Netflix: 20 kilos of muscle and 5000 calories a day, Alban Lenoir’s preparation for AKA was hell

It’s no surprise that AKA the movie – hosted by Alban Lenoir and available on Netflix from April 28 – is the hit of the moment. Like all Alban Lenoir films on the platform. The 42-year-old actor has gradually established himself as the benchmark for French action movies on Netflix.

Currently number 1 in France’s top 10 films, AKA is also charting in dozens of countries. It is the first non-English film to appear in the top ten in 93 countries. And this success Alban Lenoir went with muscle strength, willpower and many sacrifices.

The YouTube Popcorn Show guest actor talks about his incredible preparation for the role of Adam Franco and confides that he has been working on this project for 15 years. Alban Lenoir is indeed the co-writer of the film directed by Morgan S. with Dalibert. The two men met in 2004 in the movie New World.

There’s no escaping the fact that Alban Lenoir — who portrays an athletic physique in each of his films — is taking it a step further with AKA. It completely changes its frame.

“I had four months before shooting. You’re consuming six to seven meals a day, so you should really be eating 4,000 to 5,000 calories every three hours. So you are in a constant state of digestion, it can also be said that you are in trouble, you are broke. And you must go cast iron and train in weaponry and combat…“- says the actor of the show.

“But it’s fun! And then you prepare for your role with that. You have already done 50% of the workconcludes the one who introduced himself to the general public more than 15 years ago with Kaamelott, then with Hero Corp, which he co-created with Simon Astier.

And since we can’t stop him, if you want even more Alban Lenoir, you can find him at the movie theater in Marinette, where he plays the father of a football champion. Still on the side of feature films, but in streaming, it shows Antigang, The Next Generation on Disney + and the remake of Clouseu’s masterpiece The Wages of Fear in 2024 on Netflix.

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