Invoice Skarsgard bought in form for ‘The Crow’ by consuming steak tartare and uncooked eggs.
The 34-year-old actor stars within the reboot of the 1994 film as Eric / The Crow, a person who’s resurrected to avenge the deaths of himself and his girlfriend Shelly (performed by FKA twigs) and Invoice went on a strict eating regimen for the function.
Director Rupert Sanders informed Selection: “I’d take Invoice out to dinner. I’d all the time simply order for him as a result of I knew what he was consuming. It’s principally steak tartare and uncooked eggs. He was within the gymnasium lots. He ate very healthily and put us all to disgrace after we have been consuming burgers and scorching canine and dealing late at evening within the Czech summer season.”
Invoice revealed eating regimen and train was the important thing to reaching the proper search for the film.
He stated: “I’d already been coaching for fairly some time. Me and my coach stored including a bit of little bit of weight onto what I’d already be, however I didn’t wish to be too massive both. It was a tough one, as a result of they needed the Crow to be ripped, however the character Eric shouldn’t be. I didn’t really feel just like the character needs to be skinny, however you’ll be able to’t afford to separate it into six months, the ‘Raging Bull’ type of means. So we did lots of weight coaching and ate lots of protein.”
Rupert additionally revealed he was impressed by Invoice’s dedication to the stunt sequences.
He stated: “There was lots of advanced stunt work, and Invoice did a lot of it himself. As you’ll be able to see, he’s an extremely bodily individual. His physique within the film is unimaginable. When he’s on, he’s an actual machine of destruction, but additionally he performed these unimaginable moments of softness and empathy, which actually simply give the motion sequences much more of an emotional connection, which is why I believe persons are actually responding to them. They’re not simply gratuitous violence. You actually really feel that you just’re in there with the character.”