Less than a minute into Rooster‘s pilot episode, John C. McGinley makes his grand entrance — shirtless, sweaty, and beaming with confidence. It’s his first of many revealing scenes, and though McGinley’s character Walter Mann proudly describes himself as “jacked,” when the 66-year-old actor read the script and realized he’d “be practically naked for the run of the show,” he took action.
“I hired a guy to help me shed about 44 pounds, purely out of vanity. Not out of serving the character, just as a bullheaded jackass,” McGinley told DECIDER over Zoom. “I wanted to not look like I was buckled by gravity. So I didn’t eat anything for five months. I had bone broth with truffle balls in it for the fat. And then I had about four ounces of whatever you could put in your palm every afternoon. So I don’t know about being jacked, so
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