by Dave Bautista’s recent photos at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) last weekend, most of whom pointed out his drastic weight loss. The former wrestler-now-actor, however, shared that he is content with his appearance and hopes to maintain it.
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“I’m getting super trimmed. This is probably the lightest I’ve been since I was 19 years old,” he said in an interview with Chris Van Vliet to promote his new film “Killer’s Game. “The heaviest I’ve ever been was 370 pounds. When I started wrestling as a Deacon, I was about 325 pounds. Throughout most of my wrestling career, I was about 290 pounds. Now I’m about 240 pounds. Just a year and a half ago for “Knock At The Cabin,” I went up to 315 pounds and that’s when the nightmare started. Getting that weight off has been a real challenge.”
“I’ve even saw online that some people are worried about my health. When I say it out loud to people, I’m 6’4″ and 240 pounds. When you say that out loud, it sounds like I’m a big person. People have seen me so much bigger over the years and they think I’m anorexic, but I’m still, I’m just a large human being. So at 6’4″and 240 pounds, next to your typical actor, I look like a gorilla and it’s distracting.”
Bautista then went on to share that he’s now been watching his diet carefully. “I’m around 240 pounds now, which is the lightest I’ve been in decades. Getting the weight off has been a tough journey, but I’m happy with where I am.”
Bautista spent 20 years wrestling with WWE and made a name for himself as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. He retired in 2019 and has since taken on many acting roles in Hollywood. He is best known as Drax the Destroyer in “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
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