Tom Holland Tries Extreme Bodybuilding Trick for Shirtless Spider-Man Scene

Spider-Man star Tom Holland discovered the hard way that not every Hollywood body-transformation trick is worth trying.

While filming the latest installment in the franchise, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the 30-year-old actor revealed he experimented with a controversial bodybuilding technique to make his muscles appear more defined for a shirtless scene. The results, however, were more snippy than shredded.

“I had tried to do that stupid dehydration thing for that scene, where I didn’t drink any water the day before, and then I drank loads of water the day before that,” the actor told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published August 3.

Holland admitted that he attempted to dehydrate himself before filming a Russian bathhouse scene with actress Florence Pugh, 30, who reprises her role as Yelena Belova in the film.