10 Actors Who Gained Weight For A Role

For most Hollywood stars, a good appearance and a fit figure is one of the most important components of success.

If an actress who regularly plays sexy beauties suddenly adds a dozen extra pounds, then a fat cross is put on all her roles. In men, the situation, although not so critical, is generally not much different.

The more surprising are the cases when the actors voluntarily agree to spoil the figure for the sake of getting the role, and then they also manage to get back into shape in a short time.

10 Renee Zellweger, Bridget Jones’s Diary

In 2001, when Renee Zellweger was approved for the role of Bridget Jones, she was already a famous person: several major works and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

When it became known that it was she who would play the main character, fans of Helen Fielding’s books were indignant: the actress was slender, so everyone believed that she would ruin the film adaptation with her thinness.

What was everyone’s surprise when she gained 13 kg to fully match the image. After filming, she again lost weight to her usual, and in 2004 she repeated the “feat” and recovered again for the sequel.

9. Charlize Theron, “Monster”

The most striking transformation for the worse, if we talk about women. A real beauty and a sex symbol, she, at first glance, was the least suitable for the role of a prostitute and serial killer Eileen Wuornos, but the script hooked her so much that she added 14 kg without hesitation, and the ugly makeup completed the transformation into a “monster” in the eponymous movie.

“Oscar” for the main role, which she received, did not raise a single question: Charlize really deserved it.

8. Christian Bale, “American Hustle”

First of all, the actor is known for his ability to quickly lose weight (sometimes up to extreme 54 kg) and get back in shape, but for some roles he had to do the opposite.

The movie “American Hustle” showed us a chubby Christian Bale, whose weight exceeded 100 kg, and there was not a trace of the press.

His children, as the actor himself said, liked dad’s round belly, but he himself was not happy with him.

7. Matt Damon, The Informant

Matt Damon at the time of filming The Informant had already proved everything to everyone: he demonstrated an excellent acting game (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Good Will Hunting) and excellent physical shape (at that time 3 parts of Jason Bourne’s adventures had already been released).

The new role was a new challenge for him, so he had to gain 15 kg. Unfortunately, the work was in vain: the picture did not receive awards, the ratings were also not exorbitant.

6. Jared Leto, “Chapter 27”

Apparently, wanting to compete with Christian Bale, the always slender handsome Jared Leto added 30 kg for the role of John Lennon’s killer.

The biopic “Chapter 27” was promising, but in fact turned out to be a rather boring film, in which Leto’s transformation was almost the only thing that deserved attention. Only 19% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes is proof of that.

5. Christian Bale, “Vlast”

It is unlikely that there will ever be a daredevil who can surpass all the transformations of Christian Bale, since it is not only difficult, but also dangerous to health.

So, for the film “Power” he recovered by 30 kg, which is not so easy at his age (the actor is 45 years old).

The most offensive for his fans is that he was not given an Oscar for this role, but the drama received a statuette for the best make-up. Many quite reasonably believe that naturally gained 30 kg is much more significant than makeup.

4. Colin Farrell, “The Lobster”

Farrell never had a perfect torso, but he was always in shape, so few expected that he would dare to gain 20 kg for his role in The Lobster in just 8 weeks.

His diet consisted mainly of pizza, cheeseburgers and ice cream, which he .. drank. Yes, he himself told reporters that he put it in the microwave, melted it and drank it like a cocktail so as not to chill his throat. Radically and hardly useful, but effective.

3. Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Here

Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here plays ex-military and FBI agent Joe, who saves girls from the clutches of pedophiles.

According to the actor himself, his hero is a man with a difficult fate, suffering from violence since childhood. Despite his combat experience, he is still fragile and vulnerable inside, so he tries to compensate for this with a menacing appearance.

Especially for the role, Joaquin grew a solid beard and gained about 10 kg, but unlike other stars on our list, it was mostly muscle mass, which in general only benefited.

2. Jennifer Aniston, “Cake”

In 2013, the comedy We’re the Millers was released, where in one of the scenes 45-year-old Jennifer Aniston dances a striptease, looking very sexy. Everyone admired her figure and beauty, but a year later she showed that she was not afraid to look unattractive.

For the drama “Cake”, the actress gained less than 10 kg, but due to the lack of makeup, the effect seems to be stronger. According to Aniston herself, she did not specifically try to gain weight and even continued to eat right, she simply completely abandoned training and stopped restricting herself in the number of calories.

She really liked working without makeup (only scars were drawn to her), but she was sorry for the spoiled figure: then she spent more than one month to bring it back to normal.

1. Matthew McConaughey, “Gold”

To get into the image of gold digger Kenny Wells, McConaughey also had to overeat pizza, hamburgers, drink high-calorie drinks and forget what a gym is.

Gaining 46 kg at the age of 20 in a short time is not a joke, which friends warned the actor about, but he nevertheless decided to accept the challenge and coped with it perfectly.

It is not known whether this will subsequently affect his health, but the transformation has already had an impact on his career, and positively: although the film was not favored by critics, most considered Matthew’s game incomparable.