#13. TEDDY BEAR (MADS MATTHIESEN, 2012)
#13. TEDDY BEAR (MADS MATTHIESEN, 2012)Kim Kold is enormous. At 6 feet, 3 inches and 308 pounds, he is a true real life hulk. But in Teddy Bear, Kim hides a very quiet and insecure heart. He’s terrible with women and just wants to find true love.
Kold stars as Dennis, a 38 year old body builder who has never had a girlfriend and lives at home with his mother. After his uncle marries a girl in Thailand, Dennis decides to travel over there – believing that love is easier to find in a new country. After the huge culture shock and many awkward encounters, he unexpectedly meets a Thai woman named Toi and starts to find a cure to his loneliness.
Kold is a former football goalkeeper who had to leave the sport because of a serious injury. While working in the gym doing rehabilitation training, he discovered a new found passion for bodybuilding and eventually built himself up to become the Danish National Bodybuilding Champ in 2006.
Kold is not a trained actor, but he is able to open up and paint a very human portrait of the man that exists behind the muscles. It’s a unique take that honestly captures not only the world of bodybuilding, but also the individual that lies behind the stereotypes.
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