- Regé-Jean Page says his armor for “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” was “uncomfortable.”
- “You’re hot all day,” Page said. “You can’t sit down. The sweat goes nowhere.”
- Page has previously said that all his training for the film left him in excellent shape.
While Regé-Jean Page has credited “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” with getting him into excellent shape, the actor freely admits he won’t miss his onscreen costume: a suit of armor he called “the most uncomfortable outfit” he’s ever worn.
During an interview with BBC Radio 1 (via Entertainment Weekly) to promote the film, Page quipped he had made “the Robert Downey Jr. mistake,” referring to Downey Jr., who once said during “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman” he avoided wearing the cumbersome Iron Man armor by “Avengers: Endgame.” Instead, he opted for the special effects team to add the outfit later on.
“Like, filming in armor is not where you want to be,” said Page, adding, “You’re hot all day. You can’t sit down. The sweat goes nowhere — it just kind of hangs out. It becomes a scuba suit, just with your own juices. It was delicious.”
The actor previously discussed his “Dungeons & Dragons” costume with Variety at the 2023 Oscars in March.
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“Everything’s kind of digging into your ribs,” he explained. “You’re trying do these complicated fight sequences and nothing moves quite how it’s meant to. Chain mail. Plate armor? None of this is made for comfort.”
The upside for all of Page’s hard work training for the role of Xenk was an extremely fit physique.
“Coming into this, I got really, really good with the swords,” he said during a cast panel at Comic-Con in 2022. “It was lots and lots of stunts training, so my thighs were killing me, and I had the best ass of my life. It was just the best time you could possibly imagine on this job. I spent time training and slaying dragons.”
Audiences and critics also appeared to have a good time. “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” which currently has a 91% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, generated $71.5 million at the global box office over the weekend, according to Paramount, boding well for the film’s theatrical and the possibility of a sequel.
