Who plays dudes body in free?

Who plays dudes body in free?

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Free Guy, the action comedy movie starring Ryan Reynolds as a regular dude who discovers he's actually living in a shoot-'em-up video game, is finally out after a lengthy pandemic-induced delay. In order to help promote the movie, Reynolds took to his YouTube channel to show viewers a glimpse of Dude, his swole alter ego who looks an awful lot like Reynolds, except for the fact that his body is Incredibly Hulk levels of jacked.

Reynolds played the entire thing straight-faced in the video while not-so-subtly parodying the body transformations that Hollywood's leading men go through in order to prepare for action roles. "I start every day with a protein bomb made exclusively of human muscle," he said. "It's completely organic and illegal."

Of course, in reality, that's Reynolds' head digitally superimposed onto someone else's torso. And now we know the identity of Dude's body from the neck down: Aaron Reed, an actor and former competitive bodybuilder with a background in WWE.

"What we did was early on, we had this idea, Ryan and I," explained director Shawn Levy in a recent interview. "This character was not in the script, but we had this idea, what if Ryan has to fight Ryan? But what if it’s an upgrade? What if it’s Ryan 2.0? Taller, more muscular, more hairless, more streaks and tips hair, so we literally cast a bodybuilder out of LA. And his body was just sick and massive, and he made Ryan look like a fragile little feather."

Reed, for his part, "had a blast" working with Reynolds and the rest of the crew on Free Guy, even if his face never actually appears in the movie. "Working with the stunt guys was so fun," he recently told Bodybuilding.com. "Those guys are my speed because they're always wrestling and messing around. Whenever we had down time, I'd ask them to show me cool stuff."

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He added, however, that the hiatus meant he had to get his "Dude" physique back in an accelerated timeline: "We'd filmed everything in the summer of 2019, and then had to come back in January of 2020 to film additional scenes," he said. "I was in awesome shape at the peak of summer, but every year I cruise-control in November and December. So when I found out we were coming back, I only had about three weeks really to get in shape."

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The movie sees Ryan Reynolds star as Guy who is a non-player character (NPC) in an open world video game called Free City who becomes self-aware of the fictional game he’s living in. But people are desperate to know who it is that plays Dude.

Dude is another character that gets placed into the game, Dude is dropped in there to stop Guy from making himself the game’s hero.

Dude seems to be largely based on Ryan Reynolds himself, though Ryan is known for his muscular body, his character is on another level. However, these characters totally work for the video game-inspired narrative.

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Who plays Dude in Free Guy?

  • Aaron W. Reed is the actor who plays Dude in Free Guy – a super hench version of Ryan Reynolds.

Aaron W Reed is a bodybuilder-turned-actor and is cast as Dude, this character was decided early on in the creative process and it has been revealed how the character of Dude came about.

“What we did was early on, we had this idea, Ryan and I. This character was not in the script, but we had this idea, what if Ryan has to fight Ryan? But what if it’s an upgrade? What if it’s Ryan 2.0? Taller, more muscular, more hairless, more streaks and tips hair, so we literally cast a bodybuilder out of LA. And his body was just sick and massive, and he made Ryan look like a fragile little feather

So, we cast this dude, Aaron Reed, and Aaron did the whole movie with dots on his face. Those are tracking markers. Later then, we put Ryan in a motion capture device called the egg. It all sounds very futuristic. We were like, “Ryan, enter the egg.” And it’s a machine where Ryan then did every line as Dude looking at lights in the motion capture egg, and then we digitally cut and morphed Ryan’s real face on Aaron’s body.”

“and it really was as simple as a straightforward copy and paste job involving a hulking a bodybuilder and an A-list movie star. So, we cast this dude, Aaron Reed, and Aaron did the whole movie with dots on his face.”

Bodybuilder actor revealed!

Aaron Reed, the actor who plays Dude, is a professional bodybuilder and an ex-WWE wrestler from Tampa, Florida. He is 6’7” tall and he is one of the tallest bodybuilders in the world, and is even officially the tallest bodybuilder to win a Men’s Physique competition.

Aaron shared a picture of him on his Instagram where he can be seen at the premiere of the movie. In the caption he reminisces on the character he played and says that “Dude will never be forgotten”.

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