Exclusive: Q&A with 'Wanted' Star James McAvoy
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
HW: Yeah, but how fun was the physical preparation and work outs?
JM: I did start working out six weeks before we even started the film and then while making the film for four and a half months and then five days a week during that time just in the gym an hour to 90 minutes a night. We were doing 12 hour days, but half your day was filled with doing stunts anyway so it was like a work out. Pretty intense, pretty intense.
HW: Is it true you hate going to the gym?
JM: It is not really my natural environment, it is not really where I belong spiritually, emotionally or physically and I find it kinda difficult to rationalize why I’m there. Unless it is for a sport, but just trying to get fit for the sake of being fit and not for a sporting outcome is weird for me you know? I’m not great at it, but it was good for a change to be forced to do it and to have a personal trainer, which I would never pay for myself. It is just a luxury I can’t rationalize paying for but to have somebody there being a drill sergeant and making you do things was really, really a good experience.