17 famous actors whose bodies were forever changed due to the roles they played (18 photos)

Usually the actor's desire to fully get used to the role is only admirable.... If it doesn't go too far. And this happens sometimes.





1. To play Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy trained four times a day (he had to add 15 kg of muscle to his body)



Now his joints click strangely and some loads have begun to be felt more strongly. However, he believes that paying such a price for radical physical changes is normal for actors

2. Christian Bale lost or gained extreme weight several times for the sake of roles, and this could not but affect his health.





Christian lost just 54 kilograms to play an insomniac in The Machinist. That same year, he gained 45 kilograms to play Batman. In fact, he gained so much muscle that he couldn't fit into the Batsuit, so he had to lose weight again. According to the actor, to gain weight he ate cheeseburgers in huge quantities. But it is unlikely that he will decide on such experiments yet.

3. Jessica Chastain worries that her role as televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, who was known for wearing a lot of makeup, caused irreparable damage to her skin.



The 45-year-old Oscar winner told how she spent up to seven-and-a-half hours in the makeup chair and felt that heavy layers of makeup aged her prematurely. According to the actress, all this paint on her face stretched her skin. After removing the makeup, she felt like she looked 50 years old.

4. During the filming of Deadpool 2, Zazie Beetz was burned by a stray bullet casing during a particularly difficult shootout scene, leaving a scar on her chest.



Despite training for two months, including cardio, strength training and mixed martial arts, Zazie felt hampered by her leather bodysuit, which she described as "highly impractical."

5. Ariana Grande says that years of bleaching and dyeing her hair red for her roles in “Victorious” and “Sam & Cat” completely killed her hair and left it lifeless.



That's why she wears a high ponytail. I tried wigs and different braids, but with these hairstyles I looked ridiculous, so I settled on a ponytail with hair extensions.

6. Zendaya's hair also suffered greatly - after the actress starred in "Dance Fever"



She was only 14 years old at the time and, according to her, regular heat styling simply destroyed her hair. She didn't know how to protect them. And so it took more than two years to grow them back.

7. While filming Operation Condor, Jackie Chan performed a stunt (jumping off a slope) that resulted in him needing brain surgery



The actor still has a metal plate in his head and says he can feel the dent from the impact.

8. Jared Leto says that when he gained more than 30 kilograms for the indie film "Chapter 27", he developed gout and ended up in a wheelchair because he could no longer walk on set.



According to the actor, it was very painful, his body seemed to be in shock from how much weight he had gained. It took about a year to return to something that seemed relatively normal.

9. In 2005, George Clooney suffered a serious back injury while filming Syriana, causing him to “blew cerebrospinal fluid out of his nose.”



In an interview with Rolling Stone, the actor explained how serious the injury was and how hopeless he felt after that: he even thought about committing suicide. He lay in a hospital bed with an IV in his arm, unable to move and suffering from headaches. The operation helped him get back on his feet, but the headaches continue to this day.

10. Martial arts queen Michelle Yeoh says she tore her anterior cruciate ligament after landing poorly on the set of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.



She went through months of physical therapy but feels the injury has changed her forever. The actress was able to recover and finish the film, but admits that she could not return to her former form.

11. Angelina Jolie received a permanent scar on her face while filming Salt in 2010



In the film, she had to fight and jump from buildings, and during one scene she suffered a minor injury with long-lasting consequences. It was a seemingly "ridiculously" easy scene in which Angelina had to dive through a door while shooting a gun, but she ended up running into a piece of scenery.

12. Daniel Craig, who likes to perform his own stunts in films, knocked out his two front teeth during the filming of Casino Royale. And during the filming of Quantum of Solace, he lost the tip of one of his fingers.



Daniel lost his teeth during a fight scene with extras in Prague; They quickly brought him a dentist who replaced them. Then Craig had the tip of his finger cut off on the set of his next Bond film. And we had to stop filming while everyone was looking for the top of the actor’s finger.

13. Buddy Ebsen, the actor who originally played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, was hospitalized shortly after filming. He began to have serious breathing problems due to aluminum dust present in his makeup



Buddy had to give up the role and was replaced by Jack Haley, who used a safer aluminum paste for his makeup (although it still caused an eye infection for the actor). Buddy Ebsen outlived many of the main actors in The Wizard of Oz, but for the rest of his life he complained of lung problems caused by "that damn movie."

14. Ray Bolger, who played the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, developed permanent wrinkles on his face due to the rubber prosthetic mask that was glued to him every morning before filming.



Supposedly, the mask Ray wore was not porous, which meant he couldn't sweat and at times he felt like he was suffocating. When he finally took off the mask for good, the actor was left with scars around his mouth and chin that lasted for over a year.

15. On the set of 1996's Star Trek: First Contact, a stunt involving Alfre Woodard went wrong when an explosion knocked her and co-star James Cromwell off their feet.



Alfrie injured her arm and still bears the scars.

16. Bruce Willis lost two-thirds of his hearing in his left ear as a result of filming Die Hard.



It was more an accident than an overzealous actor or poor direction. A machine gun burst was fired too close to the actor's ear. Bruce's daughter Rumer Willis even said that her father may seem rude when he appears on talk shows, but in fact most of the time he struggles to hear the questions.

17. Tom Hanks believes his type 2 diabetes may be partly the result of him gaining and losing weight over and over again for roles.



He did this for the films Cast Away, Philadelphia and A League of Their Own.