10 Actors Who Put Themselves Through Hell For Upcoming Movies

10. Stellan Skarsgård Spent EIGHT HOURS A Day In Makeup - Dune

The primary antagonist in Denis Villeneuve much-anticipated adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi opus Dune - the first half of it, at least - is the grotesque Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, as will be played by Stellan Skarsgård.

Considering that the character in the novel is so absurdly overweight that anti-gravity devices are required to support him, it's little surprise that the not-remotely-obese Skarsgård had to sit in the makeup chair to be transformed into the Baron.

While it's not unheard of for actors to spend two, three, or four hours in makeup for drastic alterations to their appearance, Skarsgård ended up spending a patience-testing eight hours per shooting day getting makeup and prosthetics applied.

Thankfully for Skarsgård, the Baron's role in the movie is relatively small, and so he only needed to go through the process ten times.

Even so, that amounts to 80 hours - more than three entire days! - getting slap applied to his face and body, a process which could surely drive even the most perfectly sane person nuts.