Noah Centineo Unveils Jaw-Dropping Transformation With Shirtless Photo

Noah Centineo showed off his muscles in a shirtless photo as he prepares for his latest role as Ken Masters in the upcoming Street Fighter film adaptation.

By Gibson Johns Aug 25, 2025 7:12 PM
| Updated Aug 26, 2025 11:28 AM
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Watch: Noah Centineo Unveils Jaw-Dropping Transformation With Shirtless Photo

P.S. Noah Centineo is super jacked now.

The To All the Boys I Loved Before actor shared a new shirtless photo of himself that showed off all of the preparation he's put into his upcoming role as Ken Masters in the upcoming film adaptation of the popular video game series Street Fighter.

Noah wore black sweatpants with pink underwear peeking out as he flexed his arm and flaunted his six-pack abs in the mirror selfie posted to Instagram Aug. 25. But that wasn’t the only transformation he had in store for fans. Also on display was his newly dyed dirty blonde hair that fell to his shoulders, which he had pushed back with a headband.

The 29-year-old cheekily nodded to Street Fighter in the snap's caption, writing, "Road brawler."

Fans didn’t hold back with their reactions took to the comments to react to Noah's transformation reveal, with someone joking, "Did I miss a chapter??" and another person writing, "This is not the Noah Centineo I remember."

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A few of Noah's pals weighed in, too, with Rachel Zegler commenting, "NOW HANG ON-" and Lukas Gage writing, "omgggggg."

The Warfare actor's viral pic comes after he opened up about getting healthier and embracing his sobriety journey earlier this year.

“I was so unhappy,” Noah explained on the Chicks in the Office podcast in February. “I was able to pay my bills for the first time. I was completely financially stable and secure. I was working regularly, and I was doing a lot of drugs. Nothing crazy. I was doing drugs a lot. And drinking all the time, every day and I was young.”

“I was 20 years old and I had been doing that for a couple years,” he continued. “So, I had a career that I was proud of. I was making enough money to pay my rent and put a little bit away. You would think I should be super stoked and super happy, and I just wasn’t.”

Noah began his sobriety journey when he was 21 and, while he briefly started drinking while filming 2021's To All The Boys: Always and Forever, now he's sober again.

In fact, working out has been one of the things that has helped him grounded as of late.

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“Right now, I’m in one of those phases where I’m just not really doing anything and you just workout,” Noah shared. “And try and connect with yourself and take care of yourself as best as you can. Cause life’s trippy.”

Keep reading for more celebs who have transformed for roles...

Channing Tatum

The Magic Mike star's weight has fluctuated over the years, especially in 2024, as he got into character for two back-to-back movie roles.

He said on Instagram in March 2025 that he currently weighed 205 pounds—up from the 172 pounds he weighed for Roofman (pictured, right). Months before beginning production on that 2024 film, he shot the movie Josephine (pictured, left) and weighed 235 pounds for his role.

Timothée Chalamet

For his Oscar-nominated role as musician Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, the Dune actor learned how to sing and play guitar. 

"I also put on 20 pounds," he said during a January 2025 episode NPR’s All Things Considered podcast, "because, believe it or not, I was thinner than the guy.”

Cillian Murphy

To play scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, the Irish actor "had to lose quite a bit of weight," he shared. "He was very slim, almost emaciated, existed on martinis and cigarettes." His diet? According to costar Emily Blunt, "He had such a monumental undertaking.And he could only eat, like, an almond every day."

 

Joaquin Phoenix

For his Joker role, the Oscar winner opened up about his 52-pound weight loss, telling the Associated Press, "Once you reach the target weight, everything changes. Like so much of what's difficult is waking up every day and being obsessed over like 0.3 pounds. Right? And you really develop like a disorder."

J.K. Simmons

The Spider-Man alum shocked fans when he debuted his bulging biceps, which were displayed in Justice League.

Jake Gyllenhaal

"I'd say my mother was worried," he previously told E! News after losing 30 pounds for Nightcrawler. "I would say she just wanted me to be careful. But she also knew and knows how seriously I take what I do and she respects that."

Orlando Bloom

The Pirates of the Caribbean alum detailed the physical and emotional toll of losing 52 pounds for his boxing movie The Cut.

“I was exhausted mentally, physically. I was hangry,” he said on This Morning. “I was a horrible person to be around. The paranoia, the intrusive thoughts.”

“I wouldn’t recommend doing it at home, by the way,” he continued. “It was definitely not something to take lightly.”

Michael B. Jordan

The Black Panther star gained nearly 30 pounds of muscle to transform into a rookie-turned-professional boxer in Creed.

Jared Leto

The actor and musician nabbed an Oscar for his riveting role in The Dallas Buyers Club. He lost 40 pounds for the role.

Chris Messina

The Mindy Project alum had to gain 40 pounds for his role in Live by Night.

Renée Zellweger

The Bridget Jones's Diary actress gained weight to portray the lovable character in the franchise's first and second films.

Matthew McConaughey

The Magic Mike hunk dropped 30 pounds to star in The Dallas Buyer's Club—which centered on the real-life story about a man dying from AIDS in the 1980s who treated himself with alternative remedies he smuggled into the United States from Mexico.

Rooney Mara

The actress looked lean and strong for her starring role in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Anne Hathaway

The Les Misérables star took home an Oscar for her role in the musical.

Christian Bale

He's no stranger to morphing for movie roles. In 2004, he lost more than 60 pounds for his role in The Machinist, and he did it again for the film The Fighter, opposite Mark Wahlberg. He also gained 40 pounds for American Hustle—and lost 70 pounds for Ford v Ferrari.

Jake Gyllenhaal (Again)

The actor looked more like a god than a prince for his role in 2010's Prince of Persia. Gyllenhaal said he studied Parkour, the French art of street running, in order to bulk up for the film.

Tom Hanks

"All it is is time and discipline," the Oscar winner told Time magazine of his role in 2000's Cast Away, for which he lost over 50 pounds to play a man stranded on an uninhabited island.

50 Cent

The ripped rapper shocked fans with a photo of himself looking slender. He reportedly went from 214 to 160 pounds in just nine weeks to play a football player diagnosed with cancer in Things Fall Apart.

Robert De Niro

Shaping up for movie roles is nothing new. The legendary actor earned an Oscar nom for his role as terrifying tattooed rapist Max Cady in the 1991 thriller Cape Fear.

Christian Bale (Again)

In order to portray former Vice President Dick Cheney in the 2018 biopic Vice, the star sported a fuller figure