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Bradley Russell

The Iron Claw’s Zac Efron wrestled 20 matches in a day as Kevin Von Erich

The Iron Claw.

Zac Efron didn’t just look the part as hulking heavyweight Kevin Von Erich in wrestling biopic The Iron Claw – he even stepped into the ring and ran the ropes as a wrestler-in-training.

"The wrestling matches we would shoot start to finish," Efron tells GamesRadar+ of his intense filming for the role, which recreated some of the Von Erich clan’s legendary matches from the 1970s and 1980s in front of a real, live audience.

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