Dave Bautista lost 33 kilos in one year... and it was mostly muscle mass

What happened to Dave Bautista?
Script requirement
He lost 33 kilos (72lb)
His lowest weight in 36 years
He once reached a weight of 170 kilos (374lb)
From 143 to 109 kilos in a year and a half
Diet and martial arts
Does it look better than before?
Volume was sometimes in the way
Everything for the film
Together with Pamela Anderson
What happened to Dave Bautista?

Those who have seen Dave Bautista in recent weeks will have been amazed by his unexpected physical change.

Script requirement

The actor had to lose weight for his latest film, 'The Last Showgirl', directed by Gia Coppola, and the result has been very surprising.

He lost 33 kilos (72lb)

The former WWE wrestler lost just over 33 kilos in a year and a half, as he himself confirmed in an interview with 'LIVE with Kelly and Mark'.

His lowest weight in 36 years

To put things into context, Dave Bautista is 55 years old and, as he said in the interview, "This is probably the lightest I've been since I was 19 years old."

He once reached a weight of 170 kilos (374lb)

Dave Bautista confirms that when he was competing as a wrestler, he used to weigh 132 kilos. At times he even reached 170 kilos. That's a lot, but you also have to consider his height of 198 cm (6'4).

From 143 to 109 kilos in a year and a half

When he had to start this radical weight loss, at the beginning of 2023, the actor was at 143 kilos. And "that’s when the nightmare started," he admits.

Diet and martial arts

To lose so much weight, Dave Bautista claims to have resorted to jiu-jitsu and a strict diet. It allowed him to drop to 109 kilos (229lb).

Does it look better than before?

Her you see a 'before' picture, from the film 'Knives Out: Glass Onion' (2022, Netflix). Bautista has mostly lost muscle mass, not fat. "Muscle weighs more than fat, so clearly a lot of it is muscle weight," he explains.

"I'm okay with it"

The former wrestler does not look especially muscular anymore. "But I’m okay with it because I just feel more comfortable," he says.

Volume was sometimes in the way

In fact, the actor claims his excess volume had sometimes been a problem when filming certain scenes.

Everything for the film

Bautista revealed that he preferred losing muscle mass from his stomach than that from his pectorals. But wherever he lost muscle mass, it was all for the sake of a film that mattered to him.

Image: Dave Bautista, 2021 / Instagram

Together with Pamela Anderson

In 'The Last Showgirl', presented at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Dave Bautista shares the lead with Pamela Anderson. She is said to be in line to receive her first Oscar nomination for this role. We shall see!

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