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Jamie Dornan as soon as stalked a lady as a way to put together to play serial killer Paul Spector in The Fall. “It is a actually dangerous reveal: I, like, adopted a lady off the prepare someday to see what it felt wish to pursue somebody like that. I actually saved my distance,” he revealed to the LA Occasions. “She obtained off a number of stops sooner than I used to be planning, so I mentioned proper, I’ve to decide to this. I adopted her round a few road corners after which was like: What are you doing?”
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Aaron Eckhart confirmed to Howard Stern that he as soon as pretended to have misplaced a baby in order that he may attend a baby loss assist group in preparation for his function in Rabbit Gap. “It is very delicate to go in there, after all it’s. I did the analysis. The gathering may be very quiet. There’s 10 folks, {couples}. [Their children had passed away] very not too long ago, it is recent. You are sitting in kind of a circle. Then one particular person goes, then two, three, then it will get to me. And by that time you are simply so flushed that you just simply begin going and giving the small print of the story.”
He mentioned he “misplaced it” when he was talking. “You actually consider that you just simply misplaced a baby. You might be as near actuality in that sense as doable. I do not wish to be impolite to individuals who have misplaced a baby, however yeah, you’re feeling proper there, you’re feeling like your character.”
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Ben Foster took performance-enhancing medicine to arrange to play the well-known bicycle owner Lance Armstrong in The Program. “It is not one thing I would suggest to fellow actors,” he mentioned, declining to call the precise drug. “These are very severe chemical compounds and so they have an effect on your physique in actual methods. For my very own investigation it was vital for me privately to know it.” Nonetheless, he mentioned it took him a very long time to bodily and mentally get better from taking the medicine.
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In preparation for Alpha Canine, Foster lived on the streets of Los Angeles, “pissing my pants like everybody else” in order that he may put together to play an unhoused veteran that will get hooked on crystal meth. He did not take crystal meth to arrange, however he implies he did take different medicine. “In all transparency, I rolled with these guys on Alpha Canine, and I purchased their medicine, however it’s important to ask your self how far you may go and nonetheless come again. I had been shedding mates to crystal meth. The proximity to it was sufficient that I did not have to take that door,” he mentioned. He additionally used eye drops for glaucoma to provide his eyes the look of somebody hooked on meth.
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One final Ben Foster instance — he actually ate handfuls of dust to arrange for his function in Lone Survivor. “You place your self in a headspace, I suppose, like [American] footballers headbutt one another to remain within the recreation. As actors you discover moments to maintain according to what the day is demanding,” Foster mentioned when requested about his actions. “I do not know. I may need been making an attempt to assist out the make-up division, or I may need simply wished to eat some dust. It isn’t like I get up within the morning and be like, ‘You recognize what I will do immediately is simply eat handfuls of dust.’ However…you do because it feels.” For the movie, the actors all needed to attend a month-long boot camp with actual Navy Seals and, in response to Foster, “simulate[d] operations with reside hearth.”
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Don Cheadle mentioned he bought medicine in order that he may perceive his character in Brooklyn’s Most interesting, although he might have been joking. “After I knew I had the function, I went right down to the native pharmaceutical distributor, obtained a packet, and began slinging medicine. I would by no means carried out it earlier than. I am a technique actor; I needed to perceive it from the bottom up,” Cheadle instructed Blackfilm. Nonetheless, he “determined being an actor was higher than promoting medicine.”
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Shia LaBeouf reportedly took acid to arrange for his function in The Essential Loss of life of Charlie Countryman — after which was truly on acid whereas filming some scenes the place his character is on acid. “There is a approach to do an acid journey like Harold & Kumar, and there is a approach to be on acid,” he mentioned. “What I do know of performing, Sean Penn truly strapped as much as that (electrical) chair in Lifeless Man Strolling. These are the fellows that I look as much as.”
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He additionally had a tooth pulled out for his function in Fury. After Los Angeles dentists refused to assist him, he says, he “obtained it carried out by some man in Reseda subsequent to a Radio Shack, and he did not ask too many questions.” Costar Logan Lerman revealed LaBeouf additionally reduce his personal face proper in entrance of him and saved opening the cuts for the movie. Oh, and LaBeouf refused to bathe, in response to one supply, who said Shia was making an attempt to “higher perceive how his character would have felt dwelling within the trenches.”
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To arrange for his function in Good Time, Robert Pattinson basically went undercover in New York. He obtained a job at a automobile wash — although he solely lasted a day — went out in character and took the subway. He additionally lived in the identical residence as his character within the movie — a basement residence in Harlem. “I by no means opened my curtains, did not change the sheets your complete time I used to be there, for these two months, and I’d simply sleep in my garments,” he revealed.
“There was this girl who lived upstairs, and he or she saved making an attempt to see what was occurring as a result of she thought I used to be such a weirdo. I saved actually bizarre hours, and I’d run in and rapidly shut the curtains. I used to be like this freak dwelling within the backside of the basement,” Pattinson continued. “I used to be on my own the entire time. I solely ate cans of tuna the entire time. I in all probability have mercury poisoning now as a result of I ate it simply out of the can. That is all that was there: tuna, sizzling sauce, and Nespresso capsules.”
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Benedict Cumberbatch lived in Montana for 2 months to arrange for his function in The Energy of the Canine, studying how you can herd cows and castrate a bull (amongst different issues) in order that he may convincingly play a rancher. He additionally did not wish to break character throughout filming, so he initially refused to wash as he was rehearsing for the movie. He gave that up by the point filming began, however he did decline to have his garments washed as a result of they helped him keep in character. He was additionally impolite to costars whereas behaving in character between takes, as soon as upsetting Jesse Plemons by calling him “massive boy.”
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Ryan Gosling did a littleeee an excessive amount of preparation for the function of George Harvey in The Pretty Bones, and it ended up costing him the function. After he was forged, he began ingesting melted ice cream and gained 60 kilos as a result of he “actually believed [the character] needs to be 210 kilos.” Nonetheless, he did not talk this with director Peter Jackson, who “had a distinct concept of how the character ought to look.” When Gosling confirmed up on set to movie, Jackson fired him. Stanley Tucci was forged within the function as an alternative.
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On the opposite excessive, Christian Bale misplaced over 60 kilos getting ready for his function in The Machinist by subsisting on a weight loss plan of cigarettes and whiskey, together with an apple and a single tin of tuna. He obtained right down to 120 kilos and wished to maintain going to underneath 100 kilos — producers for the movie truly needed to cease him as a result of they frightened it would critically jeopardize his well being.
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Equally, to arrange for his function in The Pianist, Adrien Brody misplaced 30 kilos by basically practically ravenous himself and “barely ingesting water.” He additionally left his girlfriend, gave up his residence, bought his automobile, disconnected his telephones, and moved to Europe with two luggage and a keyboard, then spent months getting ready by practising piano 4 hours a day, promoting all of his belongings, and studying Szpilman’s memoirs to immerse himself within the Holocaust.
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This wasn’t the one time Brody dedicated this difficult to a job. For The Jacket, he truly requested to be left alone in a room in a straightjacket so he may perceive how it will really feel for his character.
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Oh, and he actually obtained actual braces for Oxygen, saying, “I did not know the way fucking painful that was till they caught in pliers and ripped them off my enamel on the finish.”
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Matthew McConaughey additionally needed to lose a ton of weight to play a person with AIDS in Dallas Patrons Membership — over 50 kilos. In reality, he ate so little that he truly began to go blind. McConaughey initially refuted this however later acknowledged, “After I obtained right down to the place I misplaced 43 kilos, I did begin shedding my eyesight. I observed it acutely, and it needed to do with the burden loss.” Fortunately, medical doctors had been in a position to assist, and his imaginative and prescient got here again.
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Ashton Kutcher was so dedicated to taking part in the function of Steve Jobs in Jobs that he adopted the Apple founder’s weight loss plan of “fruitarianism” — which is principally vegetarianism with an emphasis on fruits. Kutcher particularly began ingesting carrot juice consistently, as Jobs had reportedly additionally carried out. At different instances, he was consuming nothing however grapes. This weight loss plan landed him the hospital with pancreatitis twice.
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Gary Oldman was equally hospitalized after he ate solely “steamed fish and many melon” to play Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy and finally misplaced 30 kilos to play the function.
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Girl Gaga says she lived as Patrizia Reggiani for a yr and a half whereas getting ready for and filming Home of Gucci — and that she spoke with an Italian accent for 9 months of that (regardless that filming solely took a number of months). Proper from the beginning, she dyed her hair, feeling that she couldn’t use the accent as a blonde. “I began to reside in a means whereby something that I checked out, something that I touched, I began to take discover of the place and after I may see cash,” she additionally mentioned, including that she started studying and practising “as an train” as a result of she thought ‘discovering her pursuits in life, that I’d turn into a photographer.”
To arrange, Gaga additionally wrote an 80-page biography of Reggiani, carb-loaded with pasta and bread to achieve weight for the function, and studied panthers to channel them within the function. After which, throughout filming, Gaga needed to rent a psychiatric nurse on set as a result of she saved coping with vomiting and fatigue after channeling private trauma into scenes.
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To arrange to play a trans man in Boys Do not Cry, Hilary Swank lived as a person for 4 weeks. She sure her chest and packed a sock in her pants.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is especially well-known for his methodology performing and function preparation. For The Crucible, he lived on the uninhabited chook sanctuary island they had been to movie on. He even helped construct his character’s house. “It appeared that the vital factor to do was some form of bodily work,” Day-Lewis mentioned. “So I spent a while on the island, as a result of a lot of the story of these folks’s lives was contained inside the way in which they took possession of that land.”
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He additionally lived within the North Carolina wilderness for months to arrange for The Final of the Mohicans, studying expertise like monitoring and skinning animals, constructing canoes, constructing canoes, and combating with varied weapons like tomahawks and a 12-pound flintlock that he may shoot whereas working (which he had on him always, even throughout his Christmas dinner). He solely ate issues he had killed himself – the director Michael Mann revealed, “If he did not shoot it, he did not eat it.”
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In an much more excessive instance, to arrange to play a falsely accused man Within the Identify of the Father, Day-Lewis lived in a jail cell for 2 days (some stories recommend it was three) with no meals or water; males would additionally knock on the door each 10 minutes so he couldn’t sleep. He additionally had the crew verbally abuse him and throw chilly water on him, and reportedly underwent 9 hours of mock interrogation afterward.
He additionally misplaced 50 kilos for the function — and he spent weeks earlier than filming talking solely in an Irish accent.
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He reportedly would exit and decide fights with strangers in Rome whereas filming Gangs of New York, and he grew to become an apprentice butcher to learn to reduce meat. And whereas filming, Day-Lewis refused to put on a hotter coat as a result of it wasn’t period-accurate and caught pneumonia — he then refused to be handled with fashionable medication as a result of it would not have existed within the nineteenth century.
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However maybe his most notorious function preparation was for My Left Foot. He spent weeks in a wheelchair getting ready to play a person with cerebral palsy, and he was spoon-fed to approximate his character’s expertise consuming. He additionally discovered to color and kind together with his foot, like his character did. As soon as on set, he remained in a wheelchair and typically needed to be carried over set items and gear. He spent a lot time hunched in a wheelchair that he truly broke two ribs.
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Joaquin Phoenix — who can be recognized for his methodology performing — principally had his jaw wired partly shut to arrange for his character’s behavior of talking of the facet of his mouth in The Grasp. “I truly went to my dentist and I had them fasten these steel brackets to my enamel on the highest and the underside, after which I wrapped rubber bands round it to pressure my jaw shut on one facet,” Phoenix revealed. “After a pair weeks, the bands, they weren’t actually sturdy sufficient to form of maintain it, so I ended up eliminating the rubber bands, and I nonetheless had these steel brackets in, and so it made me consistently conscious of my cheek. You recognize, they’d these pointy ideas so that they’d tear up the cheek a little bit bit, so I simply then was consistently conscious of it.”
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Lastly, Leonardo DiCaprio went exhausting in his preparation for The Revenant, consuming uncooked liver to arrange for his character’s weight loss plan and even sleeping in an animal carcass. He spent a ton of time within the wilderness, and throughout the shoot, he endured “freezing chilly and doable hypothermia consistently,” going out and in of freezing rivers and tenting in extraordinarily low temperatures. His work paid off — DiCaprio lastly received an Oscar for the function. However…was all that actually essential?