Hollywood loves thin actors, models, and talent. Actors gain more attention, awards, and popularity when they lose weight.
Jared Leto gained nearly 70 pounds for 2007’s movie “Chapter 27.” To gain weight Leto microwaved pints of ice cream mixed with soy sauce and olive oil every night. But, despite gaining 70 pounds his work was not received well by critics.
Fast forward nearly a decade, Jared Leto revealed to The Wrap that he lost 30 to 40 pounds for his role as a transsexual living with HIV in the 1980s. To get down to 114 pounds, “I stopped eating,” Leto said, adding that such a drastic physical change had an impact beyond the scale.”It changes the way you walk, the way you sit, the way you think,” the 41-year-old actor said. He would later win an Academy Award.
McConaughey lost 38 pounds to play the thin Woodroof, who went against the medical system and set off across international borders to round up HIV treatments. Using his hustler’s spirit, he then sells the treatments to those in need through his “Dallas Buyers Club.” In an interview with CNN he commented on how he lost the weight and what the experience was like,
“I wouldn’t be looking forward to harming myself, and I didn’t harm myself with losing all that weight. I did it under doctor supervision, I understood the nutrition, I listened to my body all the way.
“And it actually turned out to be a wonderful personal adventure for me, which happened to be the reason I did it, ’cause it’s what the character needed. And if I wouldn’t have gotten down to that weight, to play that character as truthfully as I could, I would have been embarrassed, for myself. ‘Cause my job is to go emulate the life of someone else, and that’s what I was doing.”
Matthew McConaughey would later win an Academy Award.
So, Sarah Jessica Parker’s recent statements should not be a surprise.
In a recent interview, Sarah Jessica Parker revealed that she was given a treadmill by a producer who was “very concerned” about her weight.
“I was about to doHoneymoon In Vegas and before that I was off to do another movie in Iowa and the producer…was very concerned about me being fit for Honeymoon In Vegas so they sent a treadmill to Iowa,” Parker said in an interview with SiriusXM radio.
But things get worse, Parker admitted to running on that treadmill over and over to one single song: C+C Music Factory’s Everybody Dance Now. “I would very diligently go out every single day and run like a lunatic to [Everybody Dance Now] and then when I went to Iowa, on the treadmill, I would continue to run like a lunatic to the song.” Sounds like hell.
[Source: NYDN]
