![]() 6.McElhenney at the new season premiere for It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia earlier this month. “The League” returns for its third season Oct. The seventh season of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” premieres Sept. KROLL: You’ve got to do “The Machinist” next year. I want to be part of the DeNiros, the Bales, the Day-Lewises. MCELHENNEY: I want to be part of that conversation. KROLL: You’re the f-ing Daniel Day-Lewis of basic cable. MCELHENNEY: Even the nerds on “Big Bang Theory” are getting better looking. And since you said that I thought about it … everybody gets trimmer, and, you know. KROLL: Well you were talking about the theory that everybody gets better looking on TV as shows go on. You know what the most fun was, was getting rid of any shred of vanity. Most people would have a harder time losing it. And every day one of my meals was a high-calorie protein shake. And then every once in a while I would eat three donuts. ![]() But when you’re four months in it and you have to muscle down 1,000 calories for the third time or fourth time in a day and you have to either eat three chicken breasts, two cups of rice and two cups of vegetables - or one Big Mac - you start to see the Big Mac and realize it’s a lot easier to get down. ROB MCELHENNEY: As I started off I was doing it with chicken breast and rice and vegetables. To gain the weight, you ate five 1,000-calorie meals a day. Warning: The following discussion of every aspect of sudden weight gain gets very graphic. As he spoke with TheWrap and Kroll, McElhenney ate a sensible lunch of pasta and salad (pictured at right). McElhenney has already lost nearly half the weight in a month, after spending five months packing it on. ![]() His wife, Kaitlin Olson, was especially uninterested after having their first child last year.) ![]() (He tried to get the whole cast to join in the weight gain, but all passed. McElhenney noticed that characters always get better looking in later seasons, as storylines get more syrupy and their stars get richer.Īs his show entered its seven season, he decided sudden weight gain would be a perfect way to mock other shows and capsize the relentless vanity of his character, Mac. “Sunny” tears down sitcom conventions and aspires to make its characters as unlikeable as possible. (Left: McElhenney at his peak weight, courtesy of the actor.)īefore we get into it, a little background: We were on hand recently as Kroll talked to McElhenney about his weight gain – and left no question unturned. Rob McElhenney, star of FX’s “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” is thriving on the awkwardness he created by increasing his body mass by nearly a third – just because he thought it would be funny.įortunately, Nick Kroll of FX’s “The League” has no filter. It’s hard to know what to say when someone suddenly gains 50 pounds, especially when that someone isn’t a pregnant woman. ![]()
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