Glen Powell wanted to be "a bit of a weapon" for his starring role in The Running Man reboot.

The 36-year-old actor takes on the lead role in a new adaptation of Stephen King's book - which was previously a 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger - and he's now revealed he threw himself into training because he wanted to be fit and muscular for the role.

He told GQ magazine: "I knew that based on the Stephen King book, [my character] Ben Richards was a tank.

"I was like: 'Okay, I got to be a bit of a weapon.' And so that’s why I trained the way I trained on this. I put on a lot of muscle. A lot of it was functional.

"A lot of it was so I could absorb hits. But a lot of it was also authentically for an audience … I went from going: 'Oh, I’m an actor on a movie' to 'I’m a high-performan

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