Mark Wahlberg has had a long history of altering his body shape to suit whatever role he's currently playing, and he did so again for his new movie Father Stu.
To portray the boxer-turned-priest, Wahlberg put on 30 extra pounds in just six weeks!
Wahlberg told Entertainment Tonight, "I had six weeks to put on about 30 pounds. I started with 7,000 calories for the first two weeks and then 11,000 calories for the final four weeks," Wahlberg said. "None of it was fun, except for the first meal was amazing, because I hadn't eaten anything up until that point. But after that, when you're already full and you have to eat again, and at my age it's just not a healthy thing to do, to try to put on that kind of weight in that amount of time."
And though Wahlberg tried to start gaining weight a more "healthy" way, by the end of the process he had to take more extreme measures, including drinking glasses of olive oil daily.
"I wasn't eating anything that you would think, 'Oh my God, I get to sit on the couch and eat ice cream and pizzas,'" he said. "I tried to do it in a healthy way. It was a dozen eggs and a dozen pieces of bacon, two baked potatoes, a Porterhouse steak, two bowls of white rice, and a glass of olive oil. The first two weeks were high proteins. The second two weeks were a lot of carbs. The last two weeks starches, and then sodium, just to kind of get as bloated as possible. So not a lot of fun."
Wahlberg didn't sacrifice his beloved workout routine for this role, however.
"I had to get up the appetite, so I would go in there and try to lift as heavy as possible just to get hungry," he said. "And then I'd have the weight gainer shakes as well and all that stuff. But none of it was fun. There's nothing worse than when you're full from the last meal and you have to eat again."
