Nicholas Cage has revealed the hilarious reason why his role in Ghost Rider made him never want to work out again.
In the movie, Cage plays Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stunt rider who spots some very impressive abs. Cage was been open about the intense work out regime he undertook to get into shape for the role, but is still commonly questioned whether his abs were real in the movie
“They [Cage’s ab muscles] are real, and that’s why I’ll never work out that hard again,” Cage said in an interview with GQ. “Because nobody wanted to believe they were real and they wanted to believe it was CGI, which it wasn’t so what’s the point?”
Cage has previously disputed whispers that his abs were CGI in Ghost Rider.
“Hard work. Hard, hard work. I guess I can understand why people continue to ask me that question, because you could do so many things today with CGI, but if you’re a woman, you know that’s real, right? You must know. Don’t you know it’s real?” he said during an interview with co-star Eva Mendes for And Magazine.
To which Eva Mendes responded, “Well, no because it looks so good that it looks too good. If I didn’t see it in person that day, I would have asked that question.”
Cage revealed that he would work out for at least four hours every day to get into shape for the role.
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” It was awful. Every break I was in the gym maybe four or five hours a day on shooting days and then all day on the weekends. The day I shot the mirror scene I’d had nothing to eat and I started to have candy corn sugar, which makes you more vascular, so I was going a little crazy. I was trying to be nice on the set but I was starving and I didn’t know what I was saying anymore! If there is another Ghost Rider I’m dreading that kind of workout again,” he told Indie London Ad.
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