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Today we are talking all about diets.
Boo.
I like food.
Many actors will transform their bodies to get in character and sometimes that requires
them to lose some weight.
This might require them to be on a really strict diet and workout schedule, which can
be a huge health risk.
Keep in mind, we do NOT encourage anyone to try these methods of weight loss.
Seriously.
Let’s jump into it thought with today’s list of Top 10 Actors Who Went On Extreme
Diets For A Movie Role.
10) Starting off the list at number 10 is Joaquin Phoenix.
Fans are thrilled to see him in the new Joker movie as he takes on Batman’s biggest enemy,
but he will look a lot different in this movie.
Turns out he lost 52 pounds to play the role, eating just a little more than an apple a
day.
The actor himself admitted that he doesn’t encourage this type of diet for anyone and
said, I quote: It’s a horrible way to live.
It was actually the director's idea, Todd Phillips, for him to lose a significant amount
of weight.
He wrote down in his production notes that it was a good idea for him to lose weight
for the image he had in mind.
He said: I wanted the character to look hungry and unhealthy, like a malnourished wolf.
Well it appears that he was able to bring his idea to life because Joaquin looks hungry.
Because of his weight change being so drastic, they weren’t able to go back and do reshoots,
so they had to make sure it was all done right the first time around.
No pressure.
9) Up next at number 9 is 50 Cent.
Back in 2010 the rapper shocked fans with a photo of himself looking unrecognizable
for an upcoming role in the movie All Things Fall Apart.
He was taking on the role of a college football player struggling with cancer and dropped
55 lbs for the movie.
He went from 214 pounds down to about 160 over the course of just 9 weeks; that’s
a crazy amount of weight to lose in such a short amount of time.
He spoke about the process and said he worked out 3 hours a day and stuck to an all-liquid
diet.
He said it was difficult because he had so much muscle on him at the time that it was
hard to lose that definition and just look smaller.
Once he started though he felt like he couldn’t stop.
He said: the weight started coming off and my manager told me, you better get yourself
to a doctor.
I just didn’t want to go because I had to match the look in my mind.
Sticking to the all liquid diet took a lot of discipline he said and that it was hard
for him to have any physical energy.
Luckily though, he remained healthy enough and gained all of his weight and muscle back
after filming was over.
8) Swiping the number 8 spot is Jared Leto.
There’s been a few times where fans haven’t recgonized him after he took on a movie role,
once when he gained 60 pounds for the movie Chapter 27, and another when he played a transsexual
in the movie Dallas Buyers Club.
For those who haven’t seen the movie he took on the role of a transsexual battling
HIV and then AIDs, so he had to drop his weight to fit the part.
He lost over 30 pounds for the role and weighed 116 pounds while he was filming.
When asked how he was able to lose the weight he told Eonline that he basically just stopped
eating.
He said: I lost 30 or 40 pounds, after a while I stopped counting.
I just basically didn’t eat.
I ate very little.
He revealed how the weight loss made him feel and says that it affected him both mentally
and physically.
He admitted to Enews: you know, you feel very fragile and delicate and unsafe.
It’s not a great thing to see.
However, he doesn’t regret it and says that he knew the part demanded that kind of commitment
from him as an artist.
That’s why they pay him the big bucks you guys, he’s one of the best in the biz.
7) Coming in at number 7 is Chris Hemsworth.
We’re used to seeing him as the muscle meat-head superhero Thor, so it was shocking to see
him lose weight for his role in The heart of The Sea.
He took on the role of Ron Howard and lived on a meagre diet which consisted of barely
more than one egg a day.
He teamed up with his co-stars to do the diet to make it easier on all of them; they had
to do the diet while filming so that they remained that thin throughout it.
He talked about it with the Daily Mail and said: we couldn’t go away for a month and
get skinny, we had to do it while we were shooting.
At one point, a day’s rations were a boiled egg, a couple of crackers, and a celery stick.
He also joked saying that they often just sat there talking about what they would eat
once the movie was done filming.
Despite making jokes though, he says that he wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
I mean an egg a day?
That’s nothing, that’s like drinking a glass of water to me.
6) At number 6 is Natalie Portman.
You might be wondering his she even lost a significant amount of weight since she has
such a small figure to begin with, but her role as a ballerina required her to look even
more thin than she already was.
She took on the lead role in the movie Black Swan which told the story of a very committed
ballerina dancer.
Natalie opened up about the extent of her preparation for the role and admits to losing
20 pounds before filming began.
She was on what was called a carrots-and-almond diet, which is exactly how it sounds.
She only ate carrots and almonds throughout her days and small portions of both.
On top of that, she was in intense dance training 8 hours a day.
She spoke on it saying: there were nights that I thought I literally was going to die.
It was the first time I understood how you could get so wrapped up in a role that it
could sort of take you down.
I honestly don’t know how she did that- I would’ve fainted.
Straight up.
5)Half way through the list is Jake Gyllenhaal who lost weight for his movie Nightcrawler
which came out back in 2014.
He’s normally a pretty buff dude which is why it was weird seeing him looking so slim
in the movie.
He spent 3 months before the movie brainstorming with the screenwriter and director about the
appearance of his character Lou.
He planned on dropping 20 lbs from his 180lb frame, and he was successful.
He talked about the transition and said: I would try to eat as few calories as possible.
If I knew I was hungry than I was in the right spot.
Physically, it showed itself, but chemically and mentally, I think it was an even a more
fascinating journey.
It became a struggle for me.
One trick he used was eating a bowl of luxury flavoured chewing gum.
They all had different flavours to trick his brain into thinking that he was having an
actual meal.
And if it wasn’t gum, he was drinking almond tea.
When it came to working out, Jake says that he would often run 15 miles from his house
to the film set as a way of doing extra cardio.
4) Cruising into our number 4 spot is Tom Hanks.
He has lost and gained weight for a few roles, but his 55 lb weight loss for the 2000 movie
Castaway, was his most extreme diet by far.
Seeing as he was playing a man stuck on a deserted island, it only made sense that he
would be extremely thin throughout it.
He told Entertainment Weekly what he missed most while shedding the weight and said: oh,
those FF’s man, those fries from france.
The only thing I did not give up was coffee.
Nope, wasn’t about to.
He was on a very strict diet of only water (and coffee apparently), vegetables, very
little carbs, and fish.
And to lean out he was on a strict workout schedule where he would do 2 hours of cardio
a day, 6 days a week.
All of this was under a doctor’s supervision.
The actor was actually motivated to lose the weight he said, because he felt inspired to
do the role justice.
The only downfall is he was later diagnosed with diabetes and he thinks the quick losing/gaining
weight he had to do for movie roles is a big part of the diagnosis.
3) Alright guys, at number 3 is Matthew McConaughey.
Just like his co-star Jared Leto, he also had to lose weight for his role in the Dallas
Buyers Club.
The 2014 movie had McConaughey playing a Texan horse rider who was diagnosed with HIV and
given 30 days to live, so naturally, his body had to look like it was withering away.
He ended up winning an Oscar for his incredible performance so some would say it was totally
worth it.
McConaughey ended up losing a total of 47 lbs, which is a lot when you’re not a big
guy to begin with.
He talked about the process with the Daily Mail and said: the dieting was pretty hard-core.
I was losing 7 lbs every week.
I’d have a diet coke, two egg whites in the morning, a piece of chicken, then another
diet coke, that was rough.
I got down to 143lbs and I was always hungry and irritable.
Yeah honestly can you guys imagine how hangry all these actors would be?
Seriously, i’m so grumpy when I’m hungry.
But despite how difficult it was, the actor says says he wanted to portray his character
in the most realistic way possible and that he’s very proud of his performance regardless
of the side effects.
He went to a nutritionist afterwards to help with his recovery so all is good in the hood.
2) In spot number 2 is Lily Collins.
At the time, the 28 year old actress went to weekly doctor check-ups to make sure she
lost weight safely for her role in the Netflix movie: To The Bone.
In the movie she took on the lead role of a young woman battling anorexia.
The actress admits to battling eating disorders in her past and had mixed emotions at first
when she was going for the part.
She told Elle: It was kind of nerve-wracking.
You’re doing it for a part, but it’s something so close to you.
There’s a fine line between, are you going to fall back into it, are you not?
But she found comfort in the fact that they hired a nutritionist and did it in the most
healthy way possible.
She was on a strict diet plan in order to lose weight throughout the filming process,
so that the battle with anorexia was believable.
Keep in mind, she’s a tiny girl to begin with, so she was at serious risk for health
issues when trying to lose weight.
She’s just happy that she was able to share her story and hopefully inspire other people
who struggle with body image too.
1)Taking the number 1 spot on our list is Christian Bale.
This man deserves so much credit he basically turned his body into a walking skeleton.
He stopped eating for his role in The Machinist, dropping 63 lbs to play the part.
His weight went down to 122lbs and none of it was muscle, he was literally skin and bones.
He admitted that the director, Brad Anderson, did NOT ask him to lose that much weight and
that he did it on his own because he wanted to.
He told BBC: I was intrigued by a perverse nature of mine just to see if I can go beyond
what I've been told is actually safe and ok, and see if I could push the limits.
During that time his diet consisted of taking lots of vitamins, running, and eating an apple
and a can of tuna a day.
The wild part was, that once the movie was over, he gained 100 lbs in just 5 months to
bulk back up to 220 lbs for his role in Batman Begins.
So he really did prove that he could push the limits, although I don’t encourage this
type of diet or mindset.
Unless you’re getting paid what he did.
Alright, that’s our list for today.
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