How Do Celebrities Lose Weight Fast For Movies

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Many actors will transform their bodies to get in character for a role. Sometimes that includes gaining or losing weight formovie and TV roles.

Some of the same actors who have gained an extreme amount of weight for roles have also gone on diets and even stopped eating for their Oscar-nominated and winning roles as ballerinas, journalists, and more.

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Murphy, who plays the father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer told The New York Times he had to lose quite a bit of weight for the role.

Speaking with The Guardian, Murphy elaborated: I was running on crazy energy; I went over a threshold to where I was not worrying about food or anything. I was so in it, a state of hyper something. But it was good because the character was like that.

Murphy withheld from revealing exactly how much weight he lost or his diet, saying, I don't want it to be, 'Cillian lost x

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Costar Emily Blunt, who plays Oppenheimer's wife in the film, told Extra, He could only eat, like, an almond every day. He was so emaciated.

Blunt and Damon, who also stars in the Christopher Nolan film, told Entertainment Tonight Murphy sometimes skipped out on cast meals because of his diet.

Beyoncé told Oprah she wanted to lose weight for Dreamgirls, which followed the history of the musical group during the 1960s and '70s. Paramount Pictures

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The Cuff It singer went on a liquid diet for the 2006 movie, telling Oprah at the time she lost 20 pounds in two weeks.

It was difficult because I love food. I love to eat. I did a fast, Master Cleanse, for 14 days, Beyoncé said of wanting to transform for the role in order to channel performers who were thinner than her in the '60s.

It was difficult, she added, saying it was her choice to lose the weight. Everybody was eating Krispy Kremes around me. I was grouchy, but I did it.

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Portman was on acarrots-and-almond diet, workingfive-to-eight hours a dayfor a year to slim her already trim figure down for the lead role in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.

There were some nights that I thought I literally was going to die, Portman told EW. It was the first time I understood how you could get so wrapped up in a role that it could sort of take you down.

After filming ended, the singer quicklyreturned to carbs. At the time, she had also announced a pregnancy with her now-husband, choreographer Benjamin Millepied, who she met on set.

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I could see why this industry is so f----d up, because ... I would literally look at myself in the mirror and I was like: 'Oh my God! I had no shape, no boobs, no a--..., 'she told the Daily Mail. All you saw was the bone. I was like 'this looks gross.'

Pratt said heditched beerto take on the role of Peter Quill. He also divulged his workout routine with a personal trainer and nutritionist toMen's Fitness.

I actually lost weight by eating more food, but eating the right food, eating healthy foods, and so when I was done with the movie my body hadn't been in starvation mode, Pratt toldPeople magazine.

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Christian Bale wasn't even asked by director Brad Anderson of The Machinist to drop to 122 pounds for the film. He toldthe BBChe wanted to do it all on his own.

I was intrigued by a perverse nature of mine just to see if I can go beyond what I've been told is actually safe and OK, and see if I could push the limits, Bale said.

Bale's daily diet consisted ofconsuming vitamins, running, and eating an apple and can of tuna a day.He then gained nearly 100 pounds, getting back up to220 pounds in about five monthsto play the Caped Crusader in Batman Begins.

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This diet makes me break out, so I love that, Hathaway joked toAllure. Nothing like living on hummus and radishes and then be all, 'And I got a pimple. Yeah!'

The actress also said onChelsea Lately thatshe became a vegetarian for The Dark Knight Rises, living off of kale and dust for training.

Hanks has lost and gained weight for a few roles, but his 55-pound weight loss for 2000's Castaway was his most extreme diet.

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''Oh, those FFs, man. Those fries from France…, said Hanks. The only thing I did not give up was coffee ... Nope, wasn't about to!

Hanks previouslygained 30 pounds for the role of Jimmy Duganin 1992's A League of Their Own and subsequentlylost 26 poundsto play AIDS-stricken Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia.

Director Sir Richard Attenborough had been searching for an actor to play Gandhi for 20 years when he offered British actor Ben Kingsley the role. Columbia

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Kingsley, whose father is of Indian descent, underwentextensive preparationfor the role — reading biographies, studying photographs, shaving his head, and losing 20 pounds on Gandhi's very own vegetarian diet.

While talking about his role to The New York Times, Kingsley said, ''When I have totally immersed myself in the mechanical, logical preparation of a part, if I and my craft are totally bonded and fully exploited, something else in me is awakened and begins to inform my work.

In 2010, 50 Cent shocked fans witha photoof himself looking unrecognizably skinny for a role as a promising college football player struggling with cancer.

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The rapper revealed he dropped 55 pounds for the movie All Things Fall Apart usinganine-week liquid dietand working out multiple times a day.

At one point, a day's rations were a boiled egg, a couple of crackers, and a celery stick, said Hemsworth, who shared a photo of his weight loss while prepping for the role on Instagram.

'Red Sparrow' was the first time that I was really hungry, and disciplined. I can't be in character as an ex-ballerina and not feel like an ex-ballerina, Lawrence told Vanity Fair.

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The actress said she couldn't wait to eat European street food when she was done filming the ballet sequences of the film.

I can't work on a diet. I'm hungry. I'm standing on my feet. I need more energy. I remember having a meltdown, freaking out that I had eaten five banana chips, she said.

Dan Stevens in 2017 vs. 2011 during a panel for Downton Abbey at the summer TCA tour. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

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It was for a role. It's always me, just different incarnations, different roles, different costumes and different sizes, Stevens said on The Graham Norton Show in 2013.

The dieting was pretty hard-core. I was losing 7 poundsevery week, McConaughey told the Daily Mail. I'd have a Diet Coke, two egg whites in the morning, a piece of chicken, then another Diet Coke...That was rough.

I got down to [143lbs] and I was always hungry, and irritable... My body resembled a baby bird with its mouth open, crying, 'Feed me, feed me, ' and you realize momma bird ain't going to feed you. It's hard, he added.

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The actor also ate tapioca pudding with a tiny sugar spoon slowly to make it last longer.More recently, McConaugheygained 40 pounds for a role in Gold.

He wasn't the only one who lost weight for the role. Jared Leto said he stopped eating to lose over 30 pounds for Dallas Buyers Club.

I just basically didn't eat. I ate very little, said Leto to EOnline.com aboutdropping to about 116 pounds to play a transsexual with HIV and then AIDS in the 2013 movie.

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It was kind of nerve-wracking. You're doing it for a part, but it's something so close to you, Collinstold Elle.com. There's a fine line between, are you going to fall back into it, are you not? But I was so aware of why I was doing it — for a greater purpose — and also I was more mature.

Adam Driver plays Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. You can see his frame in the trailer for Silence to the right. Mike Coppola/Getty Images, Paramount Pictures

Driver and Andrew Garfield playedJesuit priests who travel to Japan to find their mentor. After traveling for two years from Portugal, Martin Scorsese wanted it to look like they were dropping weight.

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He asked us to lose a lot of weight. I didn't know how much that was going to be. Driver told Interview of Scorsese. And, I can't control what's happening in scenes, but I could control when I ate food.

That visual part of the storytelling, I don't think I've ever taken it to the extreme before, he added. It's an interesting thing. You're so hungry and so tired at some points that there's nothing you can do—you're not adding anything on top of what you're doing.

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