10 Stars Who Dropped Pounds or Bulked Up For a Role!
From Christian Bale to Gerard Butler, celebrities have sure been throwing the pounds around in the name of entertainment.
-Carolyn French
Christian Bale has made it perfectly clear, in his oh-so subtle way, that the amount of weight (30lbs) he dropped for The Fighter was not an enjoyable experience. However, it had to have been easier than what he managed to pull off for The Machinist, which was so horrifying that we will get back to that one later!
While scarcely eating for months on end is never fun, being obligated to kill yourself at the gym isn’t exactly a piece of cake.
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Let’s start with the stars that shrunk down in order to make their characters more believable, before moving on to those who did the polar opposite by gaining a massive amount of muscle…
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What about Donnie Wahlberg in 6th sense? Lost a bunch of weight for that brief scene
I can’t believe how much weight Christian lost for Machinist!
What about Michael Fassbender in Hunger. He went through a600 calories per day crash diet to play Irish POW and hunger striker Bobby Sands.
If a guy lost too much weight noone says nothing if is a girl, she is sick, bulimic, anorexic and a bad example. C. Bale and 50 cent are so different.
Half of these are people gaining weight, aka. taking steroids. And where’s DeNiro’s Raging Bull?