12 Hollywood stars who changed a lot for the sake of the role

Almost all the stars of show business and Hollywood actors try to maintain themselves in good physical condition in one way or another, but when it comes to a big role, are many people ready to undergo body transformations for the sake of cinema? Well, art requires land... And before you is a list of stars who risked gaining weight or losing weight for a role in a movie.

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1. Charlize Theron

A Hollywood actress who has not once been afraid to change for the sake of a role. Charlize experienced her first transformation when she changed beyond recognition for the role of a killer in the movie Monster. Then she agreed to recover by 14 kg. and put on terrible make-up that changed the actress beyond recognition. The next role required the actress to gain 22 kg. Charlize gained much weight for the role of a mother of many children in the film "Tally", which later nevertheless brought her success, but recovery after such changes took a long time and was morally difficult for the actress.

2. Natalie Portman

While preparing for the film "Black Swan", the actress experienced a monstrous moral and physical exhaustion. “I almost died,” the actress recalls. For this role, which later won Portman an Oscar, the already thin actress lost 9 kg. She sat on a carrot-almond diet and trained for 8 hours a day, exhausting herself in all respects.

3. Tom Hanks

For the sake of the role in the film Cast Away, where the plump protagonist finds himself on a desert island, where, naturally, he loses weight during the plot, Tom Hanks had to first gain as much as 23 kg, and then quickly drop them to a critical level. The body of the actor survived such metamorphoses badly. Due to uncontrolled weight loss and weight gain, he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. After the diagnosis, Tom stated that he would no longer experiment with sharp fluctuations in weight for the sake of roles and would save his health. By the way, for this role, Tom Hanks received a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.

4. Chris Pratt

For the sake of the coveted role in Guardians of the Galaxy, Chris Prat had to get rid of his round belly and second chin and throw off as much as 27 kg. For half a year! Chris says that he worked out for 4 hours every day and drank a lot of water. However, the efforts of the actor were fully justified, because his fame is for the most part the merit of his role in the Guardians.

5. Jonah Hill

In a short time, John's body underwent drastic transformations. First, in 2014, the actor lost 40 kg. for the sake of a role in the film "Macho and Nerd", and then in 2016 he sharply gained weight by +20 kg. for the film "Guys with Guns". Rumor has it that John should star in a comedy, for which he lost as much as 50 kg!

6. Jared Leto

To play a skinny transsexual in the film "Dallas Buyers Club", Jared had to lose weight as much as 18 kg! To do this, he simply stopped eating, and they also removed the hair on his entire body and eyebrows with wax. This sacrifice has paid off. Jared won an Oscar. But the next picture called “Chapter 27” required the actor to gain 30 kg in weight. The actor complains that the extra weight was given to him much more difficult than thinness. Each step required rest and greatly affected his morale.

7. Ann Hataway

For her role in the film Les Misérables, where the actress played a heroine with tuberculosis, Anne Hathaway had to lose as much as 11 kg. Everything would be fine, but the girl had not been distinguished by curvaceous forms before, so much weight loss greatly affected her appearance. In addition, for the role of Ann, she had to cut her long hair to a short bob.

8. Meryl Streep

In 2009, Meryl was lucky enough to play the lead role in the movie Julie & Julia: Cooking Happiness with a Recipe. For the role of a fat woman who graduated from culinary school and taught housewives to cook, Meryl gained about 10 kg. This role brought the actress another Oscar nomination, but the actress did not manage to get a gold statuette.

9. Christian Bale

For the role in the film "The Machinist", where Bale played a machinist with an acute form of insomnia, the actor dropped as much as 28 kg! Christian's daily diet was only 260 calories and included only canned tuna, an apple, and black coffee. Such an exhausting diet and, of course, the gym, helped the actor achieve a total weight of only about 50 kg.

10. Edward Norton

Among the actors who mercilessly lost weight or gained weight for the sake of getting roles, there are also those who were a little more fortunate, because their task was to put their bodies in order and pump up a little. And what motivation for an actor could be even better? So Edward Norton had to gain 15 kg of muscle mass for the sake of filming in the film American History X, where he played the head of neo-Nazis. To do this, Norton sat on a high-protein diet and intensively rocked in the hall.

11. Hilary Swank

For the role of a boxer in the movie "Million Dollar Baby", Hilary managed to gain muscle mass in the amount of +10 kg. To do this, the actress followed a diet and trained in the gym 6 days a week, devoting time to both boxing and strength training.