The diet that made Rodrigo Santoro lose about 8 kilos to live character –

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If maintaining a diet is a difficult task, imagine doing it in Italy, the land of pizza, pasta and ice cream. This was the case of the extremely talented actor Rodrigo Santoro. In Programa do Jô, on TV Globo, last Friday (9), he said that he had to lose 6 to 8 kilos to play Jesus Christ in the movie “Ben-Hur”, currently showing in Brazilian cinemas.

“Diet in Italy is no fun,” he said. According to him, instead of pasta and other delicacies from southern Italy – the region where the film was shot, he had to eat “chicory and fava beans”. “When I broke the diet after a month, I almost cried eating pasta,” he said.

Santoro also stated that the work was a kind of “internal diving experience”, since he discovered many things about himself during the recordings. In addition to giving himself body and soul to the characters, Rodrigo has said in previous interviews that he practices yoga and meditation to be more focused, deal with anxiety and suffer less.