Anne Hathaway Lost 25 Pounds for 'Les Miserables': Biggest Hollywood Weight Loss?
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2012/11/13 15:42:58
SLIDESHOW: Biggest Hollywood Weight Loss?
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Anne Hathaway
Anne lost weight to play Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises,” then lost even more for “Les Miserables,” with a total weight loss of 25 pounds.
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Anne Hathaway
Anne lost weight to play Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises,” then lost even more for “Les Miserables,” with a total weight loss of 25 pounds.
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Christian Bale
Bale lost a terrifying 63 pounds to play an insomniac in “The Machinist,” by eating just apples and coffee for months. But then he had just 6 months to put it all back on plus plenty of muscle tone to play Batman.
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Natalie Portman
She’s always been svelte, but Natalie lost a further 20 pounds to play a ballerina in “Black Swan” – and so did her co-star, Mila Kunis.
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Matt Damon
Matt lost 50 pounds to play a heroin addict in “Courage Under Fire,” and also gained 30 to play a pudgy FBI agent in “The Informant!”
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Beyonce Knowles
Beyonce’s part in “Dreamgirls” was based on Diana Ross, so B took it upon herself to match the famously slim singer by losing 20 pounds – which she managed in just two weeks!
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50 Cent
Fiddy shocked the world when he posted this picture, having shed his normally huge muscle bulk to play a football star who is diagnosed with cancer in “All Things Fall Apart.”
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Renee Zellweger
Tiny Renee gained 20 pounds for “Bridget Jones’ Diary,” then lost it for “Chicago,” then put it back on again for “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.”
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Tom Hanks
Filming stopped halfway through “Cast Away” to allow Hanks to lose 50 pounds for the island scenes.
Anne Hathaway Lost 25 Pounds for 'Les Miserables': Biggest Hollywood Weight Loss?
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Anne Hathaway has spoken to Vogue about the “near-starvation diet” she was on in order to lose 25 pounds for “Les Miserables,” in which she plays the role of dying prostitute Fantine. The already slender actress also spoke about the long term effects of the weight loss, even after filming had finished.
Before “Les Miz,” Hathaway had already lost a lot of weight thanks to her role as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises,” for which she adopted a vegan diet and went through 10 months of weight training and martial arts. But in order to play the emaciated Fantine, Hathaway ate just two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste per day. She told Vogue that she “had to be obsessive about it” because “the idea was to look near death."
"Looking back on the whole experience” Hathaway says, “it was definitely a little nuts.” She also says that she was in “a state of deprivation — physical and emotional” after the shoot, and that she “couldn't react to the chaos of the world without being overwhelmed.” She says that her husband, Adam Shulman, was instrumental in helping her to feel like herself again: “He gets what I do and who I am and supports me in it, and that's pretty awesome.”
Check out the gallery, and decide whose weight loss you think was the most dramatic.
Top Opinion
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lurx: the soda jerk 2012/11/13 18:25:15
Vigo Mortenson. He actually starved himself for his role in "The Road".
63 pounds, he must have been nearly dying.
Although he did have a lot of muscle compared to me and being male it is easier to lose weight rapidly, but still that showed enormous commitment on his part. Especially after he put it back on in such a short time.
I'm not an actor so it's hard to say if I'd do that, but if I was really committed to my part and the money behind it was good, then I'd probably be able to do it, just would make sure to have a doctor check with my once a week so that my organs aren't failing.
not by choice, Actress have a choice.