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Gayle King, Kandi Burruss & More Celebs Who Proudly Admitted To Gaining Weight In Quarantine. These stars got real about gaining a few pounds while in quarantine, and we love them for it!
- Full Metal Jacket
- Father Stu
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- American Hustle
- And in... Vice
- Bridget Jones' Diary
- The Informant!
- Chapter 27
- The Lovely Bones
- And in... Blue Valentine
Vincent D'Onofrio holds the record for the most weight gained by an actor for a movie role, after he gained 70lbs to play Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket. While the character was initially written as a "skinny redneck," director Stanley Kubrickdecided that Leonard would have more impact were he bigger. D'Onofrio injured his knee ...
Mark Wahlberg ditched the gym for eating 7,000 calories a day, including at least a dozen eggs, steak, a half roast chicken and a "nightcap" consisting of oatmeal, apple sauce, jam, almond butter and molasses before bed, to play a boxer turned priest in his upcoming film, Father Stu. His aim was to gain 30lbs for the role, but within weeks of shari...
As creator and star of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, McElhenney gained 60lbs to play "Fat Mac" simply because he thought it would be funny. While he started eating plenty of chicken and rice to gain the weight, he soon realised it was a lot easier to just eat two Big Macs, and then added Krispy Kreme donuts, a lot of wine and melted ice-cream ...
Christian Bale is probably the best known actor in Hollywood when it comes to extreme weight loss and gain for roles, and he gained 43lbs to play a con-man in American Hustle. He told People: "I ate lots of doughnuts, a whole lot of cheeseburgers, and whatever I could get my hands on. I literally ate anything that came my way. I was about 185 and w...
That didn't stop Bale from trying the weight gain and drop again though, when he played Dick Cheney in 2018's Vice. He gained 40lbs and transformed into the former Vice President via prosthetics and make-up, but the role may have turned Bale off drastic transformations in future. The actor told Press Association: "Everything hurts now, I've got to ...
Bridget Jones is pretty much a straight-sized woman, rather than the overweight singleton we are made to believe in this classic rom-com, but Renee Zellwegerstill had to gain quite a bit of weight to play her. The actress gained around 30lbs to play Bridget in the first film and its sequel The Edge of Reason, but only put on a few pounds for the th...
Matt Damonput on 30lbs to play an executive who exposed a price fixing-scandal while covering up his own extortion, and didn't find it that taxing at all. Speaking at the movie's launch at Venice Film Festival, he said: "It was very, very easy to gain the weight. It was very, very fun, probably the funnest time I had working, because I didn't have ...
To play Mark David Chapman, the man who assassinated John Lennon, Jared Leto packed on 67lbs through a rather disgusting diet that involved drinking microwaved ice-cream mixed with olive oil and soy sauce to help speed up the weight gain. It worked, but it also left Leto with gout, high cholesterol and even trouble walking. He told Digital Spy: "I ...
Another fan of drinking melted ice-cream was Ryan Gosling, who used the tactic to gain 60lbs to play a grieving father in The Lovely Bones. However, the weight gain was for nothing, as Gosling was replaced by Mark Wahlberg by director Peter Jackson. Gosling told The Hollywood Reporter: "We had a different idea of how the character should look. I re...
Gosling put on less weight for Blue Valentine, but managed to keep his role. Both he and Michelle Williams put on weight to make the story of the dissolution of a couple's marriage more realistic, and went head to head to see how much they could put on. Director Derek Cianfrance said Williams was the winner, though: "She ended up winning. She gaine...
- Chris Hemsworth, Thor. Of all the actors who had to pack on mass for a movie, few in recent memory have taken to the task with such zeal, and notable success, as Chris Hemsworth when he landed the part of Thor.
- Christian Bale, The Machinist. In The Machinist (2004), Christian Bale plays the role of Trevor Reznik, a machinist with severe insomnia. The lack of sleep leads to severe weight loss, so Reznik becomes extremely thin.
- Chris Pratt, Guardians Of The Galaxy. “Three or four hours a day of just consistent, ass-kicking hard work.” Is how Chris Pratt, star of the film 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' ditched 60 pounds in six months.
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Southpaw. Gyllenhaal gained 15lbs of muscle to play a middleweight boxer in the movie ‘Southpaw,’ by working out six hours a day for six months, including at the Las Vegas gym of Floyd Mayweather, the champion boxer.
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- Robert De Niro – “Raging Bull” (1980) De Niro set the bar for physical transformations by putting on 60 pounds, then a record, to portray boxer Jake La Motta in the later stages of his life.
- Vincent D’Onofrio – “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) D’Onofrio would break De Niro’s record for Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” both shaving his head and putting on a whopping 70 pounds to play an inept, pudgy and increasingly disturbed Marine in the war film. ”
- Charlize Theron – “Monster” (2003) Charlize Theron’s physical transformation, along with a scarily intense performance, won her a well-deserved Oscar for portraying real life serial killer Aileen Wuornos in “Monster.”
- Renee Zellweger – “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” (2004) Renee Zellweger told People Magazine she went from a size 4 to 14 for the “Bridget Jones” sequel “The Edge of Reason,” packing on 30 pounds in all.
May 10, 2021 · Marlo Hampton. When the friend of the RHOA cast stepped on the scale amid self-quarantine in April 2020, she wasn't exactly pleased with her weight of 199.8 pounds. "S--t just got real!!!!" she ...
Jan 18, 2017 · Leto, 45, previously lost 30 lbs. for his Oscar-winning role in Dallas Buyers Club, gained 60 lbs. to play John Lennon's assasin Mark David Chapman in the 2007 film Chapter 27, and lost weight to ...
Nov 17, 2017 · Robert De Niro famously gained 60 pounds for his portrayal of boxer Jake LaMotta in “Raging Bull.”. According to a Vanity Fair piece about the film, he spent four months enjoying “grand European dining” to prepare. And when Charlize Theron put on 30 pounds for her Oscar-winning role in 2003′s “Monster,” she told Stumped Magazine ...
