10 Actors That Got Unnecessarily Committed For A Role

5. Ryan Gosling - The Lovely Bones

The Commitment: Just 28 when he was cast as middle-aged Jack Salmon - father to murdered 14-year-old Susie Salmon - in Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones, Gosling went about correcting that by adopting some middle-aged traits, namely growing a colossal Grizzly Adams beard and gaining 60 pounds, most of it in melted Haagen-Dazs, which Gosling would drink whenever he felt thirsty: "I really believed he should be 210 pounds," said the actor. I bet you did, Ryan. The Result: This is still a touchy subject for Gosling, as the below THR Actors Roundtable from a couple of years ago proved. When Gosling turned up on set, more ballooned and less "hey girl" than usual, he was greeted by confused looks, and discovered that his and Peter Jackson's interpretations of the Jack character were very, very different. He was swiftly removed from the film and replaced by Mark Wahlberg, leaving Gosling - in his own words - "fat and unemployed."