25 Actors Who Transformed Themselves For A Role

Fans Could Hardly Recognize Actors After These Drastic Transformations

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Excellent actors have the eerie capability of slipping into just about any role as if it were their own alter ego. Heath Ledger, for instance, was famous for the bizarre lengths to which he would go to do understand and embody the psyche of his character. Daniel Day Lewis is another stellar example of method acting at its finest- and pickiest.
Actors go to varying lengths to become chiseled, ripped, athletic or bony for a role. This entails a wide range of bizarre techniques, like eating meagre 500 calorie meals a day (the average is supposed to be about 2000) to adopting unique preparation methods. While this commitment to one's craft is admirable, dramatic physical transformations don't come without a fair share of unpleasant to downright unhealthy consequences. This video takes a look at several such transformation stories which were either a result of hard-core training and dieting, prosthetics or actors playing by their own rulebook.
Gary Oldman appears in Darkest Hour as a freakishly accurate Winston Churchill navigating the British through the second World War. His transformation supposedly entailed smoking cigars worth $30,000, which eventually wrecked the actor's guts and made him get a colonoscopy. Matthew McConaughey, Michael Fassbender, Jonah Hill, Jared Leto, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Chris Pratt, Anne Hathaway and Chris Hemsworth on the other hand feature as the distinct flagbearers of physical transformation.
Watch the complete video to truly get an understanding of these transformations, what they entailed and how the actors prepared for them!

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