Summary
A barbarian has needs -- a sword, a shield and roughly 56 chicken breasts a week. That's what Jason Momoa ate while filming "Conan the Barbarian," this summer's big-screen reboot of the series that launched Arnold Schwarzenegger's action movie career in 1982.
Over a few months in 2010, Momoa, a 6-foot-4-inch Hawaiian actor and model, added about 30 pounds of muscle to his 205-pound frame to play two high-profile, bare-chested plunderers -- Conan and Khal Drogo, the 7-foot-tall warrior-king marauding on HBO's "Game of Thrones."See the full content of this document
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Aesthetics and Cyclical Notions of Masculinity
Momoa isn't the only actor whose T-shirts have gotten a lot tighter recently: Dwayne Johnson also packed 30 pounds onto his already brawny 6-foot-4-inch frame to grapple as a lawman opposite meaty Vin Diesel in "Fast Five." Chris Hemsworth gained so much bulk to wield "Thor's" giant, magic hammer convincingly that his costume didn't fit....
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