Alexander Skarsgard's secret to his washboard abs? Eating 7,000 calories a day! The star of The Legend of Tarzan went to dieting extremes to get his incredibly ripped body for his role as the rope-swinging jungle-dweller. For three months before filming started, Skarsgard, 39, tripled his food intake and lifted heavy weights to add 25 lbs. to his frame. To do it, he trained with his friend Magnus Lygdbäck, a trainer-nutritionist also from Sweden. "When you have to see the same person every morning at 4:30 am, it's important you get on well with them," Skarsgard told Mr. Porter. But the real diet...
- 7/1/2016
- by Julie Mazziotta, @julietmazz
- PEOPLE.com
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