Dave Bautista Addresses Health Concerns Over Weight Loss Following “Uncomfortably Big” Weight Gain For ‘Knock At The Cabin’

Armando Tinoco
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Dave Bautista is addressing his weight loss amid health concerns raised by fans.

The Knock at the Cabin actor said in a recent interview that his initial weight gain was initially for the M. Night Shyamalan psychological horror film.

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“I started trimming down for a particular reason. One, I started trimming down because I just got fat,” Bautista said in an interview with social media personality Chris Van Vliet that he shared on TikTok. “I got really big for a role and it was uncomfortably big… Knock at the Cabin… I got really big. I was like around 315 pounds and I put the weight on really fast.”

Bautista noted that he had to put on weight “between films” and only “had a very short period of time” to gain weight, which he did by eating french fries and pancakes. The Guardians of the Galaxy alum recalled the director telling him that he wanted Bautista “to look like a great big guy” and not “to look like a powerlifter.”

“Looking back at it, I probably over did it,” Bautista said. “I was probably a little too big, but at the time, I was just thinking, I gotta get big. And I put on an uncomfortable amount of weight, and it took me forever to shed it off.”

Bautista said that when he started losing weight, “I noticed the more I trimmed down, the better I felt. And I also noticed the more I trimmed down, the better I looked on camera, the better I look next to other actors.”

“People say, ‘God, you’re skinny,'” he continued. “I’ve even seen online, some people worried about my health. And when I say it out loud, ‘I’m 6’4″ 240 pounds,’ which sounds like I’m a big person. People have seen me so much bigger over the years that they think I’m like anorexic, but I’m still just a large human being next to your typical actor. It looks like a gorilla and it’s distracting.”

Bautista said he is still working on losing “a few more pounds” and “training hard” to do so, restricting his caloric intake.

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