Celebrities
who gave up their beauty for a role in a movie .. Anne Hathaway shaved her hair
and lost weight
Really talented
actresses can perform very different roles, including roles where they have to
transform into unattractive women, and in order to make the transformation look
real, they have to do completely different things, like lose or gain a lot of
weight in a very short time, or Wearing shapeless clothes, or spending a lot of
time in makeup that covers their beauty.
All this effort is
appreciated by viewers and film critics alike, in the following report, the
"Bright Side" website monitored the most prominent actresses who
abandoned their beauty in order to perform their roles:
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet has portrayed quite a few beautiful women, but it is the role of an illiterate German woman convicted of killing hundreds of people in The reader brought the actress an Academy Award, and thanks to the amazing work of makeup artists, Kate's character looked much older and really ugly.
Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman is known as a very diverse actress, and for her
role inv for vandetta, Portman was brave enough to shave her head off and in
Goya's Ghosts (Image at left), where she played a woman who was a victim of the
Spanish Inquisition.
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz is the typical blonde Hollywood woman with a
charming smile that is difficult to portray as an unattractive woman, however,
in the 1999 filmBeing John Malkovich, Cameron played an unattractive girl,
whose absence of make-up and a pile of dark curls on her head made her look
fitting for the role which is why she was nominated for such prestigious awards
as the BAFTA and Golden Globe.
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman won an Academy Award in 2003 for her role as
Virginia Woolf in the movieThe Hours, thanks to the makeup, and the list of
films in which the actress plays a beautiful woman is really long, such as
Moulin Rouge, Cold Mountain, Australia, Grace of Monaco, and many more.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron has appeared in fatal beauty roles several
times, but the real recognition and true love of film critics came with her
role in the movie The Beast. Disgusting thanks to the work of some talented
makeup artists, and for her role inMonster, Theron has received a Golden Globe,
an Oscar, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer, turned into a scary old witch in the
movieMatthew Vaughn's Stardust, and when she was young in the movie, we were
totally amazed at how pretty she was and she was about 50 years old when she
acted on this movie.
Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway playedFantine in the musical Les Misérables, based on Victor Hugo's novel, Anne's character needed to feed herself and her daughter, so she had to sell her hair and teeth and become a prostitute.
In order to play this role, in a very short period of time, she
had to lose over 22 pounds and cut her long hair on camera, and this scene was
actually done, and for her role in the movieLes Misérables, Anne has received a
Golden Globe, an Oscar, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
