His physique...


There have been a lot of comments about how skinny he looks. Tiffani Thiesen commented that Perry is skinnier than she is. And some have criticized that his slender form made Dylan's rep as a 'bad boy' hard to swallow. But I dunno...he doesn't look skin-and-bones to me, more like skinny-but-ripped (e.g. Chris Meloni in the early '1st In Ten' part of his career). I also noticed that he was able to keep his slim figure unlike Priestly and Zeirling in the later part of BH 90210.
So what do you think? Skin-and-bones or skinny-but-muscular?

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No muscle what so ever, total skin and bones. And yes, this did make his bad boy image tough to swallow. Bet he couldn't beat up Brenda

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What's his diet secret?

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nokamie hey nice insight, im a fan of Luke Perry and I really think he is the best actor out of all of them. Seeing his departure in the episode One Wedding a Funeral clearly showed the guy can act and he's not just a pretty face.

- but here's the thing. IF he left after season 2 while the show's early success was so hot, do you know how many loyal fans would probably stop watching? A lot, thus the rating could possibly go down. Meaning Arron Spelling and the creators would have to wave tons more money in his face to stay. This happens all the time on tv series when a popular actor and character leaves or wants to leave the show.

- people need to understand its not that Luke, and many other good looking actors try to avoid their young attractive image, they just accept it, and hope to take better and more challenging roles. Its all about the craft of acting and taking what you can get for the paycheck, and hoping that one big role does come along that breaks them out of that boyish image. For Luke, it unfortunately never came.

...So Luke stayed like the rest of them did until that Season 6 when his wife was killed in that episode. Only to return later on. I just think he chose smaller roles because no big name movie studio or director would give him a chance. His small role in The 5th Element was the biggest budgeted movie he's ever done, but again that was a small role. I wish he was in that movie more.

...imagine Luke acting opposite Leonardo DiCaprio or Robert DeNiro, that I would pay to see.

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He was skin and bones for the first couple of seasons but you could see in season five he was broader in the shoulders, like he had a little more lean muscle going on.

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He was thin, but he always struck me as being a rather athletic type.

I remember in 90210, he popped some dude boxer style that was messing with him. And while I can't confirm what his real life abilities are, he strikes me as the type that could take care of himself if he had to?

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well they had him doing heroin on 90210 and probably other drugs but I don't think that this was Perry's actual diet secret. There is photo of him shirtless on web where he does have a tiny gut.

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5'9 and 95 pounds, smoker and drinker. some tough guy.

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His physique is similar to Michael Fassbender and I imagine if he trained and got really ripped, his body would be like Bruce Ll who had a similar frame. He had muscles and was toned, he worked a manual job before he was cast I believe.

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