Aaron Taylor-Johnson Talks Buff Godzilla Body (His Fifty Shades Director Wife Likes It Too!)

Actor reveals he did military training to bulk up

By Brett Malec May 09, 2014 8:57 PMTags
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays a soldier in his new movie Godzilla and he's got the hot body to prove it!

The super hunky actor, who already had a buff bod, says he bulked up even more for Godzilla by training just like real military men.

"I put on some weight for this movie and it sort of changed the way I physically looked and felt," Taylor-Johnson told us last night at the Hollywood premiere of his film. "I trained for it in a military boot camp sort of way: heavy weights and training. Just sort of the mentality of the military."

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And you can bet the 23-year-old's wife, Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson, likes his buff body too!

"It's good," she smiled while walking the red carpet with her man hand-in-hand.

Meanwhile, Taylor-Johnson said he had a blast doing intense stunts for the disaster flick.

"I had a great time," he told us. "I got to jump on things in military tanks and rode trains with missiles on them. I was in a helicopter for a couple of days. There were pretty epic moments throughout. I got to play big-time."