We all love good films, and we usually don’t think about what the screen masters had to go to to play the main role. They spend months honing their movements and cues to perfection, but sometimes their job is even more difficult. At the behest of the director, the actors have to go for various transformations of their appearance: wearing disgusting makeup, growing or completely cutting their hair, not shaving a beard for weeks, or wearing tattoos, as well as losing weight a lot or vice versa, "increasing fat".
Introducing top 10 actors who went for shocking appearance changesto get the coveted role.
10. Adam Driver in the movie "Silence"
Adam Driver is known to viewers for his role as Kylo Ren in the seventh part of "Star Wars". And in 2016 he starred in the film by Martin Scorsese "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 Lefty
In this movie, Gyllenhaal played Billy Hope, a middleweight boxer facing the biggest fight of his life. The actor has just lost weight for the movie "Stringer" and weighed 67 kg. Through intense training, he gained 13 kg of lean muscle mass and also fell in love with boxing. Gyllenhaal ran, jumped rope, staged shadow boxing, pounded 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 "Black Swan") is physically very close to the real Natalie Portman. However, the actress had to lose 9 kg to play Nina Sayers. She trained up to 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 the night the actress thought she was going to die.
However, all the torment for the role in "Black Swan" was justified, because for her Portman received an Oscar in the category "Best Actress", an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
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 Parks and Recreation series. However, much more fame brought him the role of charming adventurer Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy. From a plump funny guy, Pratt had to turn into a skinny Star-Lord. His weight has decreased by more than 27 kg in six months, thanks to a strict diet and intense training regimen.
6. Christian Bale in the movie The Machinist
Christian Bale is one of those actors who are ready to make big sacrifices for a complete transformation into a character.For filming in the movie "The Machinist", he lost 30 kg to portray Trevor Reznik, exhausted from insomnia. He ate one apple and a can of tuna a 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 learned from the doctors that it could kill him.
Four months after filming, the star has already put on weight to play Batman in The Dark Knight Rises.
5. Charlize Theron in the crime drama "Monster"
In the fifth place in the ranking of Hollywood celebrities who changed their appearance for filming in films, is one of the most beautiful and talented women in Hollywood. The daring actress was not afraid to shave off her hair for the role of Furiosa in the fantasy action movie Mad Max: Fury Road, but her most striking on-screen transformation came in the movie Monster. In it, she played a prostitute who becomes a serial killer. Before filming, Theron gained 14 kilograms and wore dentures, and her appearance has changed almost beyond recognition.
For this drama, Charlize Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
4. Matthew Fox in the detective story "I, Alex Cross"
Matthew Fox is widely regarded as the actor who played Jack Shepard on the TV show Lost, but many fans were surprised to see him transform for the movie I, Alex Cross. There Fox plays an antagonist, Picasso, who is a dangerous sociopath and serial killer.
Fox lost 18 kilos for the movie and also developed great muscles. Through strenuous training, he burned calories and gave the load to certain muscle groups. Indeed, according to the plot, his hero must take part in fights without rules.
3. Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables
Preparing to play the starving seamstress Fantina, Anne Hathaway lost 11 kg, and she did it not at the insistence of the director, but of her own free will to make the role more realistic. According to the plot, her heroine had to have her hair cut off and the actress decided to donate her own hair, and not use a wig. Her sacrifices earned her Oscars, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
2. Fifty Saint, in the sports drama Various Things
The rapper-turned-film actor did not regret his own appearance in order to look like a cancer patient. He wanted to play this role as a tribute to one of his friends who died of this disease. Sent's weight dropped 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 on the list of actors who have changed beyond recognition for the role is the lead vocalist of the American group 30 Seconds To Mars, and an iconic person in the Western film industry. He is known to audiences for his film bestsellers Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, The Gun Baron, and Suicide Squad. Summer is no stranger to the yo-yo diet, he has changed his appearance for many roles, but the "transformation" into Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's mentally disabled assassin for Chapter 27 was the hardest. The famous actor put on weight by 30 kg and suffered from gout and high cholesterol. To achieve the desired fullness, he had to eat ice cream mixed with olive oil and soy sauce.