Image from left to right: Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Charlize Theron in the film Monster (2003), Michael Fassbender in Hungry Hunger (2008).
"Actors Please Take Place" has frequently appeared on the hot search list since its inception. Compared with the competition between actors, the acting skills between several directors are more surprising. As a result, its critic Li Chengru recently claimed that he would no longer participate in the recording of "Actors Please Take Place".
Or let's take a look at how actors from foreign acting schools really treat the performance of a movie .
Matthew McConaughey lost 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of weight to play an AIDS patient at the Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and was finally recognized for Best Actor at the 86th Academy Awards in 2014. He's skinny like a bolt of lightning in the movie! Jaw-dropping!!!
Matthew McConaughey's image in the Dallas Buyers Club (2013) film
When it comes to weight loss, many people immediately think of eating less or even not eating, thinking that as long as the intake is small, it will naturally lose weight. But such a simple and crude weight loss method has been verified countless times to be ineffective, and even harm the body. Really can't hurt our bodies, let alone these big stars who are mixed up on the screen?
Matthew McConaughey's role in Dallas Buyers Club is a man who is gradually dying of AIDS, and matthew McConaughey's character in the film seems very convincing, at least in appearance completely close to the type of people in life - the winning weak, the haggard, and the inspirational story of the active struggle to bid farewell to the world with dignity.
Matthew McConaughey was also a handsome guy in his life
Matthew McConaughey was once a male star known for his penchant for running shirtless along the beach to show off his toned figure for paparazzi photographers, but Matthew McConaughey abandoned his bodybuilding figure for the role and began a strict diet, leading to a sharp weight loss. It looks shockingly thin in the film.
Matthew McConaughey's Dallas Buyers Club (2013) features AIDS patient Ron Woodroof, a real character in life, and Ron Woodrov, a drag Texas cowboy who struggled to survive during the 1980 AIDS crisis in the United States— because drugs weren't as common and containing as they are now. With his brilliant rendition, Matthew McConaughey's role has won numerous awards.
Matthew McConaughey was unfathomously ugly for the movie Dallas Buyers Club Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
But there's no doubt that Matthew McConaughey starved for the film: not because of despair, not because of an actual illness, not because of an eating disorder, but also because of a work contract. He once said in an interview with People magazine: "The people who met me at that time, they didn't just ask me if I was okay, but they would say, 'My God, we need to give you some help,' and I thought, 'Great, this is the effect I want."'
Ever since Robert De Niro played boxer Jack La Motta in Martin Scorsese's film Raging Bull Raging Bull (1980) 34 years ago, and won the Oscar for Best Actor, gaining weight for art has been widely celebrated in the press.
Robert De Niro's image in the film Raging Bull (1980).
His award was won in part because many of the judges felt that his body type change conveyed an incredible dedication, representing a fusion of actor and character personality. Among the actresses, Charlize Theron gained weight for serial killer Erin Vonos in Monster (2003) – and also won the 76th Academy Awards for Best Actress in 2004, making her the champion holder in the actress weight gainer world.
Charlize Theron gained nearly 40 pounds in order to get close to the character, she shaved her eyebrows, put on dentures, and was completely an indescribable ugly woman, and when she first appeared in front of people in the play, almost no one recognized that it was the once beautiful Charlize Theron.
Charlize Theron's image in the film Monster (2003).
Charlize Theron made a huge sacrifice for "The Witch Head", and after the film was completed, Charlize Theron struggled to lose weight so that there would be no drama to shoot later, because she did ruin her beauty with obesity.
Christian Bale nearly lost his life to lose weight in the 2004 review of the average film The Machinist, losing enough weight to go to a death camp. He then repeated this and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter(2010).
Christian Bale's image in the film The Fighter (2010).
Michael Fassbender played Bobby Sands, the leader of the IRA who died on strike hunger strike in 2008's Steve McQueen's Hunger Hounger.
But the image in the movie is really skinny and disgusting. (Michael Fassbinder's withered body silhouette is bathed in the director's beautiful lighting))
Stills from the movie Hunger Hunger, right by Michael Fassbender
Matt Damon hollowed himself out for Courtage Under Fire (1996); the male star 50 Cent lost 54 pounds in Breaking Things Fall Apart (2011); Tom Hanks lost all his muscles for Philadelphia Story Philadelphia Story Philadelphia (1993), but it was worth it. Because the Academy Award for Best Actor was given to him that year, he later repeated the feat in Cast Away (2000).
Tom Hanks' image in the film Philadelphia Story Philadelphia (1993).
Adrian Brody's shrinking figure in The Pianist (2002) earned him the Best Actor Award at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003. Jack Gyllenhaal's sunken eyes and emaciated face also caused a stir in the thriller Nightcrawler (2014).
But is this extreme weight loss method of entering the role a crucial and absolutely effective interpretation of the performance? The form close to the character is most in the service of the performance, and the actors should be very clear about this.
Stills from the film The Pianist (2002), Adrian Brody Adrien Brody
It is worth mentioning that this masochistic acting method - fat and thin, is no longer the exclusive performance skills of male actors. "Big-Eyed Beauty" Anne Hathaway starred in Les Misérables (2012) and shaved off a long hair and set a record, losing 25 pounds (about 20 pounds) of weight, becoming the actress who lost the most weight for the film in Hollywood.
Anne Hathaway confessed in an interview that in order to shoot "Les Misérables", she adopted the "Hell Diet Recipe" in order to play the classic character Fantine.
Anne Hathaway's image in the film Les Misérables (2012).
"Actually, when I was starring in Catwoman in Batman: The Dark Knight Rises The Dark Knight Rises (2012), I did 10 months of weight control and body training, but it was clearly not enough. When I saw the recipe, I felt no different from a hunger strike. Anne Hathaway said. Such crazy weight loss also left a sequelae, and Anne Hathaway said that after filming "Les Misérables", she has been in a state of mental trance and suffered from insomnia.
Natalie Portman Began dieting and frantically learning ballet to play a good ballet actress, and it was for this quick weight loss action that her performance in Black Swan (2010) won the Best Actress Award at the 83rd Academy Awards in 2011.
Natalie Portman's image in the film Black Swan (2010).
"I lost 20 pounds on Black Swan and ate a lot less than I used to. Sometimes I often feel dizzy and fall into anorexia. But when I saw the Oscars, you know I still thought it was a worthwhile 'show'. ”
Nowadays, there are stricter standards for the weight of actresses in foreign media and the public. This is a double standard, and people's evaluation of the actors and actresses for acting is completely unbalanced. That said, much more attention was paid to Matthew McConaughey's weight than Anne Hathaway's eating disorders of the time.
Renée Zellweger's image in the film BJ's Bachelor's Diary Bridget Jones's Diary (2001).
Renée Zellweger in BJ's Bachelor's Diary Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), the rapid increase in weight is described as artistic dedication and even touted as "bravery" (provided the actress quickly loses weight after finishing her job). But keeping a lean figure is taken for granted.
There is no doubt that when an actor wants to play a man or woman who suffers from a terminal illness and abandons himself, the adjustment of body and makeup is part of the job – skinny, with sunken eye sockets, despair and exhaustion.
Christian Bell shrank to 120 pounds (54 kg) in 2004's Mechanic/Ecstasy Kill The Machinist. He drank only one cup of black coffee a day and ate an apple or a can of tuna
But there is also no doubt that for real actors who love movies, their enthusiasm for work is admirable, but starvation and weight loss in life should not be too much advocated, which can mislead the public's distrust of healthy and natural bodies.
Obviously, Hollywood actors should pay more attention to the image of personal health while bringing one wonderful role after another to the audience, which is the positive energy given to society by a public figure.
And what should we young actors do for the character?
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