We all love good films, and usually don’t think about what screen masters had to do to play a major role. They spend months honing their movements and cues to perfection, but sometimes their work is even more complicated. At the behest of the director, the actors have to go through various transformations of their appearance: to wear disgusting makeup, to grow or completely cut their hair, not to shave their beards for weeks, or to wear tattoos, and also to lose weight very much or vice versa, to “build fat”.
Introducing top 10 actors who went on a shocking change in appearanceto get the cherished role.
10. Adam Driver in the movie Silence
Adam Driver is known to the audience for the role of Kylo Ren in the seventh part of Star Wars. And in 2016, he starred in Martin Scorsese's film “Silence” as the Portuguese priest Francisco Garupe. He went to Japan in search of his mentor.
To participate in the filming, the actor had to lose 18 kg. He admitted that he had never gone "to such extremes" before.
9. Jake Gyllenhaal in the picture "Left-Handed"
In this movie, Gyllenhaal was played by Billy Hope, middleweight boxer, who will face the most important fight in his life. The actor had just lost weight for the movie Stringer and weighed 67 kg. With the help of intensive training, he added 13 kg of pure muscle mass, and also fell in love with boxing. Gyllenhaal was jogging, jumping rope, arranging shadow boxing, punching a punching bag, and as a result, they began to compare him with the famous boxer Rocky Balboa - the character of Sylvester Stallone.
8. Natalie Portman in the movie "Black Swan"
The fragile ballerina (the main character of the "Black Swan") in physical parameters is very close to the real Natalie Portman. However, the actress had to lose 9 kg to play Nina Sayers. She studied until 16 hours a day and ate very little, which was very similar to the life of a real professional ballerina. Portman became so skinny that it was night when the actress thought she would die.
However, all the torment for the role in the Black Swan was justified, because for her Portman received an Oscar in the category "Best Actress", an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
7. Chris Pratt in the film "Guardians of the Galaxy"
Many people know Chris Pratt as the happy, energetic, and gullible Andy Dwyer from the series Parks and Recreation. However, the role of the charming adventurer Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy brought him much more fame. From a chubby, funny guy, Pratt had to turn into a skinny Star Lord. His weight decreased by more than 27 kg in six months, thanks to a strict diet and an intensive training regimen.
6. Christian Bale in the movie “The Engineer”
Christian Bale is one of those actors who are ready for big sacrifices for the sake of complete transformation into a character. For the filming of the movie “The Engineer”, he lost 30 kg to portray Trevor Reznik, exhausted by insomnia. He ate one apple and a can of tuna per day, and smoked cigarettes, which helped him control his appetite. Bale lost 9 kg more than he was told and even tried to lose another 2 kg before he knew from doctors that this could kill him.
Four months have passed since the filming, and the star has already gained weight in order to play Batman in The Dark Knight: Revival of the Legend.
5. Charlize Theron in the crime drama "Monster"
In fifth place in the ranking of Hollywood celebrities who changed their appearance for the sake of filming in films, is one of the most beautiful and talented women in Hollywood. This brave actress was not afraid to shave her hair for the role of Furiosa in the fantastic action movie “Mad Max: The Road of Fury”, however her most striking screen transformation occurred in the film “Monster”. In it, she played a prostitute who becomes a serial killer. Before filming, Theron recovered by 14 kilograms and wore dentures, and her appearance changed almost beyond recognition.
Thanks to this drama, Charlize Theron received the Academy Award for Best Actress.
4. Matthew Fox in the detective "I, Alex Cross"
Matthew Fox is widely known as the actor who played Jack Shepard in the television show "Lost," but many fans were very surprised to see his transformation for the film "I, Alex Cross." There, Fox plays the antagonist, Picasso, who is a dangerous sociopath and serial killer.
Fox lost 18 kilograms for the film, and also developed great musculature. With the help of hard training, he burned calories and gave load to certain muscle groups. After all, in the story, his hero should be involved in fights without rules.
3. Anne Hathaway in the movie Les Miserables
Preparing to play the starving seamstress Fantina, Ann Hathaway lost 11 kg, and did this not at the insistence of the director, but of her own free will to make the role more realistic. Her heroine in the story had to cut her hair and the actress decided to sacrifice her own hair, and not use a wig. Her victims brought her an Oscar, Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award.
2. Fifi St., in the sports drama "Different things"
The rapper, who became a film actor, did not spare his own appearance to look like a cancer patient. He wanted to play this role as a tribute to one of his friends who died from this disease. Sent's weight fell by more than 23 kg in just nine weeks, for this he adhered to a strict liquid diet and worked out on a treadmill daily.
1. Jared Leto in the biographical drama "Chapter 27"
In the first place in the list of actors who have changed beyond recognition for the role is the leading vocalist of the American band 30 Seconds To Mars, and a landmark in the Western film industry. He is known to viewers for such film bestsellers as “Requiem for a Dream”, “Fight Club”, “Armory Baron”, and “Suicide Squad”. Summer is not a newcomer to the yo-yo diet, it has changed its appearance for many roles, but the “transformation” into Mark David Chapman, the mentally inferior killer of John Lennon for “Chapter 27” was the hardest. The famous actor grew fat by 30 kg and suffered from gout and high cholesterol. To achieve the necessary fullness, he had to use ice cream mixed with olive oil and soy sauce.
