Gary Oldman claims to have sat in the makeup chair for 200 hours to become Winston Churchill in the Darkest Hour, but thats a catnap compared to some
Sometimes has become a Hollywood star isnt all its cracked up to be. In fact, there are some minutes the hell is downright unglamorous. Consider this: nearly every starring performer, at some level in his or her career, has had to transform his or her own torso for a role, necessitating ache and patience in equal measurement.( Sometimes, those changes are for programmes that bomb totally .) Other periods, actors must sit perfectly still in one place for hours on end, while professional makeup artists become their beautiful face into something hideous.
Gary Oldman recently announced that he had sat in the makeup chair for 200 hours cumulatively to be transformed into Winston Churchill for his role in the forthcoming Darkest Hour, an historic drama about the first days of the second world war. But where does that sit in the pantheon of patience and prosthetics?
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
When actors suffer through pain conversions for their artwork, they typically had only just been one thing on their brain: an Oscar. In La Vie en Rose, Cotillard plays Edith Piaf, the French jazz vocalist, at nearly every stage of their own lives, necessitating 3 hour of makeup for certain scenes. Cumulatively, she may have stood more than was needed; the make-up artists had a hard time determining the right look for Cotillard, necessitating multiple scenes to be reshot in the middle of filming. Becomes out the work was merit international efforts. La Vie en Rose won two Academy Honors, for best actress and best makeup.
John Matuszak in The Goonies
Hey, you guys! You probably dont know John Matuszak by epithet, and you certainly dont know his face. The former NFL lineman( with two Super Bowl resounds) played an unforgettable character in a childrens film, but he did it under makeup that took five hours to put on and build his already unfamiliar face unrecognizable. Devotees of The Goonies can never forget Sloth, the deformed younger brother of the rogue siblings out to stop a group of kids from discovering interred treasure. As an untrained performer, Matuszak brings to the role a powerful physicality and endearing innocence that glitters through, even under so many layers of latex.
John Hurt in The Elephant Man
In 1981, makeup artists does not already have their own category at the Oscars. But after The Elephant Man was denied such an honor, the rules were changed and a new regular category was announced. Its a well-deserved distinction, if only for the sheer quantity of time involved. John Hurt sat for seven to eight hours to transform into John Merrick, the real-life Leicester-born man who had Proteus disorder, which caused him to develop severe deformities. The makeup also took over two hours to remove after each day, and Hurt could have been work every other period because of the strain the heavy makeup put on his body.
Jennifer Lawrence in the X-Men movies
As time processions on, engineering improves, and certain processes get quicker. Thats the only interpretation for why Rebecca Romijns Mystique makeup took nine hours for X-Men, X-2, and X-Men: The Last Stand, while J-Law only had to suffer for eight hours to play the same character in X-Men: First Class. Standing in place for eight hours while a squad of artists paint your naked torso is not able to sound like fun, but its certainly better than doing it for nine hours.
Tom Hanks in Cast Away
Some actors go the extra mile for realism, eschewing the falseness of makeup for real, physical transformation. There are countless instances Robert DeNiro gaining 60 lb to play-acts Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, Christian Bale losing the same quantity for The Machinist but its worth singling out Tom Hanks, who has suffered the most for his art. Hanks gained 30 lb to play a washed-up ballplayer in 1992 s A League of Their Own, then lost 50 lb for 2000 s Cast aside, playing a human who had lived for years on a deserted island. Hanks was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2013, and has theorized that the dramatic weight fluctuation played a part.
Rod Steiger in The Illustrated Man
The late film critic Gene Siskel had a rule. He would ever dedicate a film a negative evaluation if he saw a documentary of those same actors hanging out and having lunch would be more enjoyable. A similar sentiment could apply to The Illustrated Man. Its a Twilight Zone knock-off about a nomad( Rod Steiger) who is covered head-to-toe in tattoos. When a young man asks about them, he launches into a series of narratives that are dramatized in the film, each one inspired by some of his torso art. As a film, its subpar, but look for the documentary Tattooed Steiger, which details the 20 -hour process by which the temporary tattoos were applied. Steiger only had to go through it once, but its an ordeal that persists in the mind much longer than the film itself.
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