Dax Shepard Channels Wolverine with Bulked-Up Physique, Jokes About Marvel Call

Dax Shepard looked the spitting image of Wolverine as he displayed his bulked-up physique on Instagram, just days after he joked that he was ‘waiting for a call from Marvel’. 

The American actor, 50, who gained two stone during the COVID-19 pandemic, appears to have been hitting the gym hard as he showed off his ripped physique in a pair of swimming trunks. 

It comes after Dax was joined by couple, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, on his Armchair Expert podcast on Monday, where he jokingly revealed that he has been waiting 10 years for Marvel to call so he would have an ‘excuse to get huge’. 

He said: ‘In quarantine, I said to [my wife, Kristen Bell], “I’ve been waiting for 10 years for Marvel to call so that I’d have an excuse to get huge.” 

He continued: ‘And they’re not gonna call. That ship sailed. I’m 46. They’re not gonna call. So, I just have to do it for my own amusement.’

The actor also shared that he hits the gym six days a week and was able to put on some serious muscle by staying strict with a diet and workout routine. 

He also added that he relied on lifting heavy weights, drinking protein shakes, and ‘going bananas’, and joked that he also took heavy testosterone injections. 

However, he noted how working out hasn’t just helped his physical health but also his mental health. 

He said: ‘Mentally, I love it because it makes me far more on fire to be alive. I was depressed after (my 2017 movie) CHiPs. I was literally retiring. That was the plan. I’m out. All of a sudden, I was on fire to work. This is the version I enjoy.’ 

The Parenthood star revealed that while he typically weighs 13 stone, he now weighs up to 15 stone, adding: ‘I spent my whole life as a medium boy, and now I’m a big boy, and I like it.’

It comes after Dax and Kristen tried to move on from the recent controversy about their marriage with a hilarious story about their ill-fated attempts to decorate for the holidays.

While appearing on Tuesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the married couple recounted how Dax’s best friend could have been seriously injured after he nearly fell off their roof while hanging their Christmas lights.

They had turned to Dax’s pal for a cheaper alternative after baulking at a shocking $17,000 quote for putting up their holiday decorations. 

Jimmy prompted the story after saying someone who lived near the couple told him that they already had their decorations up well before Thanksgiving, and Dax clarified that they went up the day after Thanksgiving.

After the host asked if Dax hung the lights and decorations himself, he replied hesitantly, ‘I did,’ before adding, ‘But then my wife made too much money, and now I don’t.’

He explained that the couple — who came under fire from fans for an ‘insensitive’ post Kristen made about Dax’s vow never to murder her — he explained that they wanted to have even more extreme decorations for their house in Nashville, Tennessee, but they thought the $17,000 it would cost for professionals to do the job was ridiculous.

‘It is crazy how much it costs if you don’t do it yourself,’ Jimmy interjected. ‘It’s like you’re being punished by Santa or something.’

Dax added, ‘It’s as if they’re gonna make a bronze bust of someone in your front yard.’

The couple decided to forego the professional and have the decorations put up on the cheap by Dax’s best friend, whom they would fly out from Detroit.

Instead of the $17,000 they were quoted, Dax said he offered his friend — who knew his way around the exterior of a house after being a roofer for 25 years — just $3,000 for the job.

Dax said it would be a ‘windfall’ for his buddy, before complicating the picture when he mentioned that his friend also hadn’t been up on a roof in nearly two decades.

‘And he’s your closest friend, whom you’re paying less than 1/5th of the job’s value,’ Jimmy said to laughter from the audience.

Dax admitted he was worried his best friend could fall off the roof, so he called up him up before his flight to share his second thoughts.

Dax recalled telling him, ‘I don’t want to be delivering your eulogy and saying, “Some people say I saved your life by sending you to treatment. But I definitely murdered you by having you put Christmas lights up at my house.’

Jimmy added that it would have been because he was ‘too cheap.’

Then Dax shocked the audience by revealing that his friend did fall from the roof — but he was saved at the last minute by the safety ropes he had brought along.

The couple’s funny story comes after they were engulfed in controversy over the offhand way Kristen recounted Dax’s past pledge not to kill her while celebrating their anniversary.

The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star wrote, ‘Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me: “I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I’m heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would.”❤️’

The post was almost universally panned on social media, where it was described as a ‘wildly sad and insensitive’ thing to say.

Kristen was taken to task by domestic violence survivors and their advocates in particular.

In the wake of the post, other incidents in which Dax joked about harming his wife came to light, while insiders shared disturbing details of their turbulent marriage with the Daily Mail exclusively.