Actors Who Went Through Extreme Transformations For Roles

Published on March 3, 2019 By James Spiro

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

For McConaughey, the 40-pound weight loss was worth the pain. The actor shed an impressive amount of weight to play real-life AIDS patient Ron Woodroof in the 2014 film. The performance ultimately won him an Oscar, and it didn’t put him through too much turmoil.

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He explains how we worked with a nutritionist to lose ‘3.5 pounds a week over four months’. Interestingly, he describes the ‘energy lost from the neck down was gained from the neck up.’