'If Vin did five hours, I did five hours': Ruby Rose discusses her extreme training regime and diet for sniper role in xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage

Published: 22:35 GMT, 21 November 2016 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 22 November 2016

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Ruby Rose is no stranger to the gym, but for her role in xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage, she had to step it up a notch.

The model-turned-actress has revealed that she training three to four hours a day for her sniper role of Adele Wolff, opposite Vin Diesel.

'The gym was every day. It was three or four hours leading up to the film,” Ruby told Yahoo7 Be.

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Hard work: Ruby Rose says she trained three to four hours a day for her role in xXx: The Return of Xander Cage

'I just wanted to compete with Vin. So if Vin did five hours, I did five hours. If he did half an hour, I did 31 minutes and both of us, we just saw each other really reacting well to that non-stop training.'

Ruby went on to explain that they were 'eating all the time' to maintain their energy levels throughout the shoot.

The latest installment in the Triple X franchise sees Vin return as the extreme athlete-turned-government operative who comes out of hiding to take on deadly alpha warrior Xiang (Donnie Yen) and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box.

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Adele is one of his new recruits, which meant Ruby enjoyed lots of gun training and was able to do her own stunts too.

She told the Kyle & Jackie Show that after working with Vin she considers him a 'brother' and that he got her a rather special birthday present.

'He's always happy and always fun, he organised a surprise birthday and it was axe throwing in Canada,' she explained, before ending any suggestion she was taking sides in the Vin Diesel/The Rock feud.

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'I don't think there are separate teams, I think they are just two guys that work incredibly hard that are gifted and skilled and incredibly passionate,' Ruby explained.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson had taken to Facebook, back in August, to slam a Fast 8 castmember for continuously being late to set.

Though he didn't name Vin, maybe subsequent reports suggested it was him The Rock was talking about.