Dax Shepard, the actor and Armchair Expert podcast host, has revealed his lifelong attraction to muscular men. He discussed his relationship with fitness and the childhood experiences he believes played a role in this fascination while speaking with Taron Egerton on his podcast on August 10. “I f—— love men’s bodies more than anything in the world,” Shepard confessed.
Dax Shepard explained how classic action stars created his lifelong fascination with muscle
The 51-year-old actor and comedian said his interest in muscular bodies started when he was young and was heavily influenced by the action stars he watched on screen. While expressing his fascination, he said, “I love muscle so much.”
He then went back to his childhood and remembered watching Conan the Barbarian. This is the movie that helped make Arnold Schwarzenegger a major Hollywood star. “Well, for me, I’ll explain it as like being born in ’75, and it was like my first drive-in movie was Conan the Barbarian,” Shepard said.
Referring to Sylvester Stallone, he added, “I was just like, wait a minute, a man can look like a gorilla, and then Stallone was at his height. It was like the birth of muscles.”
For Shepard, his fascination with muscles eventually became connected to his childhood. “I grew up in a house with a violent stepdad beating everyone up,” he revealed. He explained that seeing Schwarzenegger’s powerful physique made him feel that being strong could protect him. “So, when I saw Conan, I was like, ‘Oh, if I look like that, I got no problems for the rest of my life.’ So that just, that was like, ‘Yeah, … If I was Conan, I got no problems,” Shepard said.
The conversation also touched on Egerton’s own transformation for his Netflix movie Apex. The actor admitted that getting extremely lean and muscular for the role came with a serious cost.
Dax Shepard also believes muscles represent something deeper for him: hard work and discipline.
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