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. 

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The More You Know

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