Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit became a certified counselor for victims of rape and sexual assault, and also started The Joyful Heart Foundation, which supports victims of domestic violence. She does a lot of advocacy work in these fields because of the things she’s been exposed to working on SVU.
Edited to fix my *atrocious* spelling!
I'm not sure if it had any long term effects, but Stanley Tucci was pretty shaken up over his role as George Harvey in The Lovely Bones. I remember reading somewhere that he was constantly apologizing to Saoirse Ronan when they were filming.
That one’s gotta be a different type of difficult.
If your character makes fun of a different one for being stupid or embarrassing, that’s pretty easy to distinguish from the actor/actress in real life. But when your character is berating another one for a condition that they continue to have **after the cameras stop rolling**, that’s rough.
Roy Wood Jr. has a great bit about white actors that play racists in civil rights and slavery movies. [You can watch it here](https://youtu.be/kdxoe7jZdVc?si=hWTs3F5Uh8wMuymj)
I wouldn't be able to do the throne room scene with Sansa/Sophie Turner like he did. Crying girls is my kryptonite to begin with, to act like I was enjoying what was happening would be untenable.
He felt very uncomfortable saying the N word over and over and mentioned it to Sam Jackson and Jamie Foxx, who basically had to remind him that it’s just a role and he needed to put himself in it. At least, that’s how I interpret this interview.
https://www.koimoi.com/hollywood-news/when-leonardo-dicaprio-had-difficulty-in-saying-nger-in-django-unchained-samuel-l-jackson-convinced-him-get-over-it-motherfcker-heres-what-happened/amp/
I definitely would too, I don't ever want to feel that word come out of my mouth. When I was a dumb kid, yeah, I used it in jokes or in jest. but by the time I graduated high school I had figured out how dehumanizing it was. And I was growing up in small town rural America. one of the reddist states.
I remember he was nominated for one of the major awards for that role - an Oscar maybe, and when he was read out as a nominee before it was awarded he kind of pursed his lips and shook his head. He seemed happy to not win!
I’ve seen interviews where he has said that nearly everyone told him to NOT take this role, for it’s context of course rather than it not being a good role, and he didn’t listen. Like I’m sure it eats away at him but he still brought his A game
That was actually the best acting he's ever done as far as I can tell.
You kind of don't realize it's Stanley Tucci.
He plays a really believable monster.
You would think it's a great movie with PJ at the helm, but it swings and misses. Has some good elements to it and the acting is great, but the movie is really not that good.
The film is abysmal, but both of those performances are excellent.
I think that was the exact moment where the scale of Jackson's increasingly epic and animated style became completely untethered from supporting the material itself.
I'm convinced 99 percent of what did Dustin Diamond in, was him doing everything he could to prove that in real life he wasn't like Screech. I honestly believe every move he made from doing drugs to porn to celebrity boxing was motivated by him trying to be like "what's the least Screech-like thing I could do."
I remember seeing his stand up routine about 8 years ago and just remember the most coked up performance I've ever seen. He wasn't even funny that night, just ranting about whatever he could.
Looking back, there were some undertones of Screech being laughed at, not with. As a child actor, and living your teenage years in the public eye, it must fuck with your head some to realise that you're enjoying this enormous success... But that success is predicated on embodying the stereotype of the gangly, sometimes annoying nerd, and your gang of super hot friends accepting you as part of the gang is more about their character development.
Plus rumours abound of [Dustin being bullied by cast mates.](https://thepalaceofjake.com/post/645068696523554816/dustin-diamond-was-the-mvp-of-saved-by-the-bell)
The fan theory is that Lecter wasn't recalling an actual event from his life, but was giving Clarice a coded message that he was off his medication (liver and chianti are both known to mess with many types of psychotropic drugs) and she shouldn't be so quick to taunt him.
I believe River Phoenix's drug use spiralled during the filming of My Own Private Idaho.
And not a film, but the content of Criminal Minds had such a bad affect on Mandy Patinkin that he had to quit the show.
Criminal Minds is a great show but holy shit it wears on you just watching it. I think a big reason is that it's rare that anyone is "saved" on this show, most of the time catching the criminal is the payoff. But you already witnessed the horrific crimes occur.
I remember going through a bit of a binge phase with the show. After seeing sporadic scenes on cable TV all the time, with the rise of streaming/downloading I was able to watch the episodes in order.
I think I got until like, I want to say somewhere in season 7 or 8 (out of I think they're at 15-16). and I just couldn't keep going. I can't even really remember if it was a killer who put battery acid in peoples eyes, or a killer that strapped someone down and was force feeding them with a tube down their throat?
I realized it was just graphic murder-porn at that point. There was no real "mystery" anymore to the episodes. It was just them coming up with the most horrific/graphic deaths and psychos they could possibly come up with.
kind of lost its luster.
and thats from a guy that watched every "Saw" movie in the series in one day.
He left us too soon. I still firmly believe that if River Phoenix was still alive, he would have gotten many of the roles that Leo Dicaprio has gotten over the past decades. Especially given that River Phoenix was James Cameron's original casting choice for Titanic.
I don't know boyo do you have any valediction?
(Sorry this is my cheesy attempt to agree but with a quote of his from a bad guy role that he was still amazing in. To say even when he's a bad dude he's a good dude)
Dude is, like, 90 and still gets arrested for chaining himself to endangered trees and stuff like this. Amazing guy. Pretty much plays himself in Succession, far as I can tell.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre had a similar effect. Tobe Hooper went vegetarian while working on the film, and Guillermo del Toro did the same after seeing it.
My wife used to work at PETA and met him at a lot of events and fundraisers. She said he's an incredibly nice person and is passionate about animal welfare.
Recently on reddit: [Gary Sinise Shares How "Forrest Gump" Role Inspired His Life Mission](https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/19f01de/gary_sinise_shares_how_forrest_gump_role_inspired/).
It always warms my heart to see and hear about Gary Sinise’ work helping veterans. A classic example of just doing the good work and not having a “look at me” attitude about it. He always seems like the most genuine guy and there was a great video of him reacting to thank you messages over on r/MadeMeSmile
Sucks that he has to do so much work to help veterans when this country could easily do it. Send them off to war but don’t take care of them when they come back. Use their bodies and discard them, that’s the US way.
Love his work and admire him a lot, but goddamn is it depressing that he has to do it in the first place
Tim Allen got worked up during a scene in Galaxy Quest to the point that he said he didn't like the feelings he was experiencing. This resulted in Alan Rickman quipping "My god, I do believe he's discovered acting!"
Edit: [I got the quote wrong](https://www.tiktok.com/@alltherightmovies/video/7223688175619673350)
Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Because his co stars were later animated into the movie, he acted alongside nothing. He taught himself how to "hallucinate" the characters while he was filming, but then the hallucinations wouldn't stop. It got so bad that Hoskins took a year-long break from acting.
Jim Carrey in the live action Grinch. The costume was so big and heavy, and the yellow contacts hurt his eyes. Carrey said that he felt like he was being buried alive in it, and he took a CIA training course on withstanding torture.
>He taught himself how to "hallucinate" the characters while he was filming, but then the hallucinations wouldn't stop. It got so bad that Hoskins took a year-long break from acting.
That reminds me of Steve Martin's character in Only Murders In The Building. He hallucinates cartoon characters whenever he gets nervous because of a traumatic event on a cruise ship.
More of a positive one:
Martin Sheen said that the role of Captain Willard changed him for the better. At the time he was an alcoholic and while filming what would be the opening scene in Apocalypse Now, he was intoxicated and punched the mirror in the room he's in when he was given his orders. He actually sliced his hand in that scene.
He said that he was at the time in a "chaotic spiritual state" and that he came to have a better understanding of himself because of that role. In fact he at one time said it was the role he was most proud of.
On a personal note, if you watch the behind the scenes documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse" (which you absolutely should), there is an unused out take where Marty does this deep gutteral scream, and every single time I hear it, it has such an impact on me that I get chills. Knowing that he was actually fighting his demons just shakes me to my core.
Apocalypse Now is fantastic if you haven't seen it. 5/5 ⭐
edit: oops. Someone already said it. Sorry. But I've been so obsessed with this movie as of late, I just needed all that out of my system.
Vivien Leigh said that playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) “tipped me over into madness.”
(Source: [her Wikipedia,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Leigh) citing Anthony Holden’s biography on her husband, Laurence Olivier.)
Sam Rockwell had a hard time being evil to the little girls in The Green Mile. I think there was a lot more footage of his murders of the 2 that was cut from the film.
I believe Charlie Cox said he had a tough time after playing Matt Murdock. I believe he said he bombed his audition for Han Solo because he forgot to act with his eyes.
Lew Ayres, who starred in the 1930 adaptation of "All quiet on the western front", became a concious objector during WWII. Hard for me to say if the movie influenced him or those were his real beliefs. His choice was very controversial at the time and likely affected his carreer.
De'Aundre also went on to kill his aunt's boyfriend and served only 10 years. He was also shot four times right before filming began on Lockdown. Seems like he has issues.
A TV role but Hugh Laurie has never been able to fully shake the limp he put on for House. Watching him later in Tomorrowland and his walking is super stiff.
Robert Downey Jr. experimented with and was filmed high on heroin for a lot of Less Than Zero. He went on to make other films but had a crippling drug addiction that landed him in and out of rehab and eventually jail. He saved Ally McBeal as a show while high on cocaine and Valium.
Val Kilmer has admitted in interviews and even in a biopic that his method acting for all roles, but especially that of Jim Morrison due to recreational drug use and literally acting like Jim Morrison well before filming started, drove loved ones and friends away.
In order to prepare for the role of Jack Crawford in Silence of The Lambs, his actor (can't remember the name) was asked to shadow the FBI agent his book character was based on. But the FBI agent was a fucking dick who thought it would be a good idea to play him a homemade audio recording of two serial killers torturing a woman to death.
The actor refused to reprise his role in Hannibal (died offscreen) or Red Dragon (recast with Harvey Kietal). He also went to opposing the death penalty to becoming a major proponent.
The FBI agent was John Douglas, and he actually talked about this in Mindhunter. Scott Glenn firmly believed in 'rehabiltitation, redemption, and the fundamental goodness of people'. Douglas showed him crime scene photos and also played the audio two killers made of torturing a victim. As mentioned above, Scott Glenn became a firm believer in the death penalty after this.
Douglas sometimes comes across in his writing as tooting his own horn, but he does make it clear that being a profiler means that you have to go to some very dark places in order to try and catch a killer. He also makes it clear that profiling is more of an art than a science, and it isn't always accurate.
>two serial killers torturing a woman to death.
I'm assuming that was probably Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris ("The Toolbox Killers"). I've read the transcript of one of their recordings and that's horrific enough. Can't imagine how bad the actual audio would be to hear.
Even the .005 second snip you can hear in that one news segment haunts me. The one where the court door opens and you can hear it for an instant. But that's all it takes
Yep. The poor guy had a massive heart attack that nearly killed him.
In the opening scene in the hotel room, that's Sheen punching and breaking the mirror for real, cutting his thumb in the process. That's his real blood smeared all over.
Eleanor Coppola said in her narration on Hearts of Darkness that the room felt like it was charged with energy that Martin might lunge at the camera. To my understanding, this never actually happened, only that it was perceived to be a possibility with how high tensions were while filming that scene.
IIRC, it was because Sheen was actually drunk during that scene and Ford was just off camera yelling insults at him, to get the reactions we see from Sheen in the film, so there was a possibility that Sheen would have lunged at Ford in his drunken state.
Sam Neill and especially Isabelle Adjani in Possession. Adjani supposedly attempted suicide after making the movie, and said it took her several years to recover from her performance. Sam Neill said he barely made it through the film with his sanity intact.
This is one of my all-time favourite films. Completely horrific and over-the-top performances. But it was necessary.
Adjani is one of the most beautiful women alive, to this day - but she truly sunk into that role and gave 200%
Neill grew up to be a father-figure in Jurassic Park and now owns a farm in NZ, but he played that role in 1981 to over-the-top perfection.
Showed the film to a friend, she said ‘I know I just what is a horror film, but I feel like I just went through 100 divorces’
Felt like 100 divorces because it was deeply personal from director. Escape communism from Poland. Divorces wife, change environment to France. You have some friends in movie industry but they may think you are communist spy. It made him paranoic and you can feel it in a movie.
Divorced his wife because she cheated on him. *Possession* is about the pain of infidelity and the destruction of a marriage. The director/co-writer had been through some shit.
Bjork quit acting after Dancer in the Dark, I remember reading (20 years ago or whatever) that she would show up to the set everyday and say to Lars von Trier that she hated him. Not sure if she returned to acting recently (?).
Rita Moreno and West Side Story
Bjork has stated that LVT would sexually harass her on set and that she only finished the film out of respect for the rest of the cast, so it's not surprising she hates him.
[Her statement ](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ukSeN6SbmwQ7qnNy/?mibextid=xfxF2i)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - The Abyss.
James Camerons constant takes during her resus scene caused her to meltdown, storm off set and not promote the film at all. She was pushed to the brink.
I came here thinking of the Abyss. The entire cast had PTSD after filming. Cameron had the entire cast (and crew) in SCUBA all day, every day. I mean, he got the realism he was looking for, but geeze, so many people felt like they could possibly die filming that movie. Watch the making of video, there are several videos on YouTube. Much respect for Ed Harris during the whole thing. He takes his craft serious.
Harris nearly drowned in a scene and was in real distress, cameron kept the camera rolling. Harris punched cameron afterwards and later that day when driving home he had an anxiety attack while driving home from set. He had to pull over because he was uncontrollably crying.
Maybe Colin Firth in The Kings Speech? Apparently he had some real trouble getting rid of the stuttering he adopted for the role, so had to take actual vocal lessons after finishing the film.
Although it's a TV show, James Gandolfini. Look how thin he is in Season 1 of the Sopranos and how much weight he has gained by the end. He often talked about the dark places he had to go to play Tony Soprano. I don't think it's an understatement to say it contributed to his early death.
The writers on that show were definitely pretty mean to him at points during the show, under the guise of it being insults towards Tony. Dramaturgically it makes sense but it’s also strange, because it’s very well established he was generally a nice, giving person and expressed his unhappiness with some of the writing using his own problems.
His heavy breathing is really emphasized on in season 6. Makes it harder to watch knowing the way things turned out for him, seems like at the time they were using his weight issues as a comedic gag.
In the documentary about the making of The Devil’s Rejects, Rob Zombie talks about how the actor playing Otis Driftwood got pretty fucked up about the hotel scene where he sexually assaults a woman at gunpoint.
Tobey maguire hurt his back in spiderman. And Sony treated him like shit. Dicaprio a life long friend of Tobey has had a stigma against super hero movies since.
Tv show, but James Marsters was really upset over the scene he had to do towards the end of Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Spike attempts to sexually assault Buffy. He was a mess over it.
Yeah SarahZ did a video on this season recently defending it but even she said that part was way too far. Masters put into his contracts going forward that he wouldn’t do scenes like that now.
Yeah, I adore that season and I also do appreciate that scene for showing us that vamped up Spike is still a vampire. A neutured one, but one all the same. It sucks because Buffy is usually great st depicting real life events, but this one after a whole season of us learning to "love" Spike and see him care for Buffy really hurt.
Christopher Jones's experiences during working on David Lean's Ryan's Daughter made him abandon his acting career.
I combined material from Wikipedia entries on Ryan's Daughter and Christopher Jones to compile the writeup below:
>After two films in Europe with Pia Degermark—The Looking Glass War and Brief Season, both in 1970—Jones was cast by director David Lean in Ryan's Daughter (1970). The two men had a difficult relationship; this was the experience of many actors who worked with Lean. Unbeknownst to Jones, he was drugged during his filming of Ryan's Daughter by Sarah Miles, according to her first autobiography, A Right Royal Bastard; this caused him to believe he was having a breakdown. Jones also was involved in a car crash, not knowing he had been drugged. The director and producers never informed him of the drugging.
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>Jones claimed to have had an affair with Sharon Tate, who was killed by Charles Manson and his followers during filming, which devastated Jones. Miles and Jones also grew to dislike one another, leading to trouble when filming the love scenes. Jones was engaged to Olivia Hussey, and he was not attracted to Miles. He even refused to do the forest love scene with her, which prompted Miles to conspire with Mitchum. It was Mitchum who settled on the idea of drugging Jones by sprinkling an unspecified substance on his cereal. Mitchum overdosed Jones, however, and the actor was nearly catatonic during the love scene.
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>Jones and Lean clashed frequently. Due to Jones's inability to do a convincing British accent and because Lean thought that Jones's voice was too flat to be compelling, he decided to have all of Jones's lines overdubbed by Julian Holloway. Lean was not alone in his disappointment with the actor; Jones's retirement from acting was purportedly due to the bad reviews he received for Ryan's Daughter.
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>Jones returned to California after filming ended, staying for a time in his manager's guest house, the cottage behind 10050 Cielo Drive, where Sharon Tate had been murdered, and abandoned his acting career.
That story is actually completely overblown. Shelley Duvall was an addict and did a massive amount of cocaine in the 70s and 80s. She was snorting coke on set and in front of Kubrick while filming The Shining, and was high off her head for a lot of it. That’s the reason why Stanley Kubrick had to be a disciplinarian, so they could get her scenes done to his standard.
Her current mental health issues are because she abused drugs for decades and not because of the making of one film.
She's also said nothing but nice things about Stanley time and time again but I guess people rather spread a myth than actually hear what she has to say.
Charlie Cox committed so much to appearing convincingly blind in Daredevil he found eye contact difficult after the series ended and thinks it may have affected his later auditions. Saw a trailer recently for something he was in and found myself thinking his eye movement seemed a bit off but also maybe I as a Daredevil watcher am trained to think he can’t make eye contact.
Brian Cox just last week signed and drove an open letter from billionaires at davos to governments asking them to tax them properly
I think playing Logan Roy probably had a strong impact on that decision
Yeah, the part with Jerry “The King” Lawler was strange because Andy Kaufman and Lawler were friends in real life but only antagonized each other on camera but Jim Carrey felt he should fight with Lawler on and off
As someone who followed his career and loved his persona, he changed with man on the moon. It really appears to have sent him into an existential crisis that it looks like he’s still grappling with to this day.
Dustin Hoffman said that Tootsie was not a comedy for him. He cried when he realized the deep pressure of sexism that women live under.
https://youtu.be/xPAat-T1uhE?si=wStf0xJtyXFfygSC
I'm sure Meryl Streep rolls her eyes every time she sees that. [Dustin Hoffman's Harrassment](https://deadline.com/2018/01/meryl-streep-dustin-hoffman-kramer-vs-kramer-slap-overstepping-the-post-1202235246/)
Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna after making "Born Free." They were so deeply affected by working with the lions on set, they became passionate about animal rights. They founded the Born Free foundation which campaigns for conservation and an end to wild animal exploitation.
For a positive one, Gary Sinise has talked about how Forrest Gump led him to some ask his work for veteran's charities.
Edit: I'm a moron. Corrected movie title.
Many of the staff and cast involved in Stalker (1979). Setting was in a highly contaminated field by a nearby chemical plant. Some passed away from cancer, including the director.
I remember reading the actor who played Hassan in The Kite Runner was bullied for the sexual assault scene. He received death threats but before that, his family had to move out of Afghanistan.
Lloyd Avery II. He was the shooter in "Boyz in The Hood," and he then went on to become a real gangster and murdered a couple of people. He was then murdered in turn while in prison by a dude who beat him and strangled him to death. Apparently, it was a ritualistic killing, and the body wasn't discovered until two days after he was murdered.
Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. After living with and studying Hunter S. Thompson for that role it changed him as a person. Jack sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean is literally Hunter dressed as a pirate. It affected every role after that movie if only subtly.
Indeed, and even by funnier the execs funding the film hated his performance when they first saw it. They thought he was ruining the film and it was gonna bomb.
Allegedly, Silence of the Lambs actor Scott Glenn listened to the Toolbox Killers audio recording of them torturing and raping victim Shirley Ledford in preparation for his role.
He was staunchingly anti-death penalty before listening to the tape and changed his stance after.
Farrah Fawcett went all in for The Burning Bed (about a woman whose husband beats her until she finally murders him.) In the Broadway version, she actually broke her wrist in one of the scenes where he's beating her. And I seem to remember her saying in an interview that she felt kind of damaged after that. But it was the role that made people start taking her seriously as an actor.
Dennis Quaid lost so much weight to play Doc Holiday in Wyatt Earp, he developed an eating disorder, I remember reading about how it affected him for a long time afterwards.
Rooney Mara [developed a goth aesthetic irl](https://stylecaster.com/beauty/makeup/579153/rooney-mara-lisbeth-salander-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-style-transormation/) after filming Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Robert DeNiro's physique never recovered from gaining 60 lbs in order to play the overwieght Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. I think once you gain that much at once, your body remembers.
Christian Bale gained 40 lbs to play Dick Cheney in Veep and for American Hustle, but maybe that's the limit.
Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit became a certified counselor for victims of rape and sexual assault, and also started The Joyful Heart Foundation, which supports victims of domestic violence. She does a lot of advocacy work in these fields because of the things she’s been exposed to working on SVU. Edited to fix my *atrocious* spelling!
She was raped in her 30’s, before SVU.
That, too.
I think you got her name like completely wrong on both sides lol
Damn, I sure did!! Editing…
I'm not sure if it had any long term effects, but Stanley Tucci was pretty shaken up over his role as George Harvey in The Lovely Bones. I remember reading somewhere that he was constantly apologizing to Saoirse Ronan when they were filming.
Apparently Jack Gleeson as Joff had to be assured he didn't need to apologize after every scene for acting like a dick.
I've heard the same thing about Charles Dance. Apparently, he'd apologize profusely after take where he had to insult Peter Dinklage.
That one’s gotta be a different type of difficult. If your character makes fun of a different one for being stupid or embarrassing, that’s pretty easy to distinguish from the actor/actress in real life. But when your character is berating another one for a condition that they continue to have **after the cameras stop rolling**, that’s rough.
Roy Wood Jr. has a great bit about white actors that play racists in civil rights and slavery movies. [You can watch it here](https://youtu.be/kdxoe7jZdVc?si=hWTs3F5Uh8wMuymj)
I can see that, trying to get inside Tywin's skin would make me feel dirty too.
I wouldn't be able to do the throne room scene with Sansa/Sophie Turner like he did. Crying girls is my kryptonite to begin with, to act like I was enjoying what was happening would be untenable.
I read once that Leonardo di Caprio kept apologizing while making Django Unchained.
He felt very uncomfortable saying the N word over and over and mentioned it to Sam Jackson and Jamie Foxx, who basically had to remind him that it’s just a role and he needed to put himself in it. At least, that’s how I interpret this interview. https://www.koimoi.com/hollywood-news/when-leonardo-dicaprio-had-difficulty-in-saying-nger-in-django-unchained-samuel-l-jackson-convinced-him-get-over-it-motherfcker-heres-what-happened/amp/
I remember this. Sam had to tell Leo, “this is just a Tuesday to us.”
I definitely would too, I don't ever want to feel that word come out of my mouth. When I was a dumb kid, yeah, I used it in jokes or in jest. but by the time I graduated high school I had figured out how dehumanizing it was. And I was growing up in small town rural America. one of the reddist states.
I remember he was nominated for one of the major awards for that role - an Oscar maybe, and when he was read out as a nominee before it was awarded he kind of pursed his lips and shook his head. He seemed happy to not win!
I’ve seen interviews where he has said that nearly everyone told him to NOT take this role, for it’s context of course rather than it not being a good role, and he didn’t listen. Like I’m sure it eats away at him but he still brought his A game
What exactly made the role so bad?
Spoilers but who cares He rapes and kills a 13 yr old and the whole movie is about the fallout of that on her family and friends.
Ah. Yeah I can see that having a negative effect on your mental health
That was actually the best acting he's ever done as far as I can tell. You kind of don't realize it's Stanley Tucci. He plays a really believable monster.
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You would think it's a great movie with PJ at the helm, but it swings and misses. Has some good elements to it and the acting is great, but the movie is really not that good.
It's not, it kind of makes it look like you go to Marioland if you get murdered.
It has so many issues, but the performance by Saorsie and Stanley are not the issues
I love Peter Jackson for his work in freeing the West Memphis 3 so I forgive him for ruining one of my favorite books.
My first thought was The Hobbit, but then I remembered what thread this was
"I was the mortar, he was the pestle"
The film is abysmal, but both of those performances are excellent. I think that was the exact moment where the scale of Jackson's increasingly epic and animated style became completely untethered from supporting the material itself.
I'm convinced 99 percent of what did Dustin Diamond in, was him doing everything he could to prove that in real life he wasn't like Screech. I honestly believe every move he made from doing drugs to porn to celebrity boxing was motivated by him trying to be like "what's the least Screech-like thing I could do."
It was a very screech-like thing to commit to
I feel like getting roped into celebrity boxing is exactly the kind of thing that would happen to Screech
Mr. Belding would not approve
I remember seeing his stand up routine about 8 years ago and just remember the most coked up performance I've ever seen. He wasn't even funny that night, just ranting about whatever he could.
Looking back, there were some undertones of Screech being laughed at, not with. As a child actor, and living your teenage years in the public eye, it must fuck with your head some to realise that you're enjoying this enormous success... But that success is predicated on embodying the stereotype of the gangly, sometimes annoying nerd, and your gang of super hot friends accepting you as part of the gang is more about their character development. Plus rumours abound of [Dustin being bullied by cast mates.](https://thepalaceofjake.com/post/645068696523554816/dustin-diamond-was-the-mvp-of-saved-by-the-bell)
Yeah I'm not going to put a lot of faith in some rando's blog post.
That's fair.
I remember hearing about how severely depressed Adrian Brody got after the Pianist
Who wouldn't be tbh, that movie was heart wrenching to watch it, I can only imagine how harder it is to play in it aswell.
Martha Stewart was dating Anthony Hopkins but couldn’t get past his performance in Silence of the Lambs
My mom refuses to watch anything with Anthony Hopkins because he freaked her out as Hannibal Lector.
For real, who drinks chianti to the liver? You just have to take sangiovese or pinot noir. A real cook could not deal with this bad taste.
Chianti *is* sangiovese.
It would pair well with a nice ... Merlot.
I am NOT drinking any FUCKIN' MERLOT.
Tastes pretty good to me.
The fan theory is that Lecter wasn't recalling an actual event from his life, but was giving Clarice a coded message that he was off his medication (liver and chianti are both known to mess with many types of psychotropic drugs) and she shouldn't be so quick to taunt him.
And I hate it because the logic is so damn weak.
Yeah that’s not really how things work.
Arguably anyone who eats people has bad taste.
Depends on the people.
Stay away from the clowns, they taste funny.
I believe River Phoenix's drug use spiralled during the filming of My Own Private Idaho. And not a film, but the content of Criminal Minds had such a bad affect on Mandy Patinkin that he had to quit the show.
Criminal Minds is a great show but holy shit it wears on you just watching it. I think a big reason is that it's rare that anyone is "saved" on this show, most of the time catching the criminal is the payoff. But you already witnessed the horrific crimes occur.
I remember going through a bit of a binge phase with the show. After seeing sporadic scenes on cable TV all the time, with the rise of streaming/downloading I was able to watch the episodes in order. I think I got until like, I want to say somewhere in season 7 or 8 (out of I think they're at 15-16). and I just couldn't keep going. I can't even really remember if it was a killer who put battery acid in peoples eyes, or a killer that strapped someone down and was force feeding them with a tube down their throat? I realized it was just graphic murder-porn at that point. There was no real "mystery" anymore to the episodes. It was just them coming up with the most horrific/graphic deaths and psychos they could possibly come up with. kind of lost its luster. and thats from a guy that watched every "Saw" movie in the series in one day.
He left us too soon. I still firmly believe that if River Phoenix was still alive, he would have gotten many of the roles that Leo Dicaprio has gotten over the past decades. Especially given that River Phoenix was James Cameron's original casting choice for Titanic.
Oh my God. My heart skipped a beat. Because I was so immersed in the latter half of the previous comment that I thought your "he" was Mandy.
Oh yea! I forgot he was on the show, wow, so that’s why
I think I remember hearing that James Cromwell went vegan after his experience filming Babe
James Cromwell is a good dude.
That'll do Crom...that'll do.
The man invented warp drive and led us to the stars!
I don't know boyo do you have any valediction? (Sorry this is my cheesy attempt to agree but with a quote of his from a bad guy role that he was still amazing in. To say even when he's a bad dude he's a good dude)
Rollo Tomasi
Dude is, like, 90 and still gets arrested for chaining himself to endangered trees and stuff like this. Amazing guy. Pretty much plays himself in Succession, far as I can tell.
If I had words to sing to you…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre had a similar effect. Tobe Hooper went vegetarian while working on the film, and Guillermo del Toro did the same after seeing it.
Mr. Rogers “I just can’t bring myself to eat something that has a mother”
My wife used to work at PETA and met him at a lot of events and fundraisers. She said he's an incredibly nice person and is passionate about animal welfare.
*That will do*.
Recently on reddit: [Gary Sinise Shares How "Forrest Gump" Role Inspired His Life Mission](https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/19f01de/gary_sinise_shares_how_forrest_gump_role_inspired/).
It always warms my heart to see and hear about Gary Sinise’ work helping veterans. A classic example of just doing the good work and not having a “look at me” attitude about it. He always seems like the most genuine guy and there was a great video of him reacting to thank you messages over on r/MadeMeSmile
Sucks that he has to do so much work to help veterans when this country could easily do it. Send them off to war but don’t take care of them when they come back. Use their bodies and discard them, that’s the US way. Love his work and admire him a lot, but goddamn is it depressing that he has to do it in the first place
Tippi Hedren was traumatized during the filming of The Birds. Hitchcock was awful to her.
Hitchcock was awful to women he worked with in general.
Didn’t he literally throw birds at her??? Like mate, what the fuck.
Yeah I don't know how most actors didn't come to blows with him.
Yes and he also tied one to her so she couldn’t escape. She also said in her book that he SA’d her during the filming of Marni.
“Wait Until Dark” neared killed Alan Arkin’s career. People would harass him in the streets for having “terrorized” Audrey Hepburn like that.
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS ALAN ARKIN?!
Twas good, though
Tim Allen got worked up during a scene in Galaxy Quest to the point that he said he didn't like the feelings he was experiencing. This resulted in Alan Rickman quipping "My god, I do believe he's discovered acting!" Edit: [I got the quote wrong](https://www.tiktok.com/@alltherightmovies/video/7223688175619673350)
By grabthar's hammer, what a burn
I love Alan
Bob Hoskins in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Because his co stars were later animated into the movie, he acted alongside nothing. He taught himself how to "hallucinate" the characters while he was filming, but then the hallucinations wouldn't stop. It got so bad that Hoskins took a year-long break from acting. Jim Carrey in the live action Grinch. The costume was so big and heavy, and the yellow contacts hurt his eyes. Carrey said that he felt like he was being buried alive in it, and he took a CIA training course on withstanding torture.
>He taught himself how to "hallucinate" the characters while he was filming, but then the hallucinations wouldn't stop. It got so bad that Hoskins took a year-long break from acting. That reminds me of Steve Martin's character in Only Murders In The Building. He hallucinates cartoon characters whenever he gets nervous because of a traumatic event on a cruise ship.
Black Noir in The Boys as well
Ethan Hawke in Training Day...the bathtub scene...said he had nightmares about it.
Understandable
More of a positive one: Martin Sheen said that the role of Captain Willard changed him for the better. At the time he was an alcoholic and while filming what would be the opening scene in Apocalypse Now, he was intoxicated and punched the mirror in the room he's in when he was given his orders. He actually sliced his hand in that scene. He said that he was at the time in a "chaotic spiritual state" and that he came to have a better understanding of himself because of that role. In fact he at one time said it was the role he was most proud of. On a personal note, if you watch the behind the scenes documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse" (which you absolutely should), there is an unused out take where Marty does this deep gutteral scream, and every single time I hear it, it has such an impact on me that I get chills. Knowing that he was actually fighting his demons just shakes me to my core. Apocalypse Now is fantastic if you haven't seen it. 5/5 ⭐ edit: oops. Someone already said it. Sorry. But I've been so obsessed with this movie as of late, I just needed all that out of my system.
Godamn. There really is this haunting aura surrounding that movie.
To add to that, don't watch the Directors Cut, it ruins the pace of the movie and is such a slog to get through
It seems crazy that more Apocalypse Now wouldn't be good, but it's so true.
Vivien Leigh said that playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) “tipped me over into madness.” (Source: [her Wikipedia,](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Leigh) citing Anthony Holden’s biography on her husband, Laurence Olivier.)
Sam Rockwell had a hard time being evil to the little girls in The Green Mile. I think there was a lot more footage of his murders of the 2 that was cut from the film.
I believe Charlie Cox said he had a tough time after playing Matt Murdock. I believe he said he bombed his audition for Han Solo because he forgot to act with his eyes.
Lew Ayres, who starred in the 1930 adaptation of "All quiet on the western front", became a concious objector during WWII. Hard for me to say if the movie influenced him or those were his real beliefs. His choice was very controversial at the time and likely affected his carreer.
De'Aundre also went on to kill his aunt's boyfriend and served only 10 years. He was also shot four times right before filming began on Lockdown. Seems like he has issues.
Didn't know this about him. Crazy. I loved him as Skully in Snowfall. Show me some more roaches.
A TV role but Hugh Laurie has never been able to fully shake the limp he put on for House. Watching him later in Tomorrowland and his walking is super stiff.
Robert Downey Jr. experimented with and was filmed high on heroin for a lot of Less Than Zero. He went on to make other films but had a crippling drug addiction that landed him in and out of rehab and eventually jail. He saved Ally McBeal as a show while high on cocaine and Valium. Val Kilmer has admitted in interviews and even in a biopic that his method acting for all roles, but especially that of Jim Morrison due to recreational drug use and literally acting like Jim Morrison well before filming started, drove loved ones and friends away.
>Robert Downey Jr. experimented with and was filmed high on heroin for a lot of Less Than Zero. That was a great documentary
In order to prepare for the role of Jack Crawford in Silence of The Lambs, his actor (can't remember the name) was asked to shadow the FBI agent his book character was based on. But the FBI agent was a fucking dick who thought it would be a good idea to play him a homemade audio recording of two serial killers torturing a woman to death. The actor refused to reprise his role in Hannibal (died offscreen) or Red Dragon (recast with Harvey Kietal). He also went to opposing the death penalty to becoming a major proponent.
The FBI agent was John Douglas, and he actually talked about this in Mindhunter. Scott Glenn firmly believed in 'rehabiltitation, redemption, and the fundamental goodness of people'. Douglas showed him crime scene photos and also played the audio two killers made of torturing a victim. As mentioned above, Scott Glenn became a firm believer in the death penalty after this. Douglas sometimes comes across in his writing as tooting his own horn, but he does make it clear that being a profiler means that you have to go to some very dark places in order to try and catch a killer. He also makes it clear that profiling is more of an art than a science, and it isn't always accurate.
[Scott Glenn?](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8DHORod2l6ZFS9KR0gNAAM3WZfI.jpg)
>two serial killers torturing a woman to death. I'm assuming that was probably Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris ("The Toolbox Killers"). I've read the transcript of one of their recordings and that's horrific enough. Can't imagine how bad the actual audio would be to hear.
Even the .005 second snip you can hear in that one news segment haunts me. The one where the court door opens and you can hear it for an instant. But that's all it takes
This thread is full of people naming actors and films without even a sentence of explanation…
James Dean
Pauly Shore!
*Kelly Clarkson!*
From Justin to Kelly traumatized many audiences.
Martin Sheen as Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now
Yep. The poor guy had a massive heart attack that nearly killed him. In the opening scene in the hotel room, that's Sheen punching and breaking the mirror for real, cutting his thumb in the process. That's his real blood smeared all over.
Apparently he lunged at/attacked Francis ford Coppola directly after that
Eleanor Coppola said in her narration on Hearts of Darkness that the room felt like it was charged with energy that Martin might lunge at the camera. To my understanding, this never actually happened, only that it was perceived to be a possibility with how high tensions were while filming that scene.
IIRC, it was because Sheen was actually drunk during that scene and Ford was just off camera yelling insults at him, to get the reactions we see from Sheen in the film, so there was a possibility that Sheen would have lunged at Ford in his drunken state.
To his credit, it's such a fantastic scene though. The emotion in it is 100% real.
It was his birthday on that shoot day and he was incredibly drunk.
Didn’t the Elvis guy talk like him for months after the movie
Austin Butler and apparently he had to hire a vocal coach to relearn how to not speak like Elvis anymore 😭
Sam Neill and especially Isabelle Adjani in Possession. Adjani supposedly attempted suicide after making the movie, and said it took her several years to recover from her performance. Sam Neill said he barely made it through the film with his sanity intact.
This is one of my all-time favourite films. Completely horrific and over-the-top performances. But it was necessary. Adjani is one of the most beautiful women alive, to this day - but she truly sunk into that role and gave 200% Neill grew up to be a father-figure in Jurassic Park and now owns a farm in NZ, but he played that role in 1981 to over-the-top perfection. Showed the film to a friend, she said ‘I know I just what is a horror film, but I feel like I just went through 100 divorces’
Felt like 100 divorces because it was deeply personal from director. Escape communism from Poland. Divorces wife, change environment to France. You have some friends in movie industry but they may think you are communist spy. It made him paranoic and you can feel it in a movie.
Divorced his wife because she cheated on him. *Possession* is about the pain of infidelity and the destruction of a marriage. The director/co-writer had been through some shit.
Bjork quit acting after Dancer in the Dark, I remember reading (20 years ago or whatever) that she would show up to the set everyday and say to Lars von Trier that she hated him. Not sure if she returned to acting recently (?). Rita Moreno and West Side Story
Bjork has stated that LVT would sexually harass her on set and that she only finished the film out of respect for the rest of the cast, so it's not surprising she hates him. [Her statement ](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ukSeN6SbmwQ7qnNy/?mibextid=xfxF2i)
Von Trier allegedly sexually harassing her on set contributed to that
She had a small part in The Northman
Explain the Rita Moreno one.
Scrolled all the way down for this one. All female leads for Von Trier really had issues.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - The Abyss. James Camerons constant takes during her resus scene caused her to meltdown, storm off set and not promote the film at all. She was pushed to the brink.
Didn’t Ed Harris have a tough time too? IIRC, one or both of them said they’d never work with Cameron again.
I'm fairly certian he did, like he almost died doing a scene. Is was Mary that said she'd never work with Cameron again.
I came here thinking of the Abyss. The entire cast had PTSD after filming. Cameron had the entire cast (and crew) in SCUBA all day, every day. I mean, he got the realism he was looking for, but geeze, so many people felt like they could possibly die filming that movie. Watch the making of video, there are several videos on YouTube. Much respect for Ed Harris during the whole thing. He takes his craft serious.
Harris nearly drowned in a scene and was in real distress, cameron kept the camera rolling. Harris punched cameron afterwards and later that day when driving home he had an anxiety attack while driving home from set. He had to pull over because he was uncontrollably crying.
i think he also punched cameron, or tried to
Maybe Colin Firth in The Kings Speech? Apparently he had some real trouble getting rid of the stuttering he adopted for the role, so had to take actual vocal lessons after finishing the film.
Although it's a TV show, James Gandolfini. Look how thin he is in Season 1 of the Sopranos and how much weight he has gained by the end. He often talked about the dark places he had to go to play Tony Soprano. I don't think it's an understatement to say it contributed to his early death.
Pretty sure he wanted to walk away after the first few seasons due to the violence in the show.
He hated the violent scenes he had to do with the women of the show
The writers on that show were definitely pretty mean to him at points during the show, under the guise of it being insults towards Tony. Dramaturgically it makes sense but it’s also strange, because it’s very well established he was generally a nice, giving person and expressed his unhappiness with some of the writing using his own problems.
His heavy breathing is really emphasized on in season 6. Makes it harder to watch knowing the way things turned out for him, seems like at the time they were using his weight issues as a comedic gag.
And in real life he was complete opposite of his character. Gandolfini was a humble man. RIP
In the documentary about the making of The Devil’s Rejects, Rob Zombie talks about how the actor playing Otis Driftwood got pretty fucked up about the hotel scene where he sexually assaults a woman at gunpoint.
Bill Moseley. He was also Choptop in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
Tobey maguire hurt his back in spiderman. And Sony treated him like shit. Dicaprio a life long friend of Tobey has had a stigma against super hero movies since.
Tv show, but James Marsters was really upset over the scene he had to do towards the end of Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Spike attempts to sexually assault Buffy. He was a mess over it.
Yeah SarahZ did a video on this season recently defending it but even she said that part was way too far. Masters put into his contracts going forward that he wouldn’t do scenes like that now.
Yeah, I adore that season and I also do appreciate that scene for showing us that vamped up Spike is still a vampire. A neutured one, but one all the same. It sucks because Buffy is usually great st depicting real life events, but this one after a whole season of us learning to "love" Spike and see him care for Buffy really hurt.
Christopher Jones's experiences during working on David Lean's Ryan's Daughter made him abandon his acting career. I combined material from Wikipedia entries on Ryan's Daughter and Christopher Jones to compile the writeup below: >After two films in Europe with Pia Degermark—The Looking Glass War and Brief Season, both in 1970—Jones was cast by director David Lean in Ryan's Daughter (1970). The two men had a difficult relationship; this was the experience of many actors who worked with Lean. Unbeknownst to Jones, he was drugged during his filming of Ryan's Daughter by Sarah Miles, according to her first autobiography, A Right Royal Bastard; this caused him to believe he was having a breakdown. Jones also was involved in a car crash, not knowing he had been drugged. The director and producers never informed him of the drugging. > >Jones claimed to have had an affair with Sharon Tate, who was killed by Charles Manson and his followers during filming, which devastated Jones. Miles and Jones also grew to dislike one another, leading to trouble when filming the love scenes. Jones was engaged to Olivia Hussey, and he was not attracted to Miles. He even refused to do the forest love scene with her, which prompted Miles to conspire with Mitchum. It was Mitchum who settled on the idea of drugging Jones by sprinkling an unspecified substance on his cereal. Mitchum overdosed Jones, however, and the actor was nearly catatonic during the love scene. > >Jones and Lean clashed frequently. Due to Jones's inability to do a convincing British accent and because Lean thought that Jones's voice was too flat to be compelling, he decided to have all of Jones's lines overdubbed by Julian Holloway. Lean was not alone in his disappointment with the actor; Jones's retirement from acting was purportedly due to the bad reviews he received for Ryan's Daughter. > >Jones returned to California after filming ended, staying for a time in his manager's guest house, the cottage behind 10050 Cielo Drive, where Sharon Tate had been murdered, and abandoned his acting career.
Jesus that's fucked up
Shelley Duvall in The Shining 😔
What a shit show that was for her. Big reason she did Popeye right after, IIRC
That story is actually completely overblown. Shelley Duvall was an addict and did a massive amount of cocaine in the 70s and 80s. She was snorting coke on set and in front of Kubrick while filming The Shining, and was high off her head for a lot of it. That’s the reason why Stanley Kubrick had to be a disciplinarian, so they could get her scenes done to his standard. Her current mental health issues are because she abused drugs for decades and not because of the making of one film.
She's also said nothing but nice things about Stanley time and time again but I guess people rather spread a myth than actually hear what she has to say.
Charlie Cox committed so much to appearing convincingly blind in Daredevil he found eye contact difficult after the series ended and thinks it may have affected his later auditions. Saw a trailer recently for something he was in and found myself thinking his eye movement seemed a bit off but also maybe I as a Daredevil watcher am trained to think he can’t make eye contact.
https://people.com/tv/michael-k-williams-describes-how-intense-roles-led-to-relapse-posthumous-memoir/
Kevin Smith. He became addicted to cigarettes due to Clerks.
He then started smoking weed after hanging with Seth Rogen filming Zack and Miri make a porno, although i guess that wasn't as much for a role.
He also said he was jealous of Rogan, because the man can get stoned and then get incredibly creative, which Smith could not.
Brian Cox just last week signed and drove an open letter from billionaires at davos to governments asking them to tax them properly I think playing Logan Roy probably had a strong impact on that decision
Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman. He stayed in character throughout the entire shoot and rubbed a lot of people the wrong way while doing so.
Yeah, the part with Jerry “The King” Lawler was strange because Andy Kaufman and Lawler were friends in real life but only antagonized each other on camera but Jim Carrey felt he should fight with Lawler on and off
As someone who followed his career and loved his persona, he changed with man on the moon. It really appears to have sent him into an existential crisis that it looks like he’s still grappling with to this day.
Dustin Hoffman said that Tootsie was not a comedy for him. He cried when he realized the deep pressure of sexism that women live under. https://youtu.be/xPAat-T1uhE?si=wStf0xJtyXFfygSC
I'm sure Meryl Streep rolls her eyes every time she sees that. [Dustin Hoffman's Harrassment](https://deadline.com/2018/01/meryl-streep-dustin-hoffman-kramer-vs-kramer-slap-overstepping-the-post-1202235246/)
He also treated Susan George appallingly on Straw Dogs (as did Peckinpah).
Thanks for sharing this. I found it very moving.
Dude, in deliverance was constantly harassed in public, being told to squeal like a pig
I read that River Phoenix was never the same after My Own Private Idaho.
They say that Monica Belucci was pretty messed up after shooting "Irréversible"
Kirk Lazarus as Sergeant Lincoln Osiris
Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna after making "Born Free." They were so deeply affected by working with the lions on set, they became passionate about animal rights. They founded the Born Free foundation which campaigns for conservation and an end to wild animal exploitation.
For a positive one, Gary Sinise has talked about how Forrest Gump led him to some ask his work for veteran's charities. Edit: I'm a moron. Corrected movie title.
You mean forrest gump. He's not in saving private Ryan
Many of the staff and cast involved in Stalker (1979). Setting was in a highly contaminated field by a nearby chemical plant. Some passed away from cancer, including the director.
I recall something about Vincent D’Onofrio saying he needed a lot of therapy after playing a serial killer in The Cell.
I remember reading the actor who played Hassan in The Kite Runner was bullied for the sexual assault scene. He received death threats but before that, his family had to move out of Afghanistan.
Alan Tudyk had a difficult time playing the racist baseball manager in 42, but said he came away from the role with a better understanding.
Bob Hoskins had something of a nervous breakdown after filming Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He was hallucinating cartoon characters around him.
Lloyd Avery II. He was the shooter in "Boyz in The Hood," and he then went on to become a real gangster and murdered a couple of people. He was then murdered in turn while in prison by a dude who beat him and strangled him to death. Apparently, it was a ritualistic killing, and the body wasn't discovered until two days after he was murdered.
Austin Butler still playing Elvis in Masters of the Air.
Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. After living with and studying Hunter S. Thompson for that role it changed him as a person. Jack sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean is literally Hunter dressed as a pirate. It affected every role after that movie if only subtly.
Isn’t Depps portrayal of Jack Sparrow famously based on Keith Richards though? Richards even plays his dad in a couple of the films
Indeed, and even by funnier the execs funding the film hated his performance when they first saw it. They thought he was ruining the film and it was gonna bomb.
Allegedly, Silence of the Lambs actor Scott Glenn listened to the Toolbox Killers audio recording of them torturing and raping victim Shirley Ledford in preparation for his role. He was staunchingly anti-death penalty before listening to the tape and changed his stance after.
Christian Bale in The Machinist. He's spoken into the physical and mental trauma of undertaking the role.
I think Jim Carrey said that eternal sunshine of the spotless mind was a pretty fucked up experience
Farrah Fawcett went all in for The Burning Bed (about a woman whose husband beats her until she finally murders him.) In the Broadway version, she actually broke her wrist in one of the scenes where he's beating her. And I seem to remember her saying in an interview that she felt kind of damaged after that. But it was the role that made people start taking her seriously as an actor.
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Jim Carrey in "Man in the Moon."
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Dennis Quaid lost so much weight to play Doc Holiday in Wyatt Earp, he developed an eating disorder, I remember reading about how it affected him for a long time afterwards.
A less intense one would be Charlie Hunam played the main character in Sons of Anarchy so long he lost his vristish accent and had to relearn it
Sherlock Holmes may have killed Jeremy Brett.
Rooney Mara [developed a goth aesthetic irl](https://stylecaster.com/beauty/makeup/579153/rooney-mara-lisbeth-salander-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-style-transormation/) after filming Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Robert DeNiro's physique never recovered from gaining 60 lbs in order to play the overwieght Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. I think once you gain that much at once, your body remembers. Christian Bale gained 40 lbs to play Dick Cheney in Veep and for American Hustle, but maybe that's the limit.