Take a good look at young Taylor Lautner – the star of the Twilight movies is, apparently, the future of male acting. It’s all to do with the size of your pecs these days whether you get cast and signing up for that action pic means months of military style training and a diet of nails – all those young hopefuls on the short-list to replace Tobey Maguire as Spiderman had better be pressing up to their personal trainer right now.

The number of amazing torsos on show in Hollywood movies has been boosted by the current swords and sandals revival, but then some blockbuster hopefuls should have spent more time beefing up their script rather than their leading man (Prince of Persia: Sands of Time). And those actors worried about getting sand kicked in their face should just look at Robert Pattinson for proof that lean and lanky is still popular with movie fans.

One actor who’s done a few press-ups in his time for the sake of a film role is slightly scary Brit Tom Hardy. He’s been talking to Collider.com about being the new Mad Max, but rather than giving that amazingly buff bod he had in Bronson a second outing we should expect something like “a hungry wolf,” whatever that means. Maybe he’s talking Taylor Lautner again.