10 Actors Who Went Unnecessarily Muscular For Movie Roles

2. Arnold Schwarzenegger – Howard Langston (Jingle All The Way)

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Any film where Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t playing either a cyborg assassin sent back in time from an apocalyptic future to prevent the saviour of the human race from being born or a man competing for the title of Mr. Universe could probably be included on this list – but asking an audience to believe Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the body he still had in '96, would ever be an overworked Minneapolis mattress salesman, is probably asking a little too much. At least in Kindergarten Cop he was supposed to be a tough, undercover police detective – not that I’ve ever seen a police detective with a body like his.

Perhaps the reason he was always unable to find time for his nine-year-old son and missed his karate class graduation was because he was too busy pumping iron and oiling up his many bulging muscles, and had nothing to do with being a workaholic mattress salesman after all?

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