Have you been keeping up with your summer beach bod or the dad bod?!
Watch this video to see which celebrities have had the craziest transformations!
We’re starting off this list with Christian Bale for the movie American Hustle.
He had to gain 43 pounds for the role of a balding con man, going from 185 to 228.
He said that he was eating everything from donuts to cheeseburgers, to whatever he could
get his hands on.
Gaining 43 pounds in a few months would be so tough, because that’s a ton of food and
your body probably starts saying, what the f**k after the first 20 lbs!
Waaaaaay back in 2003, Charlize Theron put on 30lbs for her role in Monster.
That may not sound like a lot, but you have to realize that gaining 30lbs when you’re
118 lbs, that’s a lot of weight!
She said she ate a lot of doughnuts and chips for the role, which doesn’t sound too bad.
According to her, she really wasn’t trying to get fat for the role since the character
wasn’t fat, but she was just emulating the lifestyle of the character.
Charlize ended up not looking anything like the usual glamorous pretty girl roles she’s
used to playing.
The movie was critically acclaimed, and she won an Oscar for the role of serial killer
Aileen Wuornos, so I’m sure she was happy with the effort.
Edward Norton put on a lot of weight for his role as a neo-nazi racist in American History
X!
He supposedly put on 25 lbs of muscle for the role, which I actually doubt is all muscle,
but still impressive anyways.
Norton was amazing in the movie, and he earned a nomination for an Academy Award, but ultimately
lost out.
A little known fun fact here: The film almost didn’t make it to the public because the
director, Tony Kaye, wasn’t happy with the final cut of the movie and tried to stop its
release and have his name removed from the film!
He even went as far suing the film studio for releasing the movie!
Gerard Butler took it to the next level when he portrayed King Leonidas for the movie 300.
He went from looking like this, to looking like this!
This took 4 months of training, and he often went through 4-6 hour workouts a day to achieve
the look!!
His personal trainer wanted him to look like a warrior, so he had him doing a lot of different
compound movements.
Here’s the famous 300 workout that the actors did:
• 25 pull ups • 50 deadlifts with 135 lbs
• 50 pushups • 50 reps - 24-inch Box Jumps
• 50 floor wipes • 50 clean-and-presses with a 36lb kettle
bell • 25 more pull ups
And all that was done as fast as possible.
And that’s just part of the workout!
Let’s just say the workout paid off because King Leonidas definitely didn’t look like
someone you wanted to f**k with!
The Fresh Prince had a lot to live up to to play one of the greatest boxers ever, with
him playing Mohammed Ali, and he definitely didn’t disappoint! Smith put on 35 lbs,
from 185 to 220.
He trained for 5 days a week, for 6 hours a day, which included lifting weights and
lots of boxing.
His bench went from 175 lbs to 365 lbs in close to a year’s worth of training to be
like Ali.
In addition to looking the part, he also pretty much nailed the part for acting like Ali.
Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for the film.
In order to get into character as a guy who’s been infected with HIV, Matthew McConaughey
had to lose around 47 lbs to look the part!
He said that he started losing his eyesight when he dropped to about 147 lbs…..whaaaaat!
He also said that he’d get sore after doing 5 situps, and he had trouble running 30 feet.
He said the toughest part was filling the day with things to do, since he was sleeping
3 hours less a night!
He did say he enjoyed the experience, because he had to learn new ways of entertaining himself
since it was a whole lot of not eating and socializing.
He read and wrote a lot, and the whole experience was supposedly a really fun adventure.
Well, I guess next time I get bored out of my mind, I’ll try this experience!
NOT.
One of my favorite rappers, 50 cent, decided to pay tribute to one of his childhood friends
who died of cancer by portraying him in a movie.
50 dropped 54 lbs in 9 weeks, from 214 to 160! Whoa.
9 weeks.
He did this by running on a treadmill for 3 hours a day, AND being on a liquid diet.
Now that’s something that I’m never gonna do, no thanks.
Fifty’s actually dropped below 160 before.
This is because back in 2000 he was shot in the jaw and could only drink liquids.
Learn from 50.
Don’t get shot in the jaw.
Actually, just don’t get shot in general!
For Cast Away, Tom Hanks had to first put ON around 40 lbs in order to look like a workaholic
middle aged engineer from Memphis TN.
Production then was scheduled to stop for a year, so Hanks could lose that weight and
then some! Hanks ended up losing 55 lbs in 4 months in order to look like a dude stranded
on an island for 4 years.
His plan was really simple, which was 2 hours a day of working out, and then a very strict
diet of vegetables, water, and fish.
Hanks said, “The hardest thing was the time.
I wish I could have just taken a pill and lost all the weight.”
Uhhh…..no s**t!
Isn’t that what everyone wants?!
Anyways, gaining 40lbs and then losing 55lbs just so you can be filmed being best friends
with a volleyball?!
Add that to my list of things I’m never doing!
For his role in Warrior, where he played a jacked MMA fighter, Tom Hardy had to train
8 hours a day to get prepped for the role!
He trained boxing for 2 hours, muay thai for 2 hours, then had 2 hours of chorography,
and 2 hours of lifting!
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that’s pretty insane.
He went from 162 lbs to about 185, all while keeping a body fat percentage that’s relatively
low.
He complained of having to eat nothing but chicken and broccoli for the shoot, and how
he didn’t understand how professional athletes go through with only eating clean food!
Pffffft, what about all the guys who eat stuff like that all day and they don’t get paid
for it?!
To show the inside scoop in the world of professional wrestling, Mickey Rourke had to put on about
27 lbs of muscle for The Wrestler!
What makes this extremely impressive is the fact that he did it as a 55 year old!
Of course, having muscle when you were younger definitely helps a lot, because you don’t
just put on 27 lbs of muscle in your 50s!
Rourke used to be a professional boxer, and he looked like he definitely had some muscle
back then.
He basically worked out hard for 7 and a half months, and ate like a bodybuilder, eating
6-7 meals a day.
But, it’s still hard to put that type of muscle on, even if you had it before!
What do you guys think?
Think he touched the roids?!
At #5, we have Jake Gyllenhall transforming himself for Southpaw.
Jake Gyllenhall doesn’t exactly look like the type who was gifted with a natural build!
How exactly did he do it?
Everyday he did 2000 pushups, ran anywhere from 3-8 miles, and did work in the ring to
learn how to properly box.
He basically did 2 workouts a day.
Every day.
For 5 months.
Wow.
Gyllenhaal went from a skinny 147 pounds to a built 175 pounds in just six months.
Not gonna lie, I’m definitely impressed with the dedication he had to put in.
In the movie he definitely looked and moved like a boxer!
Robert De Niro first had to train to get into shape for the epic movie Raging Bull, then
he gained 60 lbs to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in his darkest hours!
De Niro first went into a full-on training routine for a year as a boxer, and actually
competed in 3 organized boxing matches, winning two of them!
Jake LaMotta himself trained De Niro, so I’m not surprised that he was able to actually
win not just one, but two matches.
After gaining about 20 lbs getting into training shape, De Niro then went on a grand tour of
fine European dining to gain 60 lbs in 4 months!
Martin Scorsese, the director, was extremely concerned with De Niro’s health, since he
gained the weight in only four months.
60 lbs sounds pretty ridiculous right?
That brings us to the next guy on the countdown!
60 lbs not enough?
How about 67 lbs?
That’s the amount of weight that Jared Leto put on for his role in Chapter 27.
Try walking around with a 65 lb dumbbell and see how well you get around!
Or try just a 30 lb dumbbell!
This is what makes De Niro and Leto’s weight gain so ridiculous!
In order to gain all that weight, Leto microwaved pints of ice cream mixed with soy sauce and
olive oil!
What?!
I understand the olive oil, but soy sauce?!
That doesn’t sound appetizing at all.
All the sudden weight gain put a lot of pressure on Leto’s body.
He ended up getting gout, which is basically arthritis caused by high levels of uric acid.
He also ended up in a wheelchair, because of the gout and the sudden increase in stress
associated with the weight gain.
He said he’d never do it again, which I’m gonna say, is a good idea!
Christian Bale makes it back on the list with his role in The Machinist.
He dropped down to 121 lbs for the role, which means he lost 65 lbs along the way.
To get down to 121 lbs, he ate only an apple and a can of tuna a day.
That and a lot of cigarettes!
The funny thing is, Christian Bale actually didn’t need to lose all that weight.
The scriptwriter was only 5’6, so he put in his own weight in the script for scenes
where the main character writes his weight on the wall.
I’m guessing he did this because he didn’t know who was going to play the role.
Christian Bale decided he wanted a challenge and decided to go for those weights anyways!
He actually wanted to lose even more weight, but doctors told him he could die if he lost
even 5 more pounds.
Pffft….talk about dying to get a part!
And now we’re at #1 for the best celebrity transformation on our countdown, but first,
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At #1 we have Christian Bale…..again!!
You know why?
Because he’s the master at gaining AND losing weight!!
What did Christian Bale need to do right after he lost over 60 lbs?
Oh, nothing, just gain back all the weight he lost and then some for the best superhero
franchise out there.
He went from 121 lbs to 230 for Batman Begins, a weight gain of over 100 lbs in just 6 months!
He actually gained too much weight to look like Bruce Wayne, and had to lose 40 lbs.
Lose 65 lbs, then gain 109 lbs, then lose 40 lbs.....just insane!!
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