Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables

Anne Hathaway really lived up to the title in Les Misérables. In order to lose weight for the role, Hathaway stuck to a strict diet of dried oatmeal paste. She also banished her husband to the U.S. so she could further envelop herself in the character's dark mental space. Her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" brought critics to tears and earned her an Academy Award nomination, but Hathaway spent the majority of filming in a state of psychological torment.