Enter my world...if you like.

I love love love Good Omens, and watching it made me want to see more of David Tennant. I then watched Doctor Who and Staged and am now working my way through everything he’s ever been in ever and he’s now my favourite actor. I think he’s a phenomenal actor, and I love all of his characters, but it’s also because he just seems like such a kind, friendly and goofy person. Everyone I’ve ever seen talk about him, in interviews and such, have only had good things to say. So I’m curious if you have a favourite thing about David Tennant? (Other than his flammability and willingness to be set on fire)

My first week on the Good Omens set, four years ago, I was in line to get food from the catering truck. Back in the pre-covid days you would see everyone from the show in the food line, from the carpenters and the drivers to the production assistants and the costume people. You normally don't see the actors, because they go back to their trailers and have their food (from the catering truck) brought to them there (this is not a stuck-up thing to do - mostly they are back in their trailers desperately going over their lines, or getting themselves into the headspace they'll act with). And if you do see fancy actors at the catering truck, oftentimes they'll be whisked to the front of the line.

But there, standing in the lunch line between a make-up lady and an electrician, was David Tennant. And everyone around felt more comfortable because he was saying up front that he was one of the people making the show, and that there wasn't any difference between what he was doing and what the electrician or the make-up lady were doing. We were in this together, all contributing to Good Omens.

We barely knew each other at that point, but I was certain then that I would like David, and that he was what my yiddish-speaking ancestors would have called a mensch. And the more I've got to know him, the more I've respected him as a person and as an actor. He's lovely.

Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.

When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I’ve you’ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a “look”.

Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn’t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a “look”.

The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a “look”.

Yeah, he is ripped, isn’t he?

Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of “water weight”. 

Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.

As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, “If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ‘Roll it!”

It’s the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.

According to experts, healthy body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables. 

Fitness model and professional bodybuilder Helmut Strebl also known as “World’s Most Shredded Man” as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%…

… But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one’s body for longer periods of time.

I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then…

There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration…

And let’s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as “Megarexia” or “Bigarexia”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia

Yeah, it’s a thing, but it’s barely talked about, since it’s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorder…