Zac Efron, depressed by the intensity of physical preparation for the Baywatch movie

It has come a long way since then Musical high school. Yet Zac Efron remains confined to the roles of beautiful, on the small and big screen. This was the case in Baywatch: Baywatchdirected by Seth Gordon and released in 2017. For this film where he spends half his time in a bathing suit, the actor had to undergo intense physical preparation.

Zac Efron’s grueling physical preparation for Baywatch.

On the cover of the magazine’s October 2022 issue Men’s healthZac Efron today unveils the consequences of this conditioning on his physical and mental health:

“This look Baywatch, I don’t know if it’s really possible. We end up with too little water in the body. It looks so fake it looks like CGI [Computer-Generated Imagery : des images de synthèse]. To achieve this, Lasix, powerful diuretics, were needed. I don’t want to do it anymore. I much prefer to have 2 to 3% more body fat. “

“I fell into a terrible depression”

In addition to taking diuretics (to get rid of water from his body and thus show the driest muscles possible, Zac Efron had to eat the same meal three times a day. All his alarms were set at 4 am in order to play sports, not it mattered what time filming had ended the day before:

” I started developing insomnia. I have been in a terrible depression for a long time. Something about this experience burned me. I had a hard time refocusing. In the end, I was given diuretics for too long, it ruined something for me. “

Zac Efron therefore takes advantage of this interview to warn about the excesses associated with achieving a physique worthy of the unrealistic and unsustainable standards of Hollywood beauty. A message also sent by Channing Tatum, in relation to magical Mike. It is difficult, difficult to be a sex symbol in Hollywood.

Front page photo credit: Zac Efron in the film Baywatch.