Frank Grillo Claims There’s Rampant Steroid Use in Hollywood: 'They All Do It'

Frank Grillo is pulling backmost nan curtain connected really he maintains his physique — and really galore actors hole for on-screen roles.

The 60-year-old Superman actor appeared connected Men's Health’s Strong Talk podcast connected Sept. 10, and candidly discussed antecedently utilizing steroids to thief pinch his beingness transformations for superhero films.

During nan episode, he explained that six years ago, he learned his testosterone levels were debased and he began utilizing replacement therapy, noting that nan medicine has helped him amended his betterment and slumber habits, arsenic good arsenic make him consciousness happier.

“There’s thing incorrect pinch utilizing those drugs,” Grillo said. “But let’s beryllium honorable astir it, that’s all. People will say, because I return testosterone, ‘You’re a cheater.’ I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, I’m 60, and I train each day.’ ”

“I’m an actor. I’m not nan linebacker for nan New York Giants. I’m not a competitory Olympic wrestler. I’m not playing for nan New York Knicks,” he continued. 

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“I’m not cheating astatine thing isolated from aging,” he said. “There’s thing incorrect pinch [it]. You get nan domiciled successful nan superhero movie, and you want to look for illustration a superhero, and you return immoderate Anavar, God bless you.” (Anavar, formally known arsenic Oxandrolone, acts for illustration nan hormone testosterone, and is utilized “to thief support muscle, relieve bony pain, aliases beforehand weight summation successful definite people,” WebMD.)

“You're gonna spell connected a rhythm aliases 2 and you're gonna look a definite measurement for a definite role,” he remarked. 

He continued and claimed that different actors who person quickly developed different physiques are apt besides taking steroids. “They do it by, you know, taking Anavar and Deca and each nan things that now are prescribable by doctors, and which is bully because astatine slightest it tin beryllium monitored by a aesculapian professional,” he said. (Deca, formally known arsenic Nandrolone, is “an anabolic steroid utilized to dainty anemia, osteoporosis and different conditions,” per nan Cleveland Clinic.) 

"But nary of those are earthy bodies,” he added. “Those guys don’t locomotion astir looking 1 measurement for illustration six months retired of nan twelvemonth and past each of a abrupt they person 35lbs of musculus connected them. We each cognize what they’re doing. They mightiness not want to opportunity it, but they each do it. Everybody."

The character is known for showing disconnected his physique successful different superhero franchises. He stars arsenic Rick Flag Sr. successful HBO Max's Peacemaker in nan DC Universe (DCU) and arsenic Brock Rumlow/Crossbones successful Captain America: The Winter Soldier successful nan Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and is seen successful action-packed conflict scenes successful some franchises.

In nan 2014 MCU film, he has an aggravated conflict pinch Chris Evans’ Captain America. He besides goes toe-to-toe pinch John Cena’s Peacemaker successful play 2 of nan DCU series. 

“I had nary problem beating nan crap retired of either 1 of them," he antecedently joked pinch PEOPLE. “I mean … I don't know. They were some easy pickings.”