02/21/2007
Gerard Butler Prepares to be a Spartan for 300
Scottish actor Gerard Butler put himself through a brutal work-out regimen for his role as King Leonidas, leader of a 300-strong army of Spartans in the upcoming adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300:
"We would do a lot of circuit training using a lot of primitive tools like kettle bells, medicine balls, rings and huge elastic things which attached to the wall. You would have to run and then stop and hold. I also worked with the stunt people in an non-air conditioned warehouse and that was like an oven inside. That was the stuff that really made you sweat. I was pretty much naked and the floor would be soaking wet with our sweat."
Men's Health takes us there in the latest issue. 300 premieres on March 9th. Check out the trailers here, and our previous coverage here.
And here's Butler's finished product:
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Now moi really wants to see a pic of the sexy Jimmyboyo. "Hot" and "Intellectual" in the same sentence? Moi is SO there. :)
Posted by: moi | Feb 21, 2007 9:09:43 PM
I have to agree with Daniel, I hope 300 has better dialog than Sin City. Sin City was a very visually appealing movie, but the whole band of whore/ninjas was too str8 boy porn fantasy for my taste.
Posted by: Scott | Feb 21, 2007 9:38:18 PM
Alexiandria
True, Wikipedia is not the best source. I myself have blasted people for citing Wikipedia. How about PBS
PBS documentary (2004) The Spartans narated by noted historian Bettany Hughes . An excellent documentary which I recomend and you can learn more about at imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416424/
It does go into the gay aspect. Debate PBS if you want......On the sounding like i was showing off. Sorry if it came across that way. That was not my intention at all. I plan on watching this movie for the visual affects and the visual affects only. I just get flustered about movies that show historical things and or people and are way way off. This isn't the 50's where you paint a white man red/ black/ yellow, stick a feather in his hair/ force him to talk in patos/ or squint his eyes, and call him an indian/ african american/ asian. This is the 21st century where we should expect nothing less than some historical accuricies in movies. On that note Gerard Butler though looking HOT is a Scots man through and through...not one drop of greek blood in him. Anyway; otherwise just do the movie about a fictitous civilization.
Mark M
Thank you
Remember, I know what you look like as well and simply stated "Woof" ;-) nice :-) alan still hasn't sent me any pics to judge his looks by and so I can send him some of me to see the "fat" comment doesn't fly.
Posted by: jimmyboyo | Feb 21, 2007 10:18:07 PM
before and after yeah that works for me for real. never heard of this guy before but now its a different story.
Posted by: DJ | Feb 25, 2007 1:32:11 PM
Sounds like it'd also make a really smokin' porn movie, and to quote Paris Hilton...."That's Hot!"
Posted by: Patrick | Feb 25, 2007 6:11:36 PM