2. Adrien Brody - The Jacket (2005)
To get his teeth into his role as a man who spends a lot of time in a straight-jacket, Adrien Brody - best known for that time he dumped his girlfriend so he could feel "sad" for
The Pianist - opted to get into a straight-jacket. It doesn't take a genius to figure out how this might've helped him to get into character.
The Jacket has Brody starring as a war veteran who gets shot in the head, is accused of murder, and ends up in a mental asylum. There, he's subjected to things like being put in a morgue drawer in a straight-jacket for hours at a time. Aside from actually opting to get into the straight-jacket for real, Adrien Brody also spent time in a sensory desperation chamber, because he didn't feel like dumping his girlfriend again. The idea is that you lay in a thin saline solution and your mind opens, but Brody impressed the crew with his ability to do it for hours at a time. Come release time, nobody could face saying that they were "going out to see
The Jacket" 'cause
Batman Begins was out, too, and this one kind of died in the water. Or, you know, in a thin saline solution.