Between his congenital bone situation and his well-above-average peak, Olivier Richters had the deck stacked in opposition to him when it got here to constructing muscle. In 2008, when Richters was 19 years previous, he started weight coaching to compensate for a leg damage he sustained whereas enjoying basketball — on the time, he weighed simply 176 kilos (or 80 kilograms). By the point he underwent the process to appropriate the expansion of his ribs in 2011, he had packed on over 50 kilos (a lot of which gave the impression to be muscle).
Although he misplaced a few of his progress throughout his five-month restoration course of, he nonetheless managed to move 275 kilos by 2013 — and when he first met the Mountain in 2016, he was weighing in at over 330 kilos. As of 2024, Richters’ Instagram bio claims he at present weighs 353 kilos.
With out making a devoted effort to pack muscle onto his already recognizable physique, the actor would not have been capable of benefit from the distinctive profession he does right this moment. “The extra I bought in proportion with my size and measurement, the extra curiosity folks confirmed,” he defined on Instagram, recalling that this transformation opened doorways for him within the TV and business industries earlier than he made the leap to movie.