10 Movie Roles That Traumatised Actors

Losing everything, from your house, to your car, to your long-term girlfriend, sounds pretty unappealing. Unfortunately, tragic circumstances happen, and these situations can be totally unavoidable. Unless, say, you're Adrien Brody and you have a big part coming up in The Pianist, in which it seems perfectly logical to trash everything you own and leave everyone dear to you in an effort to truly capture loss. Each to their own.

Brody's commitment to the role as as Jewish pianist whose life is torn apart by the Holocaust is astounding, and resonated with the actor long after the curtains were drawn on the project. For a year afterwards, Brody suffered from a depression that he describes as coming from a place of mourning, a dark realisation of what the victims of World War II endured at the time. After successfully capturing the horrible, true moments that depict a man's world falling apart around him, it's no wonder that Brody took home an Oscar for the effort.

Trying to piece his life back together after filming, he spent a lot of time sleeping on friend's sofas and rebuild his body after essentially starving himself. It's a role that has stuck with him ever since - and it's clear why.