Dave Bautista Unrecognizable: Actor Has Lost 35 Kilos Since Leaving Marvel

Former MCU Drax was in Toronto this weekend, to present Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl.

Drax has changed a lot! We were used to seeing Dave Bautista with a spectacular build. The former wrestling hero turned actor has long played on his extraordinary physicality to make a place for himself in Hollywood. Like at Marvel, where he embodied this raw fighter.

A role he left behind two years ago, after filming Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Dave Bautista said he wanted to turn the page, move on to something else to focus on acting. And at 55, he stunned the world by arriving transformed on the red carpet of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Came to present The Last Showgirlhe arrived in Canada in a fitted black suit. A drastic weight loss that he recently explained in a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet: “I’m getting super lean, this is probably the lightest I’ve been since I was 19… I used to weigh up to 370 pounds. For most of my wrestling career, I was around 300 pounds. Now I’m around 230 pounds, whereas I was 300 pounds a year and a half ago when I did Knock at the Cabin! That’s when the nightmare began. Losing that weight was a challenge. Now I’m very meticulous about my diet…”

The Last Showgirl is a film by Gia CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter and Sofia’s niece. The feature follows a former dancer, played by Pamela Andersonwho must rebuild his life. No release date in France for the moment.