12 Actors Who Gained Weight For Their Roles

Fluctuating weight like actors do in Hollywood is dangerous. We are talking about what they risked to play the parts. Dacre Montgomery wasn’t aiming for perfect with that Stranger Things bod, just authentic. Brendan Fraser returned to acting rejuvenated and ready to try something new with The Whale. And new indeed, he was carrying around close to three hundred pounds of prosthetics. So many, in fact, he was actually developing muscles to carry all the extra weight around! David Harbour dropped all that weight for Stranger Things just to pack it back on to play Santa Claus in Violent night. Mark Wahlburg only had thirty days to shoot a film and had to gain twenty pounds to do it. What he put himself through to accomplish that was just insane. Like, more insane than the documentary about the guy who only ate McDonalds for a month. Natalie Portman faced her own challenges when developing muscle due to her vegan lifestyle, getting that protein intake meant relying on substances outside of food alone. Tom Hardy will gleefully point out that The Dark Night Rises’ Bane isn’t all muscle. How they managed to make him looks so huge required some trickery! Ryan Gosling chugged back melted ice cream to gain thirty pounds only to lose it to another actor in the video! Zac Efron has openly admitted to struggling with his body image in Baywatch. He’s said that dehydration to make his veins protrude was the worst part. Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans both have the same stunt guy and that stunt guy had to eat nearly three dozen times a day to keep up with Hemsworth! Pattinson abandoned his morals. Jared Leto has even admitted to going to extreme with the weight fluctuations.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:30 Dacre Montgomery
01:10 Brendan Fraser
01:51 David Harbor
02:24 Mark Wahlberg
03:13 Natalie Portman
03:42 Tom Hardy
04:11 Christian Bale
04:47 Ryan Gosling
05:42 Zac Efron
06:22 Chrises and Their Double
06:59 Robert Pattinson
07:35 Jared Leto
08:12 Outro

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Written by: Kydra Ryan
Narrated by: Kydra Ryan
Edited by: Olena L

[ColliderMoviesandTV]

Whose transformation shocked you the most?! 😳

[lordvenjix]

Committed to the role. While some actors rely on prosthetics for movie transformations, plenty of others actually lose or gain weight to embody their characters.

[Ariverse_]

Christian Bale's transformations for the roles were just amazing

[jamesstutz]

What surprised me the most is Brendan Frasier gaining weight. After seeing him in George of the Jungle and Journey to the center of the Earth. Just to name a couple.

[tinklvsme]

A lot of males have body issues, u just don't hear about them. Dennis Quaid does after a huge weight loss for Tombstone. They left out these men were drinking beer and only beer to gain weight.