Actors have it pretty rough. Sure, they make millions of dollars for basically talking for 90 minute clips and then get butlers and supermodel girlfriends. But sometimes they have to diet. Or work-out. Or gain weight purposely by eating horribly. The horror. Okay, okay, I'm being a little bit tough on the actors. The way they literally physically transform themselves for their craft can at times be astounding. If I ever had to take a job where I had to eat nothing but apples and do a thousand push-ups a day, I'd be fired so fast it'd break the sound barrier. The fact that these stars are generally in situations where they could do a crappy romantic comedy once a year, make a cool $15 million for six weeks of sort of working and spend the rest of the year at their vacation home on private islands that don't even exist on current maps is actually very impressive and shows true dedication to the art form. So in their honor, grab your dumbbells and protein shakes and join us for 15 instances in which actors transformed themselves in memorable ways...
15. Mark Wahlberg - Pain & Gain (2013)
This year, Michael Bay's film Pain and Gain will showcase Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne "Don't Call Me The Rock" Johnson as two bodybuilders who probably get into hi-jinks of some kind. Real Oscar bait kinda stuff. Apparently in order to get huge, Wahlberg claims to have eaten 10 meals a day, with a supplementary weight gain formula and a massive workout regimen. And a dumpster truck's worth of steroids, if I were to bet on it. As terrible as this looks, if he avoids warning us about the bees it won't be the worst flick Wahlberg's made.