Certain actors go to extremes when it comes time to prepare for a role.
And these Hollywood celebs were not messing around!
Check out how far they went in terms of diet and exercise to prepare for big movie parts.
To prepare for Top Gun: Maverick,Miles Teller said, For me to gain weight, that was the toughest part, man. For breakfast, it was like six eggs, and then, you know, you work out, and then you have a shake and then it was two lunches.
Each lunch would be like a chicken breast, a full potato, and some broccoli, and I would have two of those and then I remember there would be another snack after that. And I remember for dinner specifically, it was 20 ounces of certain fish or steak. And so youre just eating so much. Thats really what I didnt enjoy.
Cooper packed on the pounds to star inAmerican Sniper.
The Hollywood star said, It was a real shock to my body. If its pizza and cake, thats one thing. Putting 6,000 calories a day in your body gets old quick.
His diet for the role included five meals a day.
Efron got absolutely ripped for his role inBaywatchbut it sounds like he never wants to do anything like that again.
Efron said, Really, it was so hard. Youre working with almost no wiggle room. Youve got things like water under your skin youre worrying about. Making your six-pack into a four-pack. Shit like that. Thats just not its just stupid. Its just not real.
And he missed carbs in a major way. He said, I went, like, years without eating carbs. When I shot Baywatch, I didnt have a carb for like six months. I almost lost my mind. You need this. Like, its so good.
Swedish actor Skarsgrd trained for eight months for his role in The Legend of Tarzan.
For three months he ate 7,000 calories a day and then switched to six small meals a day that he claims drove him crazy with hunger.
Talk about commitment.
Bale is known as an intense actor and he lost an incredible 63 pounds in four months to get ready to filmThe Machinist,which was released in 2004.
Every day he only ate an apple, a can of tuna, and he drank coffee.
In 2019, Bale said, Im older and I feel like if I keep doing what Ive done in the past, Im going to d**.
The rapper/actor quickly lost 50 pounds in two-and-a-half months for his role as a cancer patient in the film All Things Fall Apart.
He ran for three hours on a treadmill every day and stuck to a liquid diet to drop the pounds.
He said he didnt want to see a doctor during this training because I had to match the look in my mind. I was so into what I was doing that I wasnt really concerned with that. I just kept looking at myself in the mirror feeling like I have to be smaller. I had to match.
Hemsworth survived on only 500 calories per day and lost 33 pounds in one month for his part in the filmIn the Heart of the Sea.
Hemsworth said, At one point, a days rations were a boiled egg, a couple of crackers, and a celery stick.
Damon wasnt yet a huge star when he appeared inCourage Under Firein 1996.
In fact, it only took two days to film his scenes in the movie, but Damon lost a whopping 50 pounds for his role as a drug addict by consuming only 100 calories per day. He also ran 13 miles every day to lose weight.
But the training came at a price. Damon ended up damaging his adrenal gland and needed to be on medicine for a year-and-a-half to try to fix it.
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8 Hollywood Actors Talk About the Crazy Diet and Exercise Habits They Did for Movie Roles - Twisted Sifter
