The 25 Most Extreme Body Changes that Actors have Gone to for a Movie Role
Most of us dream of losing weight or, conversely, gaining a little weight, but for Hollywood actors, such changes in appearance are just one of the aspects of work. Directors are sometimes very picky in the selection of actors and in what they would like to see them in the frame.
We present to your attention 25 extreme body changes that actors had to go to in order to get a role in a movie.
For a role in the film "The Machinist", the actor had to lose weight to 55 kg. He lost almost 30 kg in four months, after which doctors recommended him to stop, believing that if this goes on, the actor will soon be close to death.
To play the main character of the film "Dallas Buyers Club" dying of AIDS, McConaughey lost 21 kg in six months.
Despite the fact that the actress already looked miniature in the frame, for the role in the Oscar-winning "Black Swan" she had to lose 9 kg.
Usually Chris led the life of a simple guy like his character Andy from the TV series "Parks and Recreation", but for the role in "Guardians of the Galaxy" the actor had to lose 27 kg and pump up.
To more convincingly play serial killer Eileen Wuornos in the movie "Monster", Charlize had to gain 14 kg.
For the role of a veteran drug addict in the movie "Courage in Battle" Matt Damon lost 18 kg. After filming as a result of a sharp weight loss, the actor was under the supervision of doctors for another 7 months.
For the role of a football player dying of cancer in the film "Different Things", the rapper had to lose weight from 97 to 72.5 kg. He achieved such results by going on a liquid diet and running for three hours a day.
As the actress herself said: "I literally thought I was going to die." Of course, for the role in the "Black Swan", the already thin Natalie had to lose 9 kg, which she achieved by training for 5-8 hours a day and almost not eating any food.
After filming "The Avengers" for the role in the movie "Race", the actor had to lose weight from 100 to 84 kg in 4 months, then to gain 16 kg again for the role of Thor.
For the role of Jake Lamotta in the movie "Raging Bull" Robert De Niro had to gain 27 kg.
The actor said that for the filming of the movie "A little married" he lost 16 kg to make the love of the heroine Emily Blunt for him look more plausible.
Despite the fact that today Jonah Hill has gained his pounds again, for the role in the movie "Macho and Nerd" in 2012, he lost 18 kg.
For the role of a fat woman in the film "Bridget Jones's Diary", the actress had to gain 14 kg and abstain from all types of physical activity.
In the movie "Outcast", where the actor first appears in the image of an ordinary middle-aged man, and then turns into a resident of a desert island, Tom Hanks had to lose 23 kg and grow wild vegetation on his face, for which the filming was even suspended.
For the role of the killer in the film "I, Alex Cross", the actor had to lose 18 kg.
Before losing 23 kg for the role of a transvestite in the movie "Dallas Buyers Club" in 2013, Jared had to gain 32 kg to play the role of a mentally ill killer in the movie "Chapter 27".
After filming "Gladiator" for the role of a loose CIA agent in the film "The Totality of Lies", the actor had to gain almost 30 kg.
Despite the already athletic form, for the role of a boxer in the movie "Baby in a million", the actress had to gain almost 10 kg of muscle mass.
For the role of a stern warrior in the film "300 Spartans", this actor also had to gain 10 kg of muscle mass.
After losing 14 kg for the role in "Stringer", Jake Gyllenhaal had to give everything back, plus gain another 7 kg of muscle mass from above for the filming of the film "Lefty". To look like a champion boxer, the actor literally did not get out of the gym for 6 months.
For the role of a starving prostitute in the movie "Les Miserables", the already thin actress had to lose an additional 11 kg.
To look like a real "navy seal" in the movie "Sniper", the actor had to gain almost 20 kg of muscle mass.
For the Oscar-winning role of a CIA agent in the film "Siriana", the actor had to gain almost 14 kg.
For the role in the movie "Cute Bones" Ryan Gosling had to gain almost 30 kg, only to hear from the director that he looks terrible, "looks absolutely not the way his character should look." He was subsequently replaced by Mark Wahlberg.
For the role of the British prisoner Charles Bronson in the film "Bronson" Tom Hardy had to gain 20 kg in just 5 weeks, eating a huge amount of food and training under the supervision of a former marine soldier.