While discussing the physical transformation he underwent in order to play Harald Sigurdsson in “Vikings: Valhalla,” Leo Suter told Netflix.com that he actually finds it much easier to build muscle than to grow hair.

“Well, that’s one of the other funny things. You can build muscle, and if you work hard and go to the gym more often, you’ll get bigger. You have some control over it,” explained Suter. “Hair, on the other hand, you have to sit, wait, hope and eat your crusts. In many respects, growing the hair and the beard was much harder than growing the body.” Suter also discussed how he spent the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic just working out on Zoom with a physical trainer named Pat Henry, eventually building up the impressive physique that would define Sigurdsson’s ferocity on the battlefield.

Suter also joked that “everyone looked a little bit like a Viking” by the end of quarantine and admitted that he didn’t even realize his hair was curly until he grew into his Viking style. Although there are no doubt plenty of people out there who would rather work on a beard than hit the gym three times a week, it’s clear that Leo Suter found the workouts to be the easiest part of the ordeal.

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