Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner are known for their bangin’ bodies, but the romantic co-stars of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past took things to a whole new level when they battled it out by on-set pumping.
“They are actually both really intense hard workers and both athletes by nature,” director Mark Water said at the Hollywood premiere this week. “They would actually get very competitive with each other because Matthew pumps himself up by doing push-ups before every take. Eventually Jennifer started to do push-ups too, and there was one-handed push ups, who could beat the other person? They were all pushing each other out and I was sitting there with my big belly from eating Dunkin Donuts going ‘guys look we have to do a take please.’”
Garner, despite carrying baby number two in her belly, didn’t want to be out-done by her male counterpart and thus sweated it out on-set, too.
“We had to pick up a shot, when I was six months pregnant, and Matthew did push-ups all the time before to get himself pumped up,” Garner explained. “We were picking up this shot one day and so he stopped down, jumped down, and started doing his push ups. I just said ‘I am sick of watching you do these’ so I just matched him.”
However, Mr. McConaughey (who is just as famous for working out shirtless) said it was actually Garner who put the hard word on him.
“I didn’t get her doing them. She got me doing them so I would hop down and do ten or so (push-ups) before a scene to just kind of break a little bit of a sweat. She would bop down and do fifteen and she started upping it every single time,” he argued. “Its more mental actually than physical for when you are doing it on a daily basis when I am working. It’s just about a little physical excursion — kind of loosens up my brain and helps me be more creative.”
So who won the war?
“Matthew,” Water said confidently.
And even though McConaughey was pretty laid back over the battle of the sexes, when it came to finding someone to match his top-notch abs it seems that’s when the inner-diva came out.
According to the director, of the actor/Sexiest Man Alive title-holder didn’t give the green-light to any of the male models they had try-out for the part of his body-double.
“Matthew’s abs are trademarked. We had a long shot we needed a body-double for but he didn’t approve anyone,” Waters told Tarts at the premiere in Hollywood on Monday. “Nobody matched up or had abs as good. I made him lift up his shirt, and I decided Matthew really does have the best.”
Speaking of the best, McConaughey told Tarts that since becoming a father last year life couldn’t be better.
“I’ve got more stuff to do now, more stuff to fill the days,” he said with a smile. “I’m probably having more fun because my favorite people to hang with are Levi and Levi’s mom. We totally rock, we jam.”
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