Actors Who Were Never The Same After A Role

We've all had tough days at the office. But some

actors

, dedicated to giving it their all, took their work too far. While it is a pleasure to watch these critically acclaimed and often award-winning performances, the experience of preparing for and recovering from these

role

s had an impact on the

actors

involved and left a lasting impression, not always a positive one. Here are several actors who went the extra mile for their craft. Isabelle Adjani - Possession Any horror fan knows that the subway scene in Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981) is one of the most gruesome and shocking moments of body horror ever to grace the big screen.

And if you haven't seen the movie, buckle up, you're in for a treat. Isabelle Adjani won a César Award for her performance, but the intense physical and emotional demands of her

role

made her recovery extremely difficult. Adjani later told a French magazine that it took her "years of therapy" to get Anna out of her system and that she would

never

try another role like that again. Adrien Brody - The Pianist Although Brody's physical transformation in 2002's The Pianist is obvious, the actor has also spoken of the enormous mental and emotional strain of playing a Holocaust survivor, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003. "You know, "My experiences making this film made me very aware of the sadness and dehumanization of people in times of war." To prepare for the role, Brody abandoned his apartment, sold his car, He disconnected his phones and moved to Europe.

But it was the emotional effect of intense hunger during his extreme diet that he found the most surprising and difficult challenge to deal with. Brody told the BBC: "I have experienced loss, I have experienced sadness in myself. "There were times when he wasn't sure he would come out of the experience with his sanity intact, and he said it took him a year and a half, quote, "to readjust." Colin Firth - The King's Speech Colin Firth plays the future King of England, George VI, in the Oscar-winning film The King's Speech, and has to give several speeches in addition to other royal duties.

The film has a villain of sorts in the form of an almost debilitating stutter that ruins almost every speech George gives until he hires a vocal coach. "Prince Albert... Frederick... Arthur... George." Firth himself also worked closely with a voice coach and watched recordings of George speaking to better emulate both his vocal defects and his physical mannerisms and nervous tics while stuttering. Firth immersed himself so deeply in the role that he admitted in an interview that he still occasionally stuttered when he spoke casually, even stuttering briefly during the interview itself. It's worth noting that this happened in May 2011, a full eight months after the film's release in September of the previous year.

Judging by how perfectly he pronounced every syllable in Kingsman: The Secret Service while he was defeating thugs with an umbrella in 2014, it seems Firth has overcome his stutter. Hugh Laurie - House During the casting process for House, the producers explained that they wanted an "essentially American actor" to play Dr. House, shortly before hiring British actor Hugh Laurie. Laurie apparently got the role because his American accent on the audition tape was so convincing that no one realized he was British; the pilot's director even pointed to the tape and said, "Look, this is what I want: an American guy." "I was expecting you in my office 20 minutes ago." "Really?

That's weird, because I had no intention of being in your office 20 minutes ago." Laurie also tried really hard when it came to walking with a limp to play House who uses a cane. So much so that the actor was still walking with a limp in 2015 after eight consecutive years of pretending to have a limp on set. Laurie also reportedly tried to ease the load on his leg by occasionally changing his limping leg, something he says no one noticed or called him on during filming or in the years since the show ended. Apparently, Laurie's performance is so good that it can make people overlook both his Britishness and the fact that he didn't always limp on the

same

leg, even though that is a defining aspect of the character.

Bob Hoskins - Who Framed Roger Rabbit One of the late British actor Bob Hoskins' most famous roles was that of the alcoholic Los Angeles detective Eddie Valiant in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Hoskins had to spend several hours a day for eight months talking to and acting alongside cartoon characters who weren't actually there. "Scotch on ice. And I mean ice!" Hoskins would later note that he "learned to hallucinate" that Roger and the other characters were actually there to cope with the dissonance of constantly hearing his voices but

never

seeing them during filming. When filming finally wrapped, Hoskins found himself constantly talking to himself and even hallucinating that Roger was sitting in the

same

room for months, prompting his doctor to advise him to take a much-needed break from acting.

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight Ledger's performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight was so chilling that it earned him an Oscar for best supporting actor; Tragically, it was a posthumous award, as Ledger had died of an accidental drug overdose in January 2008. "Does it depress you, Commissioner, to know how alone you really are?" In the years following his untimely death, rumors circulated that preparation for the dark role had contributed to Ledger's demise. Before filming began, Ledger strictly isolated himself and kept a diary of disturbing images to enter "the realm of a psychopath." He sometimes only slept "two hours a night" while filming, according to a November 2007 interview with The New York Times.

It was a mixture of "painkillers, anti-anxiety medications and sleeping pills" that ultimately caused Ledger's death just two months later. Charlie Hunnam - American TV and Movies Charlie Hunnam has played everything from a football hooligan to a giant robot pilot, and is known for his extraordinarily convincing American accent, making him one of the few chameleonic British actors capable of impersonate Americans convincingly. in his various roles. "You rescued her. You raised her. You're not protecting her now. You're holding her back." However, years of living in America took a toll on Hunnam's actual accent, and when he appeared on television in 2013 to promote a film about Conan, he spoke with a strange amalgamation of various American dialects that caused confusion and ridicule, especially in the United Kingdom.

Hunnam's native Kingdom. "I walked out just as he was coming around the side of the house, and he stopped, and I looked at him and said, 'So we got business, motherfucker?'" Hunnam spoke about this in 2017 when he admitted that his accent, or lack thereof, of him, had gotten so bad that when he signed on to star in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, he had to hire a dialect coach to relearn how to speak. with an English accent. "For the first time in my career my name was above the title. It said, 'Charlie Hunnam, BOOM, King Arthur.' I said, 'Here we go.'" Janet Leigh-Psycho Academy Award-winning actress Janet Leigh is best known for one role of hers: playing the character who is stabbed to death in a shower at the beginning of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

The scene terrified millions, including Leigh; After filming wrapped, she never felt comfortable in the shower again. In interviews, Leigh noted that she "stopped showering" after seeing the scene. "I still… I still haven't showered, that's the truth." On the rare occasions she had to shower, she only used it briefly while she looked directly at the door and didn't even draw the shower curtain. James Cromwell-Babe James Cromwell is the kind of actor whose appearance is so distinctive that most people know his face, but not his name. He landed one of his few leading roles in 1995's Babe, in which he was upstaged by a talking pig, but it all worked out, as it was not only a huge hit, but changed Cromwell's life, turning him from one man to another. . who occasionally flirted with vegetarianism until becoming vegan.

Cromwell has called the experience of making the film a turning point in his life, recalling in an interview with Vice that he was deeply affected by seeing a little pig react to being placed on a patch of grass. He said, quote, "When they put that little pig in that big field and he saw the blue sky, the green grass and the sea, that little pig just walked away. I told him, I don't want anything to do with this. I'm out." Since then, Cromwell has been an ardent supporter of animal rights, especially pigs, who, understandably, now have a special place in his heart thanks to Babe and its sequel, Babe II: A Pig in the City . "I know I'm aware of his suffering and I know I have an obligation to talk about his suffering and do something about it." Christopher McDonald-Happy Gilmore Christopher McDonald isn't exactly a household name, but his performance in Happy Gilmore is so memorable that generations of moviegoers can't look at a photo of his face without saying, "Hey, I'm Shooter McGavin!" That's just one role among many in a solid career, but it seems McDonald doesn't mind being forever associated with the brash golf pro.

McDonald told the A.V. Club, he accepted the role basically because he liked to play golf and won a tournament shortly after being offered the script. At first he was hesitant, saying that he wasn't eager to get back on a film set after filming two movies in a row, but getting paid to play golf and hang out with Adam Sandler seemed like a pretty sweet deal. According to McDonald, his "golf game got sick" as he was playing five hours a day, six days a week while filming, and as a bonus, now that he's synonymous with Shooter McGavin, he can basically play golf for free for the rest of his life. life. "Damn them!

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