Whereas some actors depend on prosthetics for film transformations, some truly acquire or shed some pounds to embody their characters.
Renée Zellweger famously gained 30 kilos to play the titular function in 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, repeating the method once more for the 2004 sequel, Bridget Jones: The Fringe of Cause. By the point she filmed Bridget Jones’s Child, nevertheless, the Oscar winner was bored with speaking about her weight.
“I placed on a number of kilos. I additionally placed on some breasts and a child bump,” she informed British Vogue in August 2016. “Bridget is a superbly regular weight and I’ve by no means understood why it issues a lot. No male actor would get such scrutiny if he did the identical factor for a task.”
To Zellweger’s level, male stars extra typically make headlines once they lose a variety of weight for a task, as Matthew McConaughey did for the 2013 movie Dallas Consumers Membership. The Mud star shed almost 50 kilos to play Ron Woodruff, a real-life Texan who based an underground medicine distribution group after being identified with HIV. (McConaughey received a Greatest Actor Oscar for the function.)
“I did it in as wholesome a manner as I discovered doable,” the Greenlights writer informed the BBC in February 2014, including that he “chewed a variety of ice” in the course of the shoot. “I met with a nutritionist. I gave myself 4 months to lose the load. I had my programmed meals, misplaced 3.5 kilos every week — like clockwork — and acquired all the way down to my desired weight, which turned out to be 47 kilos lighter.”
Preserve scrolling to see which celebrities have gained or misplaced weight for film roles:
