This is hilarious! ROTFL!!!
Here's more...eh maybe he didn't juice after all:
"To play Achilles, Pitt agreed to the most aggressive workout schedule he has ever endured."
"I started with a trainer seven months before filming began and continued the sessions during the shoot. When I read the script I realized Achilles was this Greek golden boy -- and we all know how much the Greeks prided themselves in their physicality. I owed it to the picture to get myself in the best shape I could."
Pitt says these past four months he has only "dabbled in the gym. I'm just not a gym kind of guy. I prefer sitting on the porch with my dog."
LOS ANGELES -- One of the highlights of the upcoming epic "Troy" is the fight scene between the two heroes: Achilles (played by Brad Pitt) and Hector (Eric Bana). Director Wolfgang Petersen and the actors decided early on that they didn't want to use stunt doubles for the scene, so the actors spent six months prior to shooting training and getting in shape. Once they were on set they spent another six months learning the choreography for the key scene -- which was shot without the warriors wearing helmets, so that their faces are constantly in full view.
Not only did they not use stunt doubles, but Petersen also insists that they didn't use wireworks for Achilles' trademark move, a high jump combined with a slash of his knife in his opponent's shoulder. It's actually in doing this move for the film's opening fight scene that Pitt, ironically, twisted his Achilles tendon, forcing him to wear a cast and sit out from shooting for nearly 10 weeks.
Physically, Pitt prepared for the role with a year of intense training. "The first three months were daunting and not fun at all." It included two to three hours in the gym, two additional hours of sword work and four high-protein, low-carb meals a day. As a result, he gained about 10 pounds of brawn. "It was grueling," Pitt says.
Pitt gave up smoking as he spent months building himself up to play Achilles in Troy.
He said: "I had to quit smoking. I'm now happy about it because these things were killing me. But at first I was really missing my cigarettes.
"The withdrawal was so hard that I was ready to kill—which was actually helpful for the role I was playing."
His trainer told him he wouldn't be able to get through the training if he smoked: "The trainer warned me that every day would be unpleasant. He was right."