The Insane Body Transformations These Actors Went Through For Their Roles

Matthew McConaughey

McConaughey played a Texas AIDS patient who was given 30 days to live in the movie Dallas Buyers Club. In order to look like a man who was dying from an advanced auto-immune disease, he was forced to restrict his caloric intake by roughly 70%, and he had to burn an additional 1,800 calories a day from a strict exercise routine. 

Advertisement

Next Page →

The More You Know

  • It took only 8 days to film "The Blair Witch Project".
  • Jim Caviezel was struck by lightening while he was on the cross in, Passion of the Christ.
  • "E.T." and "Poltergeist" started from the same script.
  • In Iron Man/Avengers, J.A.R.V.I.S is an acronym for “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.”
Next Page →