‘Took a toll’: Wahlberg on 13kg weight gain

Following an intense diet, Mark Wahlberg packed on the kilos for his latest movie role. He didn’t enjoy the experience.

Mark Wahlberg ate an intense diet to put on 13 kilos for a movie role. Picture: Instagram

Drinking a glass of olive oil will do that to you.

Mark Wahlberg says that gaining 13kg (30 pounds) for his upcoming movie, Father Stu, “really took a toll on me,” reported Page Six.

In the film, Wahlberg plays Stuart Long, an amateur boxer whose career is cut short due to an injury. When he moves to L.A. in the hopes of stardom, he meets a Catholic school teacher. Their friendship coupled with the after-effects of a motorcycle accident, find his character deciding to become a priest.

Mark Wahlberg put on 13 kilos for his role in Father Stu. Picture: Instagram

“I put on 30 pounds and went from being a guy who was in fighting shape to a guy who was wheelchair-bound, suffering from a rare muscular degenerative disease,” Wahlberg told EW. “I was just turning 50 by the time we finished the movie, and I was eating 11,000 calories a day.

“That drastic weight gain really took a toll on me over the course of the last seven, eight months.”

The normally buff actor who regularly chronicles his gruelling workouts on social media revealed to Entertainment Tonight how he went about packing on the kilos.

“I tried to do it in a healthy way,” he said. “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.”

Father Stu will be in cinemas on May 12. Picture: Instagram

Last July, the Ted actor told Jimmy Fallon that it wasn’t enjoyable putting on the weight.

“Even when you’re full, I would wake up after a meal and have another meal,” he said. “I was eating every three hours. It was not fun.”

Father Stu will be released in Australia on May 12.

This article was originally published on Page Six and was reproduced here with permission

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