Film role has Adam in a tight corner
He’s grappled with Brad Pitt and knocked out Corrie’s Jack Duckworth but in his new film, Adam Fogerty comes up against a more formidable foe – Lycra.
The 24st actor said his biggest battle in wrestling film Walk Like A Panther was getting into skin-tight costumes.
He sa id : “I wa sn’ t overjoyed with the Lycra, especially with my figure.
“If they’d got me in my 20s I’d have looked good in it.
“Now I look like a cross between Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks.”
Standing 6ft 4ins, Adam really is a man mountain. A former professional boxer and rugby league player for St Helens, he’s not to be messed with.
But the dad of two insists he is a gentle giant who is wrapped around his wife Deborah’s little finger.
Adam, 42, explained: “I’ve played rough, tough sports but I don’t consider myself a rough, tough person. I’m a big softie. Once a woman gets us under their thumb, that’s it.”
Adam got his acting break playing a South African heavyweight in the 1992 film The Power of One.
He played a bare-knuckle fighter in Guy Ritchie’s film Snatch, also starring Pitt.
In Corrie, Adam played a debt collector who duffs up Jack Duckworth, played by the late Bill Tarmey.
Walk Like A Panther follows the story of veteran wrestlers who suit up one last time when their pub faces closure and is out now.