Sure, IO Interactive actually scanned Lenny Kravitz’s unimaginable sculpted abs for his 007 First Gentle character mannequin

It was a tricky Thursday for IO Interactive and ol’ Jimmy B, because the reveal of 007 First Gentle’s first villain, performed by singer Lenny Kravitz, leaked forward of its supposed drop throughout The Recreation Awards. Typically the contents of this stuff cannot be contained by YouTube scheduling instruments or, within the case of Kravitz’s villain Bawma, human-made materials—as Andy famous in our preliminary information story, Bawma’s “spectacularly chiselled abs” are on outstanding show within the trailer.

And sure, they’re the true deal.

Earlier within the day Kravitz confirmed up in particular person to an occasion held by IO Interactive to spend a couple of minutes speaking about his first videogame function and his well-known exercise routines. “You seem like an superior videogame character already,” the host stated, singling out his abs.

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“I strive,” stated Lenny Kravitz, much more humbly than I’d if I used to be 61 years outdated and actually seemed like Lenny Kravitz.

Resident Evil actor Milla Jovovich, who was additionally on stage to advertise her function as the subsequent Hitman Elusive Goal, needed to get in on the abs speak, asking “they’re based mostly on actuality, proper?”

“Sure they’re,” Kravitz stated. “That is not a physique double.”

It seems that ‘based mostly on actuality’ is definitely underselling IO Interactive’s dedication to authenticity with 007 First Gentle. In an interview with artwork director Rasmus Poulsen, I confirmed that Kravitz lent not simply his voice and movement seize to the function of Bawma, however a physique scan as nicely.

“It’s a scan,” Poulsen confirmed. “Lenny’s abs are famend, as they need to be.”

IO labored with Kravitz to outline the look of the character and his vogue, too.

“He is bigger than life, and after we had been designing Aleph, this harmful cesspool of crime and shady dealings, amongst these husks of rotting corpses of ships, a really harmful however adventurous place, we knew we would have liked a personality with a vibrant character who may really feel bigger than life. He introduced that, and you will see it with the costume: he appears like a rockstar chief of this place, and we had been refining the character and designing costumes with Lenny over just a few months to land this bigger than life second for the sport but in addition for us as a studio.”