8 Hollywood Actors Talk About the Crazy Diet and Exercise Habits They Did for Movie Roles

Certain actors go to extremes when it’s time for prepare for a role.

And these Hollywood celebs weren’t messing around!

See how far they’ve come in terms of diet and exercise to prepare for big movie roles.

Prepare for top Gun: Hipster, Miles Teller said, “For me to gain weight, that was the hardest part, man. For breakfast, it was like six eggs, and then, you know, you work out, then you have a smoothie, and then it was two lunches.”

“Every lunch would be like a chicken breast, a whole potato and some broccoli, and I would eat two of those and then I remember there would be another snack after that. And I remember specifically for dinner, it was 20 ounces of a certain fish or steak. And then you are eating too much. That’s really what I didn’t enjoy.”

Cooper gained weight to star american sniper.

the hollywood star said, “It was a real shock to my body. If it’s pizza and cake, that’s one thing. Putting 6,000 calories a day into your body ages quickly.”

His diet for the role included five meals a day.

Efron was absolutely gutted by his role in Baywatch…but it seems that he never wants to do something like that again.

efron said, “Really, it was so difficult. You are working with almost no room for maneuver. You have things like water under your skin that worry you. Turning your six pack into a four pack. Shit like that. That’s not… it’s just stupid. It’s just not real.”

And I missed carbs in a major way. He said, “I went like years without eating carbohydrates. When I filmed Baywatch, I didn’t eat carbs for six months. I almost lost my mind. You need this. It’s so good”.

Swedish actor Skarsgård trained for eight months for his role in the legend of tarzan.

For three months he ate 7,000 calories a day, then switched to six small meals a day that he claims drove him insane with hunger.

Talk about commitment.

Bale is known as an intense actor and lost an incredible 63 pounds in four months to prepare for filming. The Machinist, which was released in 2004.

Every day he only ate an apple, a can of tuna and drank coffee.

In 2019, bale said“I’m older and I feel like if I keep doing what I’ve done in the past, I’m going to die.”

The rapper/actor quickly lost 50 pounds in two and a half months for his role as a cancer patient in the film. all things fall apart.

He ran for three hours on a treadmill every day and followed a liquid diet to lose weight.

He said he didn’t want to see a doctor during this training “because it had to match the look in my mind. He was so into what he was doing that he wasn’t really worried about it. I kept looking at myself in the mirror feeling like I had to be smaller. I had to match.”

Hemsworth survived on just 500 calories a day and lost 33 pounds in a month for his role in the film. In the heart of the sea.

Hemsworth said“At one point, a day’s rations were a boiled egg, a couple of crackers, and a stick of celery.”

I just tried a new diet/training program called “Lost At Sea”. I wouldn’t recommend it.. #In the heart of the sea pic.twitter.com/y89McNuiiV

—Chris Hemsworth (@chrishemsworth) November 22, 2015

Damon was not yet a big star when he appeared on courage under fire in 1996.

In fact, it only took two days to shoot his scenes in the movie, but Damon lost a whopping 50 pounds for his role as a junkie by consuming just 100 calories per day. He also ran 13 miles every day to lose weight.

But the training came at a price. damon finished damaging his adrenal gland and had to take medication for a year and a half to try to fix it.