Conor McGregor attends the ‘Road House’ premiere during SXSW on March 8.Photo:Greg Doherty/Getty Images for Amazon MGM Studios
Greg Doherty/Getty Images for Amazon MGM Studios
Conor McGregor’s film debut leaves little to the imagination — and he’s not afraid to joke about it!
“I said to myself, ‘Arnold Schwarzeneggerentered the movie business in a similar manner when he was standing on the thing inThe Terminator,’ so that kind of gave me a bit of confidence,” McGregor adds. “I thought, ‘I’ll do it. I don’t mind.’ It’s going to be a shock to people, I think.”
The remake of the 1989 film of the same name — which premiered at the Texas festival this past weekend and arrives on Prime Video on March 21 — had starJake Gyllenhaalfollowing quite theworkout and nutritional routineto get into peak shape for the role.
As for McGregor, he explains that one scene in particular had a unique personal requirement of its own: channeling his “free spirit.”
“I just got into just going naked and walking through the street — that was it,” he tells PEOPLE. “I just did it. I’m a free spirit. I was in good shape, so I have no problem with it.”
Conor McGregor attends the ‘Road House’ premiere during SXSW on March 8.Astrida Valigorsky/Getty
Astrida Valigorsky/Getty
As Gyllenhaal explained, preparing forRoad House"took a village."
“I’ll tell you that being where I am — 10 years ago I madeSouthpaw, which is another fight movie, and I was in a different place. My body was, I knew that I needed help with nutrition and I knew I needed to keep myself safe from injury and I needed to also be able to have the aesthetics of the whole role,” Gyllenhaal told PEOPLE.
“So balancing all that took a group of people helping me all the time,” he added.
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The actor also gave credit to his “incredible” trainer Jason Walsh and “wonderful” chef Paulette Tejeda, as well as a nutritionist, adding that he had “an incredible group of people constantly handing me food, making it happen, making sure there was flexibility.”
“But we trained about an hour, an hour and a half, every day before work,” Gyllenhaal told PEOPLE. “And then we always had to sort of taper depending on what the schedule called for. So if the schedule called for more fighting and action where I needed more energy, we would do less. And then you’d sort of get it throughout the day. So yeah, it was a village and I listened to what they said and this is the result.”
Road Houseis set to release on Prime Video on March 21.
source: people.com
