Bradley Cooper dreamed about being Solflex guy

Oh man, remember those Soloflex commercials?

The guys on those commercials were these such muscular perfection that you were tempted to pull out a credit card each time one of the spots came on. But you ended up not ordering it because you were so mesmerized by what was happening onscreen.

Well, Bradley Cooper was watching those commercials too. For his latest role in the upcoming feature film adaptation of The A Team, he’s developed a physique that could make one of his childhood dreams come true: “As the movie progressed, I got in increasingly better shape. There’s this one fight scene with Liam Neeson toward the end, where it’s, like, the apex of the work … I swear to God, it looked like my head was digitally superimposed onto someone else’s body. I was like, ‘This cannot be me—that’s the way I look?’ … ‘Cause as a kid I only fantasized about looking that way. Remember Soloflex commercials? That was huge when I was a kid. It was like, ‘I wanna be the Soloflex guy. Mom, can we get the Soloflex?’”

Towleroad.com has some pics from those classic ads!