Presenting you the names of such actors who went to Crazy Extremes for their roles. Have a look on it:
1. Ranveer Singh
Movie: Padmavati
Well after watching the teaser of Padmavati, we can say that Ranveer Singh stole the whole show. His action, expression everything was fabulous. But do you know the hard work Ranveer did on himself to get into Alauddin Khilji’s shoes? Ranveer Singh isolated himself and stayed locked inside his apartment to get into the skin of Khilji.
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2. Alia Bhatt
Movie: Udta Punjab
While talking to media, Alia Bhatt revealed that shooting for gang rape scene was way too much emotional and challenging for her. While shooting for that scene, She just wanted to get done with that scene and go home. She also said that she was very traumatized after filming that scene.
ALia bhatt said,
“I took a few workshops to get the right body language. Like, I move my hands and roll my eyes a lot while speaking but these people (in villages) have dead-pan expressions because they can’t waste time in expressing themselves to you. They have other things to do.”
Alia bhatt also had been given strict instructions to not wash her hair for atleast 10 days in order to obtain the bihari girl look which she was seen donning in the film. It takes real dedication to go through 10 days of the hairy mess.
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Movie: Black Swan
Well we are aware of the fact that Ballet is one of the most difficult dance form and it require an long period of time to learn. But Natalie Portman went to crazy extremes to learn Ballet. Reports suggest that she practiced ballet for eight hours a day for months. Also while practicing she dislocated a rib.
4. Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Movie: Raman Raghav 2.0
Nawazuddin Siddiqui played the role of serial killer in the film. Nawazuddin being the stupendous actor he is did not compromise in the movie and opted for method acting. which in turn adversely affected his mental health. Talking about his role, Nawaz said,
“Somewhere I could not tell what is right and what is wrong. Those lines in my life got blurred. Then what happens is that film gets completed but it stills remains alive in your life as it is said that ‘if you take something from the character then it also takes a lot of things out of your life.”
5. Varun Dhawan
Movie: Badlapur
His performance and character sketch got him the best appreciation of his career so far. But as a cost to all this he had to lose an important relationship.. Badlapur had vast effect on Varun Dhawan. He said,
“Badlapur messed me up and I had gone crazy. So many people around me left me and one of them was my girlfriend.”
6. Anne Hathway
Movie: Les Miserables (2012)
Reports suggest that to get into the character of Fatine, for around week or more Anne Hathaway ate nothing but oatmeal paste.
7. Anushka Sharma
Movie: NH10
Talking about NH10, Anushka told media that,
“I was in depression when I did the scene of being molested in NH10,” she had said.
“Being punched, kicked in stomach and all that, I was just thinking how humans can be this way. We aren’t exposed to so much in life other than reading in newspaper. But to shoot such scenes are extremely traumatising.”
8. Kate Winslet
Movie: The Reader (2008)
Kate Winslet turned into a superstar overnight after Titanic. After that she gave many hit films. So far her role in ‘The Reader’ has been one of the most difficult role for her. According to her, this is one performance that took a toll on her health. It took her over month to get over the character she essayed in the film.
9. Leonardo DiCaprio
Movie: The Revenant (2015)
For this film Leonardo won Oscar for Best Actor. Do you know for this film, Leonardo slept in animal carcasses and also ate raw animal organs too. His hard work paid off!
10. Heath Ledger
Movie: The Dark Night (2008)
For this film, actor locked himself away in a London hotel room for a month. His hard work paid off as he won Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2009. Tragically he never got to see his work on big screen as he passed off before release.
11. Mathew McConaughey
Movie: Dallas Buyers Club
To play the role of Ron Woodroof McConaughey lost around 47 lbs. In an interview he said that, “As soon as I hit 143lb [10 stone 3lb], I started losing my eyesight. I would do five push-ups and be sore. I would run 30 feet and my legs would lock up.”
12. Sylvester Stallone
Movie: Rocky Balboa (2006)
13. Randeep Hooda
Movie: Sarabjit
He lost 18 kgs weight in 28 days. While talking to Mumbai Mirror how painful this transformation was for him. He was quoted saying, “I was a muscular 94 kg at the time and while it’s easy to burn fat, it’s hard to lose muscle. I was expecting to shoot the portions when Sarabjit was a pahalwan in his village and then slowly shed weight. The decision came as a shock and led to a period of physical and mental torture.”
In order to achieve the skeleton body look, Randeep Hooda went on a strict diet supervised by his sister Dr Anjali Hooda-Sangwan which allowed him only 500-600 calories per day, with a few cheat days where he was allowed starch. Proteins and greens constituted the major part of his diet. He credits his sister’s monitoring of his health as the reason he was able to pull this off.
The entire process was grueling for Hooda,
Like I do with everything else, I overdid this too, going on a zero calorie diet without realizing the body needs sugar to function. The lack of it almost drove me crazy. I was thinking about food all the time, there were days when I was so hungry I couldn’t sleep. There came a point when I wasn’t even allowed an apple and was so emaciated I could barely walk.
At these times he would crave food items like Parathas with white Makkhan and Hot Chocolate Fudge from Nirula’s often sketching them to compensate for not being able to actually eat them. He stopped socializiong and drink on New Year’s Eve made him ‘dizzy’ and forced him to return home.
14. Priyanka Chopra
Movie: Mary Kom
Priyanka Chopra donned muscular look for this look. She had to undergo rigid training, regular practice and a strict diet. What was really tough for PC was to shed that muscle for her next release DIl Dhadakne Do which was visible to some extent in the movie.
15. Manoj Bajpayee
Movie: Aligarh
There is no doubt that he is one of the most finest actor our industry have. For his film Aligarh, Manoj Bajpayee rehearsed going out of the way to get into the shoes of his character.
16. Farhan Akhtar
Movie: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Farhan transformed his body into an athlete body. His hard work paid off as he won many awards for the movie.
17. Aamir Khan
Movie: Dangal
He first increased his weight to essay the role of aged Mahavir Phogat and then decreased it to justify both the look of young Mahavir Phogat. The dedication levels were so huge that he didn’t care about his health. The whole process was devastating and traumatising for Aamir Khan as he felt problem in breathing along with many other issues.
