10 Things You Didn't Know About The Cabin In The Woods

6. They Had To Try Hard To Conceal Fran Kranz's Buffness

From William Shatner's girdle beneath his Star Trek uniform to the sculpted muscles on Michael Keaton's batsuit, filmmakers across the generations have had to find creative ways to make the average physiques of their heroes look like ultra-buff supermen. The Cabin In The Woods, unusually, had the opposite problem.

Marty, the stoner slacker who fulfills the "fool" archetype in Cabin's sacrificial ritual, was played by Whedon fave Fran Kranz, a veteran of Dollhouse who would go on to appear in Whedon's homemade take on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Kranz, however, did not come with the build of your typical slacker. In fact, according to Whedon and Goddard, he was "ripped like muscular Jesus", maybe more so than the film's "athlete" and future Thor: Hemsworth.

As a result, the film had to go as out of its way to hide Kranz's ripped body as others do to build up their out-of-shape stars. He was given a deliberately overly baggy wardrobe and, in the scene in which all of his castmates take off their shirts and leap in the lake, Marty remains standing fully clothed on the dock.

Really, though, given that the movie is all about subversion and Marty not being the stoner fool that he appears, would it have hurt the themes to give us a look at that ripped body?