'Pain & Gain' Star's Surprising Pre-Shoot Prep

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The stunning Bar Paly stops by the Studio to share with us her experiences appearing in the action-comedy 'Pain & Gain', including meeting co-star Mark Wahlberg for the first time, and also the rather surprising prep she had to do at the request of director Michael Bay! Plus, we ask her what real-life scenarios she thinks are worth the pain, then it's time for a little arm-wrestling! Hosted by Oliver Trevena (@olivertrevena).
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Are we actually gonna try? This is gonna be real. Yes. Okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. Remove this. Now, there's you got Yes. It Your elbows gotta stay down. Wait, can it think okay. You're taking it real seriously, all right? Okay. Here we go. Three, two, one. Oh my God. Wait, they're trying. Yes. I'm going to let her win. Wait, this is way too easy if we're going first. Okay, stand down. Now, you can go. She's definitely got some arms, I'll tell you. Thanks for stopping in.
Thank you guys for having me.
Yeah, pain and gain. Woo hoo! You are you're amazing, ain't it?
Thank you.
Yeah, lovely. Lovely. Really lovely. And and it must have been fun. Quite a fun cast.
It was a fun cast. Yes. There's Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, and me. Yes. There he is. You got the wrong BMW. It's two exact BMWs. I told you to check the license plate. It was an honest mistake. So we thought it was the same car. It looked exactly the same. I can deal with his impotence. I cannot deal with your incompetence.
What was it working with Mark Wahlberg?
It's kind of funny because I'm reading lines with Mark Wahlberg and I'm trying to pretend like everything's cool, but inside I'm going, ah.
Right. Yeah, you shouldn't have done that on the outside. Glad you kept it on the inside.
I kept it on the inside, but now everybody gets to see that. Yeah, yeah. My first day on set, um, we were shooting in some very weird neighborhood, like dangerous neighborhood. In Miami, there's a few of those. Right. There's a few. Yeah, and I was wearing like a little mini skirt and I was walking on and talking on the phone. I kinda went off somewhere because I wasn't aware. And suddenly this black escalate pulls up and Mark lowers the window and he's like, hey, what are you doing here? It's dangerous here. Go back into the trailer. So that was my first encounter with him. This is what you said.
And you were working out obviously as well 'cause you you always always look amazing, but for this movie did you have to do even more?
Uh, did I I had to do even more because actually Michael asked me to gain weight for the role.
Wow.
I know that doesn't happen very often. The first two weeks were awesome. You know, you eat everything, everything's great. But then it kinda becomes force-feeding at some point. And then I also had to start lifting weights because to Right. To make it all proportional in the upper half of the body as well.
And then the chubbies you'll get used to that and then you'll just wanna keep eating.
Uh, yeah, no because I had to drink this shake that has 5,000 calories in it a day.
5,000 calories in one shake.
Yes. And it's disgusting on another level.
I don't even know how that's still liquid with 5,000 calories. It's not. It's concrete.
Yeah, basically drinking concrete. It's a rock.
We do have like a pain and gain little game that we're going to. Oh. What's worth the pain to get the gain? Okay. A dentist appointment for teeth whitening.
Yes, worth it. It's it's worth it.
Okay. Good. Wearing high heels all day. Let's see, they're quite What's the inch on them?
Totally worth it. I live in high heels. I have no idea but they're pretty high.
What it's like two three inches? I see that just I don't I really don't know how all you women do that. That's just that's that's crazy.
We have special abilities that you guys don't.
The cold feeling of a spray tan.
Worth it.
Is it?
Better than the sun.
See, that's something I've never been able to even think of doing 'cause I just I feel like it'd be sticky. It lasts for like three seconds, four seconds. Not for me. It's really worth it. The sun is not that good for you. Early morning workouts.
No.
No?
No. That was shocking. Early morning anything. Not a good thing.
Really not a morning person?
No.
What is your workouts of choice? What do you do to
I lift weights.
Is it It do now, is it really? How do you do?
I do. I do. I lift weights. Yeah, yeah. I lift weights. It's me sitting in the gym with all the boys who are lifting 200 pounds and me sitting next to them with like 5 pounds. Oh.
And they instantly lift more as you walk into the room. Quick, switch it up. Is she looking? Well, pain and gain. Congratulations.
Thank you so much. It's gonna be amazing for you. It will be and I'm very excited about this film. It's a great big times ahead. Freakin' funny movie and I'm so excited. I love it.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Bar Paly
Star of 'Pain & Gain' and interviewee
- Mark Wahlberg
Co-star in 'Pain & Gain'
- Dwayne Johnson
Co-star in 'Pain & Gain'
- Anthony Mackie
Co-star in 'Pain & Gain'
- Michael Bay
Director of 'Pain & Gain'
- Oliver Trevena
Host of the interview
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