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He knew that to stay castable and bankable as an action hero and to convincingly play such roles as Handsome Rob in The Italian Job and Chev Chelios in Crank, he needed to make some changes.

What the actor found, however, was that looking fit and staying fit were totally different challenges.

The mixed martial arts enthusiast (and former diver with the British national team) stayed active before he was discovered by director Guy Ritchie and given a starring role in the gangster-and-ganja epic Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Today he’s shredded-abs, chest, and arms barbed and muscular without looking ponderous. So far, the strategy has succeeded for Statham, who has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most coveted actors, when the role is required to kick someone’s ass. He believes that every move during a workout should be functional and natural so that the body projects the tension of a coiled spring. Hood is a former Navy SEAL who now runs Epoch Training, in Los Angeles. His trainer, Logan Hood, best known for whipping the 300 actors into Spartan shape, designs workouts that manipulate your own body weight and then add weights so that your muscles retain a functionality-and you maintain your athleticism. They employed full-body-weight exercises and old-school gym techniques that seemed to work wonders.”Įlements of what Statham saw at the state pen are now staples in his own six-day-a-week routine. These guys were using their own bodies for lifts, pullups, situps, and squats. “They didn’t have the big, fat machines you have in the typical gym. “They had banned weights from the prison yard,” Statham recalls. The ripped cons worked out with explosive strength moves but little equipment. While prepping for his role as convict Jensen Ames in the sci-fi action flick Death Race, Statham strolled the yard at California’s Corcoran State Prison and watched how the inmates got into what the 38-year-old actor admiringly calls “prison shape” (versus what he disdainfully describes as “gym shape”). That’s what The Expendables star Jason Statham did three years ago. However, Statham’s appearances in the bigger, more mainstream Hollywood flicks boosted his profile in terms of what was once his stock-and-trade.If you want to get in incredible shape, go to prison.

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Statham never really got his “B movie to A movie” bump, partially because Hollywood barely makes films like Total Recall, Under Siege or Cliffhanger. Those two flicks, opening amid Statham’s metaphorical promotion as an added value element in Furious 7 ($1.515 billion), Spy ($235 million) and The Meg ($530 million), are both among Statham’s biggest global-grossing action vehicles ever. That was his last “just an actioner” until now. Mechanic: Resurrection earned $22 million domestic in late 2016 and, partially thanks to $54 million in China, $126 million global on a $40 million budget.

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This, again, in the middle of a global pandemic amid shattered theatrical windows and (allegedly) changing consumer behavior. It could end up, give or take Snatch, Statham’s third-biggest overseas-grossing solo/non-franchise action flick. With $45 million overseas and a likely finish over/under $50 million, its foreign cume will be right between (for now) Transporter 2 ($46 million), Mechanic ($48 million), Snatch ($53 million, if you choose to count it), Transporter 3 ($81 million) and Mechanic Resurrection ($104 million). I don’t know if Wrath of Man will pass Transporter 3, and it’s probably not going to top $100 million. Now that doesn’t count his turns in The Fast Saga (villain in Furious 7, anti-hero in Fate of the Furious and good guy in Hobbs & Shaw), nor his second-only-to-Stallone turns in the Expendables trilogy, The Meg or his supporting turns in the likes of Spy, The Italian Job or Gnomeo and Juliet.

Snatch is an ensemble piece and more of a gangster comedy than an actioner, but if Wrath of Man passes it that will be a moot point.