For the sake of art, creative people are ready for a lot. They are not at all like the others, a faceless crowd demanding bread and circuses.
These are bright personalities, original, interesting, attracting crowds of fans precisely with their charisma, inner light, always standing out from the rest.
Therefore, it should not be surprising that the actors are ready to commit the craziest deeds in order to transform into their hero. Let's talk about the most memorable.
10. Brad Pitt
The film with his participation "Fight Club" has become a classic. This actor also contributed to it. The Hollywood smile of a charming blonde has broken more than one heart.
But for the sake of this role, Brad went to the dentist to chop off his tooth. The man, not without reason, considered that his hero could not have such a beautiful snow-white smile. After the shooting was completed, he again turned to the dentist for help.
9. Clint Eastwood
The film “Unforgiven” has become one of Clint Eastwood’s greatest successes. He was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and received 4 of them, including both as the best film and the best directorial work.
Clint Eastwood himself became the director of this western, he also played one of the main roles. When he read the script for this film, he was absolutely delighted with it.
But he realized that he would have to age for the role. And he did not, like many, use makeup, but simply bought the rights to the painting and waited about 10 years to reach the desired age.
8. Danny De Vito
The drama film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” became the second film in world history, which received all the Oscars in the 5 most prestigious nominations.
The creators of the picture decided that they would work in a real psychiatric clinic. They chose Oregon State Hospital, the only one in which doctors read Kesey’s novel.
The head doctor of the hospital also went to meet the crew and gave his consent. Moreover, he himself became a consultant to the picture and even starred as a doctor.
During rehearsals, which took about 2 weeks, the actors tried to get used to the role. They were constantly in the department, participated in social therapy sessions, and ate with the patients.
The actors became so accustomed to the role that it was difficult to distinguish who was really sick and who was only playing. By the end of filming, they practically lived in the department, slept in the same beds as the patients. Often they did not even know that they were being filmed.
And this could not but affect the psyche of the film crew; some had clouding of their minds and nervous breakdowns. And Danny De Vito made an imaginary friend.
7. Nicolas Cage
The actor prepared very well for the shooting of the film “Leaving Las Vegas”. For this, he went to Dublin to examine his behavior after alcohol.
He got drunk for 2 weeks. All this time, a friend was filming Nicholas on camera. Later, the actor studied his speech and movements.
Cage did not stop there. He began to go to specialized clinics to talk with alcoholics.
But it was especially difficult for him to prepare for his role in the "Ghost Rider". The actor thought that the way of moving can be copied from snakes.
In order to maintain a terrible atmosphere on the set, he did not talk to anyone in between takes.
A special appearance also helped him to get used to the role: a skull painted on his face, black lenses in his eyes and images of ancient Egyptian pictograms on his jacket.
6. Margot Robbie
In the film "Tonya against all," Margo had to play a professional skater. The girl took this role very seriously. To get used to it, she spent 4 months on ice. Five days a week she spent at least 4 hours in training, tried so hard that she received a herniated disc.
This film really exhausted her. The difficulty was that the girl had to quickly transform. The scenes were shot in random order, so in the morning she could play a 15-year-old teenager, and in the afternoon, an adult woman. Margo admitted that it was incredibly difficult to do it, but she managed.
5. Robert Pattinson
In 2017, the film “Good Time” was released, in which the main character, Connie, wants to rob a bank, because cannot find work and money to pay bills. With him, he takes a mentally retarded brother who falls into the hands of the police. Connie feels that he must save Nick.
The main role went to Robert Pattinson. To reincarnate, a couple of months before the start of filming, he moved to the apartment of his hero. He prepared for the shoot in advance: he slept right in the clothes on the bed, did not change the sheets on her, did not open the curtains.
He also went out into the street as a character, went down the subway, worked at a car wash. And interestingly, no one recognized the celebrity.
4. Daniel Day-Lewis
The selflessness of this actor, what he is capable of for the sake of the role, is amazing. He, if he sees fit, can take himself to the extreme.
So, for the sake of filming in the movie "My Left Leg", he deliberately broke 2 ribs. He got the role of a character who had cerebral palsy. Due to injury, the actor could likely hunch over. He did not get up from a wheelchair, his colleagues dressed and fed him too.
And when he starred in the "Crucible", he had to live in a colonial village of the XVII century. An exact copy was erected on the set. Daniel quickly got used to it, was able to do without running water and electricity. Moreover, he was able to build a house without modern tools.
3. Jared Leto
It’s good if you got the role of a positive and kind hero. Those who have to play the villain may too well transform into this image.
So Jared needed to play the Joker in the movie Suicide Squad. To better understand his hero, he began to spend time alone. In addition, he talked a lot with psychiatrists and their most neglected patients.
He managed to penetrate the brain of a mad villain and even reincarnate into it. He became so accustomed to the image that he began to send colleagues unpleasant gifts.
So, Margot Robbie, his beloved girl on the screen, along with a love letter received a dead rat. He explained his behavior by the fact that the Joker was not used to reckoning with the personal space of people, he would do just that. But the producers did not like such training in the role, so they decided to hire psychiatrists.
In the movie Blade Runner: 2049, Jared had to play a blind man, the scientist Nyander Wallace. To play his part well, he began to wear opaque lenses and walked on the set very slowly. An assistant helped him move. This time the director appreciated the idea, because admitted that thanks to her, a special atmosphere was created in the studio.
2. Ryan Gosling
To play in the Memory Diary, he decided to move to South Carolina. There he began to study carpentry. And he did it. The table in the film was made by him.
1. Michelle Williams
She needed to reincarnate as Marilyn Monroe to play in the film "7 Days and Nights with Marilyn."
She prepared for the role very seriously: she listened to her interview for 6 months. I reread all her poems, diaries, letters, then to reproduce the manner of her speech.
For the sake of the role, she gained weight, worked with the choreographer, bandaging her knees with a belt to get her signature “eight” when walking. She also went for 3 hours in makeup.