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\u201cI knew that based on the Stephen King book, Ben Richards was a tank,\u201d Powell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018Okay, I got to be a bit of a weapon.\u2019 And so that\u2019s why I trained the way I trained on this. I put on a lot of muscle. A lot of it was functional. A lot of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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