Snake in France 2: How to convert Tahar Rahim physically

In the snake to enter Charles Sobraj’s skin, Tahar Rahim must be physically transformed. The challenge itself, which was complicated by the shooting delay … At a meeting with the actor on March 24, 2021, he convinced him of his preparation.

Destroy your body

“Physical training was very intense. In my favor because I did a lot of sports, so it’s better (laughs). I have to work hard to reach its style. Exactly. Because there are different ways to build muscles. His body had to match the maximum. It has a head port, standing a way that is really right. Although we can also be muscles (it imitates a bodybuilder). This is not a gladiator.

I worked with the coach, explaining how to cut it. This is what I need to keep. I got it tasteful, it did it good. I kept it later. It wasn’t the most difficult to do. Except for the start. We all know. Returning to sports is always hell (smiling). Suffering …“

Due to shooting due to teaspoon

“It was a little more difficult when you had to stop shooting. Usually, we had to end at the end of December 2019. We had complications of filming and exceeded. Only, I had to go to the movie in the meantime: Mauritanian (Offender, editor’s note) In South Africa, where I really had to lose weight. Very fast. What I did.

Then I had to go back to the snake. So, update Charles’s physical appearance. What I tried from the beginning (he laughs). And we said to ourselves: “What can be addressed to us more ? “And you go there, the pandem … So we have to stop shooting. Everyone went home. I lived well because I was abroad for nine months.

Then, we had to return to finish the shoots for the last two weeks. Only it was less exotic because we ended France, India, and probably a little Thailand, I don’t know anymore … and this is where the designer’s team and production are still magical because we do not see it.“

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