Henry Cavill Talks Getting Ripped For Immortals & Man Of Steel

First Published: October 31, 2011 6:00 PM EDT Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Henry Cavill chats with Access Hollywood at the Immortals junket on October 29, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Some actors might get a little help from the costume department when portraying a hero on the big screen, but British actor Henry Cavill, star of Immortals and the upcoming Zack Snyder-directed Man of Steel, pushed his body to the max to get a hero-worthy physique. We did a lot of training. I was training for six months. I started before I finished The Tudors, Henry told Access Hollywood at the junket for his latest movie Immortals. I was up at four in the morning, doing a couple of hours there and then a days work. But as soon as I got off The Tudors, then we could do the full training. It went up to about eight hours a day by the time it was February, he continued. The 28-year-old actor said he endured hundreds of bruises and cuts while shooting the adventure film set in the world of Greek gods. His Immortals wounds appear to have healed and Henrys physique is a hot topic online as shirtless photos of him on the Man of Steel set have cropped up online for the last two weeks. Despite the sexy shirtless shots, the actor warns that the movie wont be a super hero flesh-fest. Thats only once sequence, a small sequence in the movie. Its just people like to take a lot of photographs of it when they get the opportunity, he explained. Its an essential thing for something like Superman. Youve got to prove to everyone that its a super man, its not all fake, not all smoke and mirrors. According to Henry, his caped hero has more abs than the average comic book character. Its an eight pack! he said of his ripped mid-section. Immortals hits theaters on November 11 and Man of Steel is slated for release on June 14, 2013. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.