What sacrifices did famous actresses make to get the coveted roles: Natalie Portman, Demi Moore, etc

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

It seems to us that the main goal of the actress is to be beautiful, to serve as an example for women and to take care of herself as best as possible. Of course, this is true, but Hollywood film stars are faithful to acting in its highest sense, and therefore for some roles they are ready not only to inconvenience - to change the weight or hair color, but also to much more serious changes in appearance. Sometimes you can see how, for the sake of art, recognized beauties turn themselves into real bogeymen.

Natalie Portman, Black Swan

To play a professional ballerina, the actress had to lose almost 10 kg and, after a 15-year hiatus, take up ballet again (she danced as a child, but then quit for a film career). The hardest mode of filming and dance rehearsals exhausted Natalie so much that a year later she had to undergo serious rehabilitation, and now she prefers not to remember the time of working on "Black Swan":

Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman

Miracles, as you know, do not happen, but the painfully thin Gal Gadot was able to show what a real "wonder woman" is capable of. Before filming this film, the girl was building a carter as a model, at the age of 18 she won the Miss Israel contest, and then represented her country at the Miss Universe beauty tournament. Do not underestimate this beauty, because at the same time she managed to serve in the army, and in order to turn into a superheroine, she showed that the main thing for an actress is discipline.

Unlike the previous example, the girl had to gain significant weight and build muscle. Her workouts were very versatile - in order not only to look cool, but also to perform complex tricks, the actress was engaged in kickboxing, jiu-jitsu, capoeira, rock climbing, rowing, sword fights and did not leave the gym. And her strength training program could be the envy of real athletes. In addition, the diet had to be changed - to add a lot of high-calorie protein foods, and as a result, in a short time, the thin "miss" was transformed into a real "boy-woman".

Demi Moore - Stripper and Soldier

When, in 1995, the actress began preparing for the filming of the film "Striptease", traces of cellulite were found on her body, to the horror of the entire film crew. For a woman who by that time was already well over 30, this, of course, is not surprising, but the actress almost lost her role. She was given only three weeks to get back to normal, and Demi got down to business: a combination of strict diet, massage, yoga and exercise helped her, and the shooting went on time. True, the film is still considered one of the most unsuccessful in the career of an actress.

But for "Soldier Jane", the Hollywood star had to shave her head and plunge into real hell - she turned to a trainer who had experience with special forces, and he turned her into a real fighter. The 35-year-old film star lived for a while according to the routine of American soldiers: daily long-distance running, swimming in a cold lake, hundreds of squats, push-ups and crunches, and functional training. As a result, Demi even learned to do push-ups on one arm. I must say that now, at 58 years old, the actress continues to practice yoga and twice a week recalls that she is "Soldier Jane".

Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The pretty actress, who before this role played most often carefree schoolgirls, for some reason immediately liked the director David Fincher. True, the management of Sony Pictures did not believe his instinct for a long time: Before the next meeting with the producers, the director advised the actress to go somewhere in the evening and get drunk in order to look darker in the morning. She diligently fulfilled the order and as a result got the role, however, to transform into a hacker girl, she had to endure a lot. The girl did not even have her ears pierced, but for the sake of a new role, Mara shaved her eyebrows, cut her hair like a punk, pierced her ears in four places, pierced her lips, nose and nipple. True, they painted a dragon on her back.

Charlize Theron is an actress who is ready for anything for the sake of art

And yet, the American actress Charlize Theron must be recognized as the champion among women who are not afraid of experimenting with themselves. So, for example, she had to significantly change weight several times during her career. In 2001, in order to play a girl with cancer in the film "Sweet November", Charlize lost 13 kg, and after a couple of years to work on "Monster" she was forced to gain an extra 15 kg. More recently, in 2018, the actress broke her own record, getting fat for the role of a mother of many children by as much as 22 kg:

One of the most amazing transformations in cinema is the work of Charlize Theron in the movie "Monster". The stylists did a terrifying job to transform the actress into Eileen Wuornos, a woman convicted of serial murders. Charlize put on complex makeup to make her skin look as bad as possible, she wore dentures for several months, and her hair was really ruined at the same time. However, the brave actress is ready to cut them to the root at any moment - this is exactly what happened for the sake of her role in the film “Mad Max. The Road of Fury."

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