"Friends sent me tweets of people saying that I was running like Phoebe Buffay in Friends, but that's how it was scripted. Scott listening to a podcast talking about how bad his game is right now. So, he's like trying to outrun his destructive thoughts. It was purposeful to ugly run!"
"For the longest time, I think I was afraid of working out too much. And now, this year in particular, my whole outlook on it kind of changed. I was like, I want to look like I've never read a book. For a brief moment in time, I achieved that."
"When they asked me to play a hockey player, well, first of all, I thought I need to skate properly and stop and skate backwards and in circles. And uh, and also I knew there was a lot of n*dity involved, and I wanted to just look like a professional athlete. I knew I was never going to have the thighs of a professional hockey player because they have tree trunks. But I sure did try."
François Arnaud, 40, prepared for his role as Canadian hockey captain Scott Hunter by transforming his physique and sharing his gym routine with Men's Health. He trained to skate properly, learn stopping and backward skating, and increase athletic appearance while acknowledging he could not develop professional hockey thighs. He said he once feared overworking out but shifted his outlook to pursue a professional-athlete look and briefly achieved it. He described a scripted “ugly run” scene as purposeful, portraying Scott trying to outrun destructive thoughts. The workout video and his comments drew positive online reactions and fan tweets.
Read at Queerty
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