Ashton Kutcher ate a diet consisting of only fruit , nuts , and germ while fix to act Steve Jobs , and ended up being hospitalized twice for pancreatitis .
This post hold in conversation of intense dieting changes , restrictive eating , weight fluctuation , and binge eating .
1.Jacob Elordisaid that while filmingPriscilla, he ate apound of baconevery day. He said, “I averaged, like, a pound of bacon a day. It’s not that noticeable because I’m quite long, but I was the biggest I’ve ever been."
2.Anne Hathawaywas only eating two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste per day while she was playing Fantine inLes Misérables. “I had to be obsessive about it—the idea was to look near death,” sherecalledabout the experience. She also said that the diet was really bad for her health-wise,saying, “That weight loss was not a long-term good thing for my health, and it took a really long time to come back from it. And I was still really sick because of it.”
3.Chris Messinagained weight for the movieLive by Nightand ended up drinking copious amounts of beer. “It was fun. It was a lot of fun,” hesaid. “[I] just stuffed my face. Beer — lots of beer — bagels, pasta. I would have a beer by the bedside table, and I woke up in the middle of the night to pee, and I’d just chug the beer.”
4.Rob McElhenneygainedover 50 pounds for the seventh season of his showIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.He explained that he started off with “three chicken breasts, two cups of rice, and two cups of vegetables” per meal, but soon realized that he could get nearly the same amount of calories by eating one Big Mac. He shared that one of his meals was a “high-calorie protein shake” and “every once in a while, [he] would eat three donuts.”
5.Zoë Kravitz revealed that she “ended up drinking clay” for her role inThe Road Within.She needed to lose weight for the role andexplained, “I tried to do it the healthiest way as possible, even though it’s not healthy to do. I ended up drinking clay, because it cleans out your body and fills you up. I was eating, like, a Mason jar of pureed vegetables a day and running.”
6.Ashton Kutcher decided to replicate Steve Jobs' fruitarian diet, where he only consumed fruit, nuts, and seeds while filming the movieJobs. He ended up in the hospital twice because ofpancreatitis. When talking about the experience, hesaid, “I was, like, doubled over in pain … My pancreas levels were completely out of whack, which was really terrifying.”
7.While filmingBlack Swan, Natalie Portman’s diet was very restrictive and she was “just living on carrots and almonds.” Shesaid, “There were some nights that I thought I literally was going to die.”
8.Whilepreparingto star inHercules, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had to eat seven meals a day. He also said that he drank “one cup of Nemean Lion Blood upon rising” and that it was “served fresh and warm,” so do with that what you will…
9.Beyoncé did the Master Cleanse for 14 days while gearing up for her role inDreamgirls. The cleanse consists of only consuming a concoction of lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup. She latersaidthat the first thing she did after wrapping the movie was “eat a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts.”
10.Christian Bale ate an extremely restrictive diet for his role inThe Machinist.Each day all he would consume was black coffee, a single apple, and a tin of tuna. He alsosaid, “I came up with the absolutely brilliant method of just smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey to lose weight.” Because he was losing so much weight, the movie’s producers had to stop him because of the health risks.
11.While filmingThe Revenant, Leonardo DiCaprioinsistedon eating raw bison liver so that he could live as closely to his character, Hugh Glass, as possible. The prop department had originally created a fake piece of meat that was made of jelly, but Leo didn’t think it looked realistic enough.
12.Sylvester Stallone ate some enormous breakfasts while bulking up for his role inCop Land. Onemealconsisted of “five pancakes smothered with peanut butter and whipped cream, a bowl of oatmeal, two bagels with more peanut butter, ten fried eggs, French fries and cheesecake.” And while he didn’t mind the diet too much at the time, hesharedthat it was more difficult for him to lose the weight after filming was complete.
13.Chris Hemsworth had to lose weight for his role inIn The Heart of the Seaandexplainedthat “At one point, a day’s rations were a boiled egg, a couple of crackers, and a celery stick.”
14.Matthew McConaughey had to lose weight for his role inDallas Buyers Cluband his dietconsistedof “a Diet Coke, two egg whites in the morning, a piece of chicken, then another Diet Coke.” And as a “treat,” he’d have a tiny amount of tapioca pudding.
15.Finally, Ryan Gosling was originally cast to star inThe Lovely Bonesand felt that he needed to gain weight for his character. So, he’d melt containers of Haagen Dazs ice cream and “drink it.”
