“I had to learn to be kinder to myself,” he said in the latest episode of the “How to Fail with Elizabeth Day” podcast.

Even Gaston himself struggles with body image insecurities.

Luke Evans45, who played the very vain but extremely fit character in the live-action Beauty and the Beast film, was very frank on the subject new episode of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day podcast.

“I still go to the gym sometimes and feel very anxious,” he explained. “I look in the mirror and just say, ‘You don’t look good enough’ or ‘You’re giving up.’ I look at my face… the terrible thing about my industry is that you’re constantly reminded of the decades of movies you made, when you didn’t have a crease on your face or a gray beard, when all my beard is now gray.”

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“I’ve had to learn to be kinder to myself, but I’m terribly afraid of feeling good enough physically,” he continued. “Some of it isn’t completely bad (because) it gives you a little something to fight for, but it can be overwhelming. I was on a beach recently and I didn’t want to take off my T-shirt. I don’t want to be in this place. I know I shouldn’t feel this way, but you know we are sensitive creatures, we are very delicate. As harsh as I may seem, I’m quite delicate.

Although he is known for his roles in several films that require a certain physique… The Three Musketeers, Robin Hoodand the Fast and Furious And The Hobbit franchises, to name a few – Evans has admitted that staying in shape is simply part of his job, and in fact, if he wasn’t an actor, he doesn’t think he’d look or feel as he does now.

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“I’m sure if I didn’t have to go take my top off on a film set every once in a while, I probably would have ditched it all,” he said. “I don’t care, but it’s part of my job. I am given certain roles that require a certain physical and aesthetic strength. This was good because it probably kept me on the straight and narrow.

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However, this self-consciousness didn’t stop him from comparing himself to others and hoping that he could walk around with as much confidence in his own skin as some people seem to do.

“When I do it, it’s a lot of work when I have to present that,” he admitted on the podcast, although that’s not bad news for the star. Evans concluded: “I don’t have a lot of confidence in a lot of things about myself, but I’ve learned to deal with it, not ignore it, understand why and deal with it, but it doesn’t go away .”