The Insane Body Transformations These Actors Went Through For Their Roles

Michael Fassbender

Fassbender lost 42 pounds to play the role of Bobby Sands in the movie Hunger. Hunger is about a young member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who was jailed illegally and went on a hunger strike to protest his incarceration. Fassbender described this weight loss journey as "being in psychological prison..."

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