{"id":12576,"date":"2024-12-04T19:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=12576"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T12:45:36","slug":"chris-diamantopoulos-gained-nearly-7-pounds-of-muscle-for-the-sticky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=12576","title":{"rendered":"Chris Diamantopoulos Gained Nearly 7 Pounds of Muscle for \u2018The Sticky\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chris Diamantopoulos is one of those greatly committed actors that seems to shape-shift depending on the role at hand. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/pro-tips\/how-chris-diamantopoulos-dropped-down-7-bodyfat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shredded himself down to 7.1% bodyfat<\/a> for his role alongside Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, in the 2021 movie Red Notice, but in his start-turn on Prime Video\u2019s new comedy-drama, The Sticky, the actor went in the other direction in order to nail the physical comedy required of him on set.<\/p>\n<p><em>Muscle &amp; Fitness<\/em> caught up with Diamantopoulos to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, on a show like this, there is some actual physical heavy lifting,\u201d says Diamantopoulos, who plays gangster, Mike Byrne in <em>The Sticky,<\/em> a series that is loosely based on the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. \u201cI did a lot of pratfalls because my character is wearing the wrong shoes for this snowy terrain, and I had to make sure that when I fell, I could repeat that fall over and over again for hours and hours and hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accomplishing this took some time, the actor says. He says part of his training came from his work on another Amazon series. \u201c[It required] different setups, different camera angles, different takes without injuring myself. And so that\u2019s something that I\u2019ve learned to do over time, that if I\u2019m going to do something on a take, I have to be prepared to repeat it over and over and over again. I just came from Portland, where I\u2019m shooting an exciting new show, also for Amazon, called <em>Criminal.<\/em> It\u2019s an Ed Brubaker show, and it stars among other people, Charlie Hunnam and Amelia Clark and Luke Evans. And now, that\u2019s a show where not only are you reciting your lines and walking and looking in this direction and knowing where the camera is, but now you\u2019re dealing with gunfire and explosions and squibs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Chris Diamantopoulos bulked up for \u2018The Sticky\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>For <em>Red Notice,<\/em> Diamantopoulos famously cut down to 7.1% bodyfat in order to play the evil villain, but in The Sticky, the actor of Greek descent says that putting on some extra weight has helped him to nail some of the more physical stuff.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Gus, is a strength and conditioning coach and owner of Toronto\u2019s The Strength Room in Toronto, Canada. Gus has been overseeing the stars\u2019 progress. \u201cI think I\u2019m closer to 16% body fat, but he said to me, \u2018You know, I gotta be honest with you: From an aesthetic standpoint and from a power standpoint, because my muscle mass is up by about 6.5 pounds as well, I kind of like this on you!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diamantopoulos was aware going into <em>The Sticky<\/em> that being fit was more important than being ripped. \u201cThe physical requirements of this job were different,\u201d he explains. \u201cThey weren\u2019t so much from an aesthetic standpoint as much as they were from a functional standpoint. I had to do a lot of literal heavy lifting on this show, and a lot of physical comedy that required falling and getting hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Diamantopoulos relaxed his intermittent fasting schedule. His training consisted of \u201cslow body weight stuff to keep myself flexible and strong. Lots of slow chin ups, lots of slow body squats, lots of slow dips and push-ups and stuff like that, and not training very often. Really just giving my body a chance to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sticky<\/em> also stars three-time Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale and guest stars Jamie Lee Curtis, who also served as executive producer on the fast paced six-part comedy-drama. Diamantopoulos says that he loved the shoot and got on like \u201cpeas and carrots\u201d with the rest of his illustrious cast. For now, the actor is enjoying his bulkier frame. \u201cI don\u2019t mind a little extra meat on the bone,\u201d he says. Until the next project requires another shape-shift, of course!<\/p>\n<p>The Sticky premieres Dec. 6, 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primevideo.com\/detail\/The-Sticky\/0MH2ARHVWK6J2GROZ6ZZ7FFA9H\">on Prime Video<\/a>. You can see Chris Diamantopoulos\u2019 entire interview with <em>M&amp;F<\/em> below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scott Felstead interviews Chris Diamantopoulos on &quot;The Sticky&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5UOxdq--RUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/news\/chris-diamantopoulos-gained-nearly-7-pounds-of-muscle-for-the-sticky\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Diamantopoulos is one of those greatly committed actors that seems to shape-shift depending on the role at hand. He shredded himself down to 7.1% bodyfat for his role alongside Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, in the 2021 movie Red Notice, but in his start-turn on Prime Video\u2019s new comedy-drama, The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}