7 Actors Who Went Through Incredible Body Transformations (But Not For The Movie You Think)

In an age where superhero movies are more popular than ever before, it's little surprise that actors are constantly undergoing insane physical transformations to more closely resemble larger-than-life heroes and villains.

Even with months of preparation and the best trainers that money can buy, the results are undeniably impressive, to see everyday-looking actors convert their bodies into muscular temples the rest of us can only aspire to.

But while these transformations can make for great stories, they're not always quite what you think - sometimes the actors in question did most of the hard work for another role entirely.

Though all seven of these remarkable transformations are undeniably stunning, the actors actually undertook the bulk of the work for a different movie, and whether by coincidence or design, managed to neatly dovetail all that effort into whatever they were shooting next.

Perhaps those earlier projects were smaller movies or simply nowhere near as good as what followed, but they nevertheless laid the foundation for the more headline-grabbing transformation story...