Oh, all of us love watching our favorite actors doing different genres of movies just to entertain us. But do you know how much does it take for an actor to transform from one movie into another? It will blow your minds away to see an actor transform for a role who he is going to play for what? 2 hours? These actors push their limits so much that sometimes it could harm them as well. There has been some drastic celebrity transformation for some of the most amazing movies ever created.
Christian Bale
Christian Bale has madly dropped down to 121 pounds for his part in The Machinist. He was shedding 63 pounds in 4 months before doctors advised him to stop since they thought he was close to death.
Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis
Both Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis lost 20 pounds for their role in the Oscar-winning movie Black Swan.
Rapper 50 Cent
Rapper 50 Cent was 214 pounds and then came down to 160 pounds by running for three hours per day and living on a simple fluid eating regimen. All that to play the part of a football player who surrenders to cancer in Things Fall Apart.
Anne Hathaway
For her part as a starving prostitute in Les Miserables, the thin Anne Hathaway needed to drop an extra 25 pounds. She was also cited saying she “feared she would collapse”.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron needed to gain 30 extra pounds to convincingly play a serial killer named Aileen Wuornos in the Monster, a role that won her an Oscar.
Chris Hemsworth
After dropping from 215 pounds (from his Avengers frame) to 185 pounds for his part in Rush in four months, Chris Hemsworth had only months to build back up with also an extra 35 pounds for his role as Thor.
Robert De Niro
Throughout the span of filming Raging Bull, Robert De Niro got torn to play Jake La Motta prior to stacking on 60 pounds to follow his character’s bulging and also decline. This is considered one of the best when it comes to the most drastic celebrity transformation for a movie role.
Hillary Swank
Hillary Swank acquired almost 20 pounds of muscle and then completely changed her shape. It was to play her award-winning part as boxer Maggie in Million Dollar Baby.
Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe gained an incredible 63 pounds. He did it for his part as a CIA agent who let himself go in the movie Body of Lies.
Jake Gyllenhaal
After dropping 30 pounds for his role in Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal went past limits for his part in Southpaw by recovering all that weight (also 15 additional pounds of muscle). He did that by going through a half year in the gym preparing actually like award-winning boxer.