Acting is not as easy as it looks. We all are awe-inspired by seeing our favorite actors and actresses and we wonder if we could be like them. But being like them comes at a hefty amount of hard work because their job is tough and they have to go under transformations for their respective roles for the movies they are working in. This makes things very difficult for them, but they achieve success in their transformations, only to give us inspiration.
We have made a list of actors and actresses that have undergone huge transformations for their movie roles!
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1. Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan is among the sexiest men from Asia, and that comes with having a world class body. He maintains it well and does a lot of workout for that, but it was for the role of Ethan Mascarenhas, for the movie, Guzaarish. He put on over 15 kilograms of weight by eating a lot of fried food, and then he lost all that weight for his role in Krrish.
2. Matthew McConaughey
Among all of his work, he gained maximum popularity and respect after his role in Dallas Buyer’s Club, in which he acted as a patient dying of AIDS. He lost over 47 pounds in six months time, by cutting down his diet on two eggs whites, one diet Coke and a plain fillet of chicken.
3. Halle Berry
Halle Berry took the transformation to a hard level after she did not take a bath for over a month to play the role for one of the movies called Jungle Fever, in which she portrayed a crack addict. She would go to the crack dens with a cop. This makes her one of the most stunning women on the television.
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4. Randeep Hooda
Randeep Hooda takes the honor for having the most intense transformation. He had to portray the role of a prisoner who is an Indian and gets sentenced to death by the neighboring country, Pakistan. He lost over 18 kgs in less than 28 days. Playing the role of a well-built man in the first half of the movie, no one would believe his this epic transformation.
5. Christian Bale
Christian Bale is the king of transformation. He had lost over 65 pounds to play the role in the movie The Machinist, and then he built himself back for the Batman series. And currently, he has gained a lot of weight for a biopic movie he is working on.
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6. Vikram Chiyaan
Despite suffering from an incurable and rare disease that causes him to age faster, he makes his entry in the list with his transformation in the movie I in which he plays the role of Lingesan. This is one of the most iconic movies from the South Indian Movie industry.
7. Matt Damon
Matt Damon had taken a risk and had lost around 40 pounds for the role of a drug-addicted veteran. He was out under medical supervision after filming as a result of such drastic loss.
8. Jack Nicholson
To play the role of a ruffian in a mental asylum, Jack Nicholson along with his cast of the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest went to visit an actual mental asylum, and some of their experiences were portrayed in the movie really well.
9. Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron had to play a challenging role of Aileen Wuornos who was a roadside prostitute who becomes a serial killer. Charlize put on weight to portray the character, and she received an Oscar. She stated that she got so much into the character that she could feel how Aileen lived.
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10. Tom Cruise
Collateral is among the best movies that Tom Cruise has acted in. He did the role of an invisible assassin, and for the role, he donned a FedX outfit and would get to so many LA establishments, pretending to deliver packages. He practiced with real ammo to better his shooting skills.
11. Adrien Brody
Playing the role of a jew pianist, at the time of the Nazis, who loses everything, is very difficult, which Adrien Brody did. For understanding how it felt to have lost everything, he abandoned all that he had; even his girlfriend and we salute his commitment.
12. Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger played the role that defined his career, The Joker in The Dark Knight. He locked himself up in a room for six weeks and worked on his posture to his accent. Moreover, he kept a diary in which he wrote as the Joker.
13. Farhan Akhtar
Farhan Akhtar has done a mind-blowing job in playing the role of Milkha Singh in the movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. He would train aggressively for over 6 hours daily and followed the routine with strictness to achieve the pace of professional runners.
14. Aamir Khan
Dangal is among the biggest hits of Aamir Khan in which he plays the role of Mahavir Singh Phogat, a national level wrestler, who wants his daughters to get him a gold medal at the international levels. He appears in scenes in which he looks healthy, lumpy and old and scenes where he is all ripped.
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15. Natalie Portman
Ballet is among the toughest dance types, and Natalie took her role for the movie Black Swan as a ballerina really seriously. She trained intensively, five hours daily, to learn ballet, swimming, and cross-training and she followed this routine strictly for over a year.
(L) Natalie Portman/Instagram (R) shesaid
