9 Insane Times Movies Stupidly Hid Actors Behind Prosthetics

8. Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar

If an actor jumps into the makeup chair, undergoes hours of prosthetics and transforms into a historical figure, their chance of nabbing an Academy Award jumps up massively.

That same end result was no doubt what Leonardo DiCaprio and Warner Bros. were expecting when the actor was signed up to play the titular character in Clint Eastwood's rightly-forgotten J. Edgar. Unfortunately, it wasn't to be.

Playing the former head of the FBI across multiple decades of his life, DiCaprio was aged-up for major chunks of the movie, given a receding hairline and a Marlon Brando-esque makeover.

Unfortunately, because these present-day sequences were juxtaposed with flashbacks where the actor looked like his regular old self, they were even more distracting - not least because they also made him look a little like Matt Damon.