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welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
most difficult movie roles ever you're
staying in here until you feel better
where is it
this rule's destroying you for this list
we'll be looking at the roles that
reportedly put the biggest strain on
actors whether emotionally or physically
often involving severely unhealthy
weight changes what movie roles seem
most challenging to you let us know in
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number 10 the joker the dark knight
never start with the head the victim
gets all fuzzy he can't feel the next
playing a character like batman's
deranged arch nemesis the joker can take
a lot out of an actor joaquin phoenix
said he quote felt overwhelmed and
terrified about the role maybe he heard
what heath ledger had to put himself
through well you look nervous
is it the scars
you want to know how i got them in order
to portray the clown prince of crime
ledger spent about a month isolated in a
hotel room to tap into the madness of
the joker including how he speaks and
laughs
ledger also reportedly struggled with
insomnia claiming to only get around two
hours of sleep per night tragically
ledger passed away before the dark
knight was released but his performance
cemented him as an absolute master of
his craft
it's
gone
number nine nina sayers black swan the
life of a ballerina can be very
controversially grueling and demanding
as natalie portman learned firsthand
when she starred in this psychological
thriller not so controlled seduces not
just the prince but the court the
audience the entire world come on to
play nina a ballerina who puts herself
through hell to play the dual lead roles
in swann lake portman put herself
through the ringer the already
diminutive portman reportedly lost 20
pounds to play nina and worked out for
five hours a day to achieve the look of
a ballerina she also paid for her own
dancing lessons i know it's been a
struggle
yeah
but you just had a breakthrough this
morning
tomorrow's yours just give a great
performance and you won't have to worry
about lily or anybody else production
took a massive toll on portman who
experienced a concussion and a rib
dislocation if we didn't know any better
we would have guessed portman was a
professional ballerina all along that
was perfect
number eight boyd bible swan fury which
way is the front
which way is the front
hmm all around this kid because it's
german shia labeouf had a surprising
role in this world war ii drama but his
commitment to his character was so great
he could have carried a movie all on his
own in order to really feel like his
character a member of an american tank
crew in germany labeouf reportedly went
months without showering ripped out his
tooth and cut himself in the face lebeth
also reportedly converted to
christianity to play the religious boyd
stop all right don't trying to divert
your heat you mind if i continue
invading germany his co-stars were
reportedly so bothered by lebouff's lack
of hygiene and other method acting that
he was made to stay in a bed and
breakfast separate from them during
filming we're just glad we didn't have
to smell the buff's devotion to his
craft you get your ass up there boy i
hope you escaped
number seven eileen wuornos monster i
always wanted to be in the movies
when i was little i thought for sure one
day
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i could be a big big star the glamorous
charlize theron went through one of the
most stunning on-screen transformations
ever to play real-life serial killer
eileen warnos to play warnos theron put
on 30 pounds shaved her eyebrows off
wore dentures and had her gorgeous
blonde hair thinned and fried theron
also had tattoo ink applied to her skin
to give her an appropriately ravaged
look i don't have an experience per se
but um
i'm a real i'm a real hard worker faryn
is all but unrecognizable as warnos and
she won a well-deserved oscar for her
work it takes more than a physical
transformation to deliver a great
performance but theron definitely gave
this role her all and the thing no one
ever realized about me or believed was
that i could learn
i could train myself into anything
number six fonzin les miserables we know
that anne hathaway is an exceptionally
talented and charming actress but les
miserables showed us just how devoted
she was holy god is there no mercy
if i go to jail she'll die
in this adaptation of the musical based
on victor hugo's novel hathaway plays
the destitute and desperate fonsin who
contributes some of the movie's most
heartbreaking moments this includes the
show-stopping ballad i dreamed a dream i
had a dream my life would be
so different from this how i'm living
hathaway who along with other cast
members did live singing for the film
lost 25 pounds from her already thin
frame and had her actual haircut on
camera
don't mock me now i pray
it's hard enough i've lost my pride when
you see her work in les miserables you
can easily see how hathaway won an oscar
for it
number five jake lamotta raging bull
robert de niro didn't just act like
middleweight boxer jake lamotta in
martin scorsese's uncompromising biopic
he became lamada to play the prize
fighter de niro trained for three months
with the real lamada and won two boxing
matches to prove he could carry himself
in the ring the movie also chronicles
lamada's post-boxing career as an aging
stand-up comedian ah seriously folks
it's a thrill to be
standing here before you wonderful
people tonight
well in fact it's really standing
to achieve the right look de niro gained
about 60 pounds how'd he do it by
feasting all around france and northern
italy during a filming break i'm tired
of worrying about weight all the time
that's all i used to think about was
wait wait wait
after a while you know you realize other
things in life this apparently took such
a toll on de niro and his appearance
that scorsese likened de niro's
breathing to an asthma attack a new
disturbing standard was set for method
acting devotion
number four vladislav spielman the
pianist
the pianist a movie about real-life
polish jewish pianist vladislav spielman
and his struggles to survive in nazi
occupied warsaw is incredibly powerful
this is in no small part thanks to
adrian brody's oscar-winning performance
as spielman yeah
so this
food's more important than time to
embody the titular pianist brody took up
the piano lost 31 pounds by subsisting
on a light daily diet and did away with
his car and apartment brody's dedication
resulted in a truly haunting performance
one that transcends acting to become
something more like a transformation
it's also a devastating depiction of
historical horrors that must never be
forgotten
number three christy brown my left foot
daniel day lewis's commitment to his
roles is well known and when the camera
stops rolling day lewis stays in
character
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in his first oscar-winning performance
day lewis played christy brown a writer
and painter whose cerebral palsy left
him only able to control one appendage
his left foot and you taped all of it
with your left foot
i didn't do it with my
day lewis was so devoted to the
character that he had others on set
assist him with eating and stayed in his
wheelchair his posture also resulted in
him breaking two ribs his commitment
reportedly rubbed some of the crew the
wrong way but there's no questioning day
lewis's unbelievable skills as an actor
i think you're brilliant yeah
i'm only as brilliant as my patients
number two hugh glass the revenant
for years movie fans wondered what it
would take for leonardo dicaprio to
finally win an oscar well he finally did
it for 2015's the revenant a performance
with enough dedication for multiple
oscars no deal
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you killed my boy
to play real life for trapper hugh glass
who endured an amazing story of survival
dicaprio himself went through extreme
difficulties filming mostly outdoors
during the bitter cold of a canadian
winter dicaprio learned how to survive
in the elements which included starting
a fire eating raw bison liver despite
being a vegetarian and sleeping inside
the carcass of a dead animal he also
swam in freezing rivers numerous times
which may have resulted in hypothermia
talk about getting into character and
staying there i ain't afraid to die
anymore
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number one trevor resnick the machinist
most of the performances on this list
won oscars but this wasn't even
nominated then again the academy usually
doesn't go for movies like the machinist
an intense psychological thriller about
a factory worker racked by insomnia and
psychological anguish
you know so little about me
what if i turn it
to a werewolf or something to play
machinist resnick christian bale dropped
62 pounds and weighed only about 120
pounds during filming to do this he
would consume an apple water and a cup
of coffee each day he reportedly wanted
to go down to 99 pounds but this was
shut down due to health concerns if you
were any thinner you wouldn't exist
no
after filming was over bale had only six
months to bulk up for his next role the
role batman
as we now all know christian bale will
go far for his roles
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