“You’re Fu***ng Kidding Me”: Jonathan Majors Refused to Workout With Fake Weight as He Portrays a Troubled Bodybuilder in an Upcoming Movie

Acting is a profession that lets actors live multiple lives in one lifetime. An actor can be a villain in a movie and a fun-loving person in the next one. However, the transition from one movie to another needs extra commitment to carry the body language from one character to another. Some actors might not like to put extreme efforts into the transformation, but 33-year-old Jonathan Majors isn’t one of them. 

The Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania antagonist went through a fabulous transformation for two of his latest movies. As Men’s Health once reported, Majors worked exceptionally hard and was looking for the best shots, as he refused fake weights in a training sequence. Why did he refuse fake weights?

Majors’ determination to ace his roles

Jonathan Majors has been acing in his roles for a long time now. However, his new releases gave a different tangent to his acting career. With Creed III and Magazine Dreams, he looked tremendously jacked, as the roles were extremely athletic. In Creed III, the latest installment of the Rocky Cinematic Universe, Majors played a boxer. Whereas in the dark drama Magazine Dreams, he depicted an asocial bodybuilder.

Since Majors was up to play two of the most physically demanding role of his life, he trained really hard. Majors’ urge for perfection, living the character, and challenging himself took his preps a notch higher. While talking with Men’s Health, Major revealed a few instances from the shoot. Whenever he was asked to lift fake weights, he didn’t like it at all. He’s like, “You’re fucking kidding me.” Further, the 33-year-old added, “If I’m going to bench-press 250 in a film, I need to be able to bench-press 275 a few times,” then corrects himself: “305 a few times.” 

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Moreover, he also explained the reason why he didn’t want to include fake weights in the scenes. Majors explained, “I will do this all day. We are not putting fake weights on. I haven’t been training for the past three months to get here and use Styrofoam.” He continued, “Put these fucking weights on so we can lift it, so you can shoot it, so I can tell the story.” Further, he compared fake weights, “like putting fake tears in your eyes. Or putting fake sweat on you. This is it. This is it! Let’s go.” 

A day of training with Jonathan Majors

Jonathan Majors built an exquisite physique for his latest movies. As he prepped on being a bodybuilder and a boxer, he trained damn hard for it. As Men’s Health took a tour with him, he along with his trainer, Mark “Rhino” Smith, revealed his back training routine. He didn’t hold back ont the monstrous schedule he follows. 

As Smith reveals, Majors is one of the most hard-working and determined people he has worked with. Smith took through his back routine one by one, as Majors depicted what he usually does. This was how his workout regimen looked:

– Straight arm lat pull-down, 10 reps (3 sets)

– Closed grip pullups, 10-12 reps (3 sets) 

– Leg Raises 8-10 reps, (3 sets)

– Oblique Kneww Raises, 8 reps (3 sets) 

– one arm dumbbell rows, 12 reps each arm (3 sets)

– Dumbbell shrugs 12 reps, (3 sets)   

Playing any athlete on screen is a rigorous job for any actor, whether it be Sylvester Stallone, Michael B. Jordan, or Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal even got a pat on his back from the legend, Arnold Schwarzenegger himself. Indeed, Majors did a fabulous job in playing both athletic roles in his 2023 movies. And his urge to perform his best, brought justice to the roles he delivered. How would you rate his performances out of 10 in both movies? Let us know in the comments section.

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