Dave Bautista Says He’s ‘Killing’ Himself to Maintain 75-Pound Weight Loss

Actor and former WWE star Dave Bautista is opening up about his recent 75-pound weight loss.

“I got really big for a role, and it was uncomfortably big,” Bautista, 55, said during an interview published on Chris Van Vliet’s YouTube channel on Tuesday, September 10. “I was around 315 pounds, and I put the weight on really fast. … I packed it on with French fries and pancakes.

Bautista noted that the film in question was the 2023 psychological horror film Knock at the Cabin, in which he played Leonard, one of four people trying to convince a family to prevent the apocalypse by sacrificing one of their own.

Looking back at it, I probably overdid it. I was probably a little too big,” the retired wrestler said. “I put on an uncomfortable amount of weight and it took me forever to shed it off.

But shed it off, he did, as Bautista shared that he is now around 240 pounds.

The more I trimmed down, the better I felt,” he said. “And I also noticed the more I trimmed down, the better I looked on camera and the better I looked next to other actors. … Even at this weight … at 6’4” [and] 240 pounds, next to your typical actor I look like a gorilla, and it’s distracting.