Here is a lost of some of the craziest things actors have done for their movie roles.
These actors have went to great lengths to be the best they can be for their roles.
Daniel Day Lewis
While preparing for Gangs Of New York, Daniel Day Lewis learned to speak Czech, build a canoe, learned to box, refuse to bathe, live in a shack, and listen to Eminem.
He also stayed in character as Lincoln even while using his phone.
Joaquin Phoenix
One of the craziest things he has done was for the film The Master.
Phoenix played a man with a deeply clenched jaw, and so he paid a dentist to add in brackets and rubber bands to his teeth in order for his jaw to stay shut.
Leonardo DiCaprio
For his role as an undercover cop in The Departed, DiCaprio met with several people in Boston with ties to the Irish mob and gained 15 pounds of muscle.
The Rock
In 2014’s Hercules Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson requested actual metal chains to make his struggle real when it came to a scene in which his character attempts to break free of his chains.
He claimed that he also blacked out each time he did the scene.
Tom Cruise
The film Collateral is one of few instances in which Cruise plays a villain.
To portray a trained killer realistically, the actor received weapons training and practiced being unnoticeable.
Often, he would go out disguised as a delivery man and hoped that no one would recognize him.
Robert Pattinson
When it came time to play a dirty and despicable bank robber for Good Time, Robbert Pattinson did just that.
He spent 2 months in a basement, never opened his curtains, didn’t change his sheets, and slept in the same clothes.
Pattinson admitted that he managed to freak out his neighbours during this time.
Robert De Niro
To prepare for his roles, Robert De Niro has done a number of unnecessary things.
For Taxi Driver, he once worked as a cab driver for a month.
He spent several months living in Sicily in preparation for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II.
Even learned how to play the saxophone for New York, New York.
These aren’t even the craziest things he’s done.
During the Russian roulette sequence in The Deer Hunter, De Niro insisted a real bullet be placed in the gun.
Despite the fact that the bullet was removed before the trigger was pulled, it’s still a work hazard, to say the least.
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