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Metro recently sat down with Jamie Bell for an interview about him avoiding the gym and getting into shape for his new film The Eagle by walking his dog.

Jamie Bell: The only physical exercise I do is walk the dog

Billy Elliott‘s child star Jamie Bell talks to Metro about avoiding the gym and getting into shape for his new film The Eagle by walking his dog.

A big pair of black-rimmed spectacles enters the hotel room. Somewhere behind them is a small, mild-mannered Jamie Bell. Seemingly dressed in grey school trousers, Bell flaunts a ‘geek chic’ exterior that gives no hint of the butched up bod he unleashes in The Eagle.

It’s a swords’n’sandals adventure set in Roman England that’s causing this one-time skinny unknown who beat 2,000 hopefuls to play ballet wonderboy Billy Elliot to be re-labeled as Billingham’s answer to Gladiator. So, how does it feel to be the new Russell Crowe?

‘Erm, I’m not really that at all, to be honest,’ says Bell, protectively shuffling his scuffed high tops on to the coffee table in front of him, ‘There was no trainer or on-set gym happening.

‘We wanted to try to be as authentic as possible and my character, Esca, is a slave.

‘If we bulked him up, it would look completely ridiculous – particularly on me, because I’m a tiny guy.’

Come on, Bell, those biceps don’t grow on trees. ‘I’m so not a keep fit person,’ he insists.

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And many thanks to Philip for linking me to the article.