Actors who lost/gained weight for a role

Just please please don't go THAT far...it is really scary!!

I promise :) I agree, he did look very terrifying D:

I only want to lose half as much weight as he did <3

Lol that picture of Jared Leto fat is crazy! I can't believe he did that!
 
Natalie definitely put on some weight since Black Swan. I don't know how much it was exactly, but i once read an interview in which she said so. Still thought she looked amazing in Friends with Benefits, though :luv:

Well, she got pregnant after Black Swan so I guess putting on some weight was a reasonable idea.
 
Matt Damon has gone both ways.

He got fat for "the informant"

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and VERY thin for "courage under fire"

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haven't seen either of those. I like him. He's cute and he seems like a cool person, though I def prefer him at his baseline ;).

I love that ginger toupee he is rocking for the Informant! :grin: Is that a new movie?
 
Jared Leto gained a lot of weight for the movie Chapter 27.... i haven't watched the movie but after seeing those pictures i think it's better not to....

I'm just happy he lost the weight again!

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OOOO he is nice on the eyes...:luv::highfive: when he is skinnier obvs
 
Colin Farrell lost a lot of weight for his role as a Bosnia War photographer in a film called "Triage".

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Tom Hanks- Castaway
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Emile Hirsch- Into The Wild (I LOVE this movie)
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Both of these are examples of actors in "starving" roles.
 
Wow, Colin Farrell looks super skinny. In a bad bad way, he looks like an alien.
 
Ryan Gosling - Weight gain for a movie ...and then he got fired


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here's what i found online:

"While most actors gain kudos or awards in recognition for gaining extreme amounts of weight for a role, Ryan Gosling got fired. Yes, the Oscar-nominated actor with the pinup looks put on 60 pounds after he was cast in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, because he thought it would service his character, grieving dad Jack Salmon. “We had a different idea of how the character should look,” Gosling told The Hollywood Reporter. “I really believed he should be 210 pounds.” To accomplish this task, Gosling drank melted cartons of Häagen Dazs ice cream, but when he showed up on set, Jackson was unimpressed and ultimately replaced Gosling with Mark Wahlberg. “Then I was fat and unemployed,” said Gosling. "
 
the role i most admire renee zellweger in was bridget jones which was a book about a funny fat british woman that was turned into a movie :bow:

i think the english really hated that she won the role because she wasnt british or fat, but when the movie came out i think the rest of the world just assumed she was fat already (and my aussie dad swore she was actually british too he was so convinced by her accent):)

she had to gain 28 pounds in two months for the movie and she was told to stop excersing completely and they had her eat 6 pizzas often extra cheesy, doughnuts and other junk food and sweets every day! so that she could go from her original size 4 to a bridget jones size 14! :wtf:

i always thought she was brave/crazy to put her body throught that, on the other hand i hear they paid her $100000 for every pound she gained, but still I'm not sure I would have gone through with it even if I was paid, I don't think my body would ever forgive me :superpuke:

im british, and i LOVED that film. i think she played that part better than any actress i could imagine!!

the fass lost loads of weight for hunger.
i LOVE that man.
also, regarding christian bale, he ate a can of tuna everyday. he said it in an interview....

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George Clooney - weight gain for his role in the movie "Syriana"

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Matt Damon has gone both ways.

He got fat for "the informant"

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and VERY thin for "courage under fire"

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haven't seen either of those. I like him. He's cute and he seems like a cool person, though I def prefer him at his baseline ;).
i don't even LIKE matt damon, but in that skinny picture... damn.
 
Hey, isn't Anne Hathaway going on her 'extreme diet' (lol) for her role in Les Miserables? Personally, I don't think I see any difference from the pictures, but good for her!
 
Matthew McConaughey for The Dallas Buyers Club:

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Apparently he's lost 30 pounds through cardio, eating high-protein, low-carb food and drinking lots of tea. Sounds like he's been on SG :p;)
 
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the role i most admire renee zellweger in was bridget jones which was a book about a funny fat british woman that was turned into a movie :bow:

i think the english really hated that she won the role because she wasnt british or fat, but when the movie came out i think the rest of the world just assumed she was fat already (and my aussie dad swore she was actually british too he was so convinced by her accent):)

she had to gain 28 pounds in two months for the movie and she was told to stop excersing completely and they had her eat 6 pizzas often extra cheesy, doughnuts and other junk food and sweets every day! so that she could go from her original size 4 to a bridget jones size 14! :wtf:

i always thought she was brave/crazy to put her body throught that, on the other hand i hear they paid her $100000 for every pound she gained, but still I'm not sure I would have gone through with it even if I was paid, I don't think my body would ever forgive me :superpuke:

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I remember the criticism "No, she is going to be awful as Bridget, she's too skinny, she's not British. But she turned out to be perfect for the part.
 
Sally Fields
At the age of 65(!) she gained 25 lbs for a part of Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Ms Fields on preparing for the part:
"I read five biographies," she says. "I read 'Little Women,' because it was written around that time; I visited her home and saw memorabilia; I listened to old recordings of elderly women from Kentucky, to hear some remnants of what she might have sounded like. And then I gained 25 pounds. ... Mary had a girth to her, and I wanted to try and get close to that, to give you just a glimmer of her little round body through the chemise."
 
Mila Kunis reportedly lost 20 lbs for Black Swan as well as Natalie Portman.
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Both are about 5'3" - 5'4"

Rooney Mara lost weight for the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, not sure how much though.
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Renee Zellweger was quite thin and muscular in Chicago which is super opposite Bridget Jones.
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