14 Actors Who Took Their Roles Too Far
From starving themselves to breaking bones.
Published 11 years ago in People & Lifestyle
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To play a Fedex employee who becomes stranded on a desert island for four years, Tom Hanks lost 55 lbs spent weeks up to his neck in water and caught a nasty infection, which almost led to blood poisoning. It required surgery. Though in this case, the hard work paid off as Hanks received an Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe for the part.
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Did you know the entire time Joaquin Phoenix was making rounds on talk shows with his overgrown beard and proclamation of quitting acting to become a rapper, it was all for a movie role? Yeah, we didn't see Im Still Here we bet no one else did either, but what a really strange way to get into character.
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When he took on the role of Max Cady in Cape Fear, Robert DeNiro was so dedicated to his characters appearance that he actually paid a dentist 20,000 to destroy his teeth to look as if he spent years in jail. DeNiros yuck-mouth seems to have paid off, as received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for the role, which is still lauded today as one of the best characters on film.
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To become The Joker in the film The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger locked himself up in a hotel room for a month to perfect the villains sinister laugh. He also reportedly kept a notebook filled with crazy writings that he called the Jokers personal diary. The erratic behavior paid offalbeit tragicallywhen he posthumously received a number of awards for the role, including a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.
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