Poll Suggestion: Bodybuilders & Wrestlers in Movies

If this will be about bodybuilders only, then I suppose Arnold Schwarzenegger is the one.

@jeorj_euler​ I am not so sure, I just included David Prowse - Darth Vader !

Yeah, I forgot about him, because I've only really seen him A Clockwork Orange and, of course, Star Wars, maybe one other thing, but never in a documentary specifically about his bodybuilding work. He is British too, whereas I'm mostly familiar with cinema out of the United States.

By the way, as a little bit of trivia, I should point out that David Prowse was the only man on the set of Return of the Jedi strong enough while wearing the Darth Vader costume to lift up Ian McDiarmid (or the stunt double thereof) and overthrow the ruling class. The filmmakers were reluctant to even allow him onto the set in question, thus employing various alternative performers to don the suit throughout the production, out of misguided fears that he had had and would continue to have a blabber mouth when talking to the press.

@jeorj_euler​ 

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David Prowse

The Benny Hill Show (1969–1989)

@urbanemovies​ 

> any female wrestlers

Good question. Actually none came to my mind. I watched some G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) fights some decades ago and was not very impressed... I just recall 3 names: Chyna, The Lady of Rage and Matilda the Hun.

You are right, I do not remember why I included Stallone (by the same token I shoud have included Bruce Lee, too). This is a 2 years old suggestion that I made during my quarantine.

Just a thought, this list is really a professional wrestlers list. Why not keep it pure? If you want to expand the answer pool, at least limit it to Olympic wrestlers or amateur high school and college wrestlers, who went on to become celebrities.

It seems odd to throw in two competitive bodybuilders (Schwarzenegger and Ferrigno),  a NFL football player (Terry Crews) plus Sylvester Stallone (who is none of the above) into the mix.

This comment got me to thinking, its like mixing bananas, apples and oranges thinking they all are the same, when in reality they are quite different. It might be better to do a separate bodybuilder poll, as a face-off. I think it would seem less jumbled and not as much as a hodgepodge of choices.

@urbanemovies​ indeed, I will keep only the bodybuilders.

When?

@urbanemovies​ thanks, noted, I'll start with the bodybuilders, if this poll ever gets published I'll make the wrestlers version of it.