10 Actors Who Are UNRECOGNISABLE In Upcoming Horror Movies
2. Peter Dinklage - The Toxic Avenger
Many heads were turned when Peter Dinklage was announced to be leading the long-gestating remake of cult classic superhero horror flick The Toxic Avenger, and even more so once the first pictures emerged of Dinklage's transformative appearance in the film.
Dinklage plays Winston Gooze, a terminally ill janitor who falls into a vat of toxic waste and is reborn as the mutant vigilante Toxie, aka The Toxic Avenger.
However, the production has actually kept one aspect of Dinklage's performance rather hush-hush. Dinklage, of course, portrays a pre-transformation Winston in the early going, but if you're wondering how the filmmakers convinced him to be piled under so much makeup and prosthetics, the truth is, they didn't.
As has only been spoken about in recent weeks, Toxie was actually physically portrayed by a stand-in performance artist, Luisa Guerreiro, who isn't even mentioned on the film's Wikipedia page. Dinklage did provide the voice for Toxie during these scenes, but the physical portrayal of the character is such a stark difference from what we usually see of Dinklage for good reason - it isn't actually him.