The Insane Body Transformations These Actors Went Through For Their Roles

Making a Murderer

Leto is, what industry folks call, a method actor. He lives like, acts like, and refers to himself as the name of his characters for long periods of time prior to actually playing them on camera. In this particular instance, his depiction of Mark Chapman caused him to gain 67 pounds in three months.

The More You Know

Ronald Reagan was originally announced as the lead for Casablanca. The proclamation turned out to simply be a ruse to keep the actor’s name in the press.
In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
Brad Pitt and Edward Norton actually learned how to make soap in Fight Club.
While shooting 'Batman Begins' (2005) in Chicago, a drunk driver panicked and crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an invading alien.spacecraft

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