Agreed. I am trying to figure out where annual Love is coming from.
Not to mention the toll that the pharmaceuticals required will take on their long term health. I am curious to see how long the charade that the transformations that actors make are possible naturally.
Christian Bale is best known for it. He's both lost and gained tremendous amounts of weight for various roles. For the Machinist he became skeletal weighing 120 lbs at the most. Then he beefed up to play Batman. Then he lost a bunch of weight to play a junkie. Then he gained a ton of weight to play Dick Cheney. And that's not all of the examples.
Though even Christian Bale has seemed to realize that drastically changing his weight is unwise. After he did Cheney, he said that he was thinking that he shouldn't do it any more.Christian Bale is best known for it. He's both lost and gained tremendous amounts of weight for various roles. For the Machinist he became skeletal weighing 120 lbs at the most. Then he beefed up to play Batman. Then he lost a bunch of weight to play a junkie. Then he gained a ton of weight to play Dick Cheney. And that's not all of the examples.
De Niro is valid. As would be Tom Hanks for Marooned. Start slim, get fatter or vice versa. You can't have two actors playing the same part. But if I was a casting director and was casting for someone who was playing a person who was fat, then I would cast a fat actor. Likewise slim for slim. Within reason.
Maybe I should've phrased my question a little better. Do people gain weight for a role (I'm not talking muscle, I'm talking just plain gaining weight) nowadays? The Untouchables was made more than 30 years ago.
Christian Bale gained 40 pounds for Vice only 4 years ago and which was the same yeah Charlize Theron put on 50 pounds for Tully. This yeah Mark Wahlberg put on like 30 pounds for Father Stu. And that leaves aside all the people who are putting on a ton of muscle, which again is dangerous if you do it too quickly.
It is not possible to gain a lot of muscle in a short period of time without using methods such as black market injections and steroids. And yes, it is dangerous because the muscles grow too quickly, the new muscle is actually weak, and the fibers are easily torn under stress. The 'roid muscle is basically baby soft and not conditioned as natural muscles are, so they have a much higher chance of serious injury, such as torn ligaments and tendons. Very painful and requires surgery to fix.
