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Filming in a movie is often time-consuming and time-consuming. The efforts of these actors have received critical acclaim, and their performance has received various awards.
Although their acting impressed many people and became iconic in its own way, it cost them quite a lot.
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Many people were so immersed in the role that it began to absorb actors, and they had a hard time returning to normal life.
Here are a few actors who went too far and were never able to be the same after an exhausting movie role.
1. Heath Ledger The Dark Knight (16+)
Playing the Joker in The Dark Knight was so penetrating that Heath Ledger's acting was rewarded with an Oscar for its supporting role.
Unfortunately, the award was posthumous, as the actor died of a drug overdose in January 2008. It was rumored that preparing for the role of a negative hero contributed to Lezder's death.
Jack Nicholson warned Heath Ledger against playing this role. Before filming began, Heath was in strict isolation and kept a diary to better understand the “world of psychopaths”. The actor began to suffer from insomnia and depression, often coming to the set even when he had days off.
By the end of the movie, many warned Heath that he had gone too far. An overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, and antidepressants eventually led to Ledger's death, and the last entry in his diary was “Bye, bye.”
2. Johnny Depp's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (18+)
When Johnny Depp was preparing for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, he jumped at the chance to play Hunter Thompson and practically moved to his basement to learn Thompson's manners and lifestyle .
When filming began, Depp's amazing role made the cast and crew worry about his condition. Depp and Benicio Del Torro were so dedicated to their roles that fans sometimes wondered if the actors were actually under the influence of acid.
Even a year after filming, Jonia Depp couldn't get rid of his character's manners. Depp and Thompson remained close friends until Thompson's suicide in 2005, and the actor paid $3 million to release his ashes from a huge cannon at the deceased's last wish.
It is believed that Depp's alcoholism and unstable condition were a prerequisite for his separation from his wife Amber Heard.
3. Shelly Duval “The Shining” (18+)
The Shining is considered one of the best horror movies of all time. Jack Nicholson's acting received the highest praise. The story takes place not only at the Overlook Hotel, but also in Jack Torrance's sick mind.
Perhaps many viewers did not realize that actress Shelly Duval did not imitate her screams in the famous baseball bat scene. Director Stanley Kubrick forced her to redo the traumatic scene more than a hundred times, which led to the actress's nervous exhaustion.
After filming, Shelley had an acute dislike for Kubrick, and in the following years she suffered from a mental disorder.
In an interview, the actress revealed that she had to scream 12 hours a day for 9 months. Filming went on for a little over a year, and after all that, critics did not like her work.
4. Anne Hathaway Les Miserables (16+)
The role in Les Miserables was an ordeal for Anne Hathaway. To get used to the role, she shaved her head and lost a lot of weight. The actress went on a severe diet, and she barely had the strength to play the role.
At some point, Anne began to lose touch with reality, and the role began to take a toll on her mental state.
She later recalled that she was in a state of physical and emotional exhaustion, and when she got home, she could not respond adequately to what was happening around her.
5. Janet Leigh Psycho (18+)
Few people can match director Alfred Hitchcock, who revolutionized cinema. His most famous horror film was Psycho, which was able to so clearly demonstrate the psychology of a murderer.
Although Psycho is one of the most iconic films in film history, filming it wasn't so much of a pleasure for actress Janet Lee, who played victim Marion Crane.
It took a whole week to shoot the scene where her heroine is killed naked and defenseless in the shower, inflicting numerous stabs with a knife.
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After that, Lee suffered from a phobia of souls for many years after the filming of the film. She only took a bath with the curtain open and always looked towards the door.
6. Keanu Reeves The Matrix (16+)
Everyone probably remembers the sad Keanu Reeves memes, but the actor wasn't always so depressed.
The Curse of the Matrix began when Keanu Reeves' girlfriend Jennifer Syme gave birth to a stillborn baby. The couple, unable to cope with the loss, broke up. Shortly thereafter, Syme died in a car accident.
After this tragedy, 22-year-old singer Alia, who was cast as Zee in the film, also died in a plane crash. This tragic event forced us to postpone filming for several months. And soon another actress, Gloria Foster, who played the role of the Oracle, died.
At some point, Keanu Reeves himself almost died, crashing into a mountain at full speed on a motorcycle. His sister, who was suffering from leukemia, was also in poor health.
Production costs for the film were rising steadily, and Keanu waived $24 million in his royalties to continue shooting. Fortunately, the film was a great success despite its setbacks.
7. Hugh Laurie, Dr. House (16+)
During the casting, producers were looking for a “typical American actor” to play Dr. House. But soon after, they hired British actor Hugh Laurie, whose accent was so compelling that no one guessed he was English.
Lori also got used to the role of the dark and limping Dr. House. He was so good at portraying limp after being forced to limp for 8 years of filming that he developed knee pain and began to limp in his life.
Hugh Laurie even tried to ease the load by sometimes changing his leg, which was limping.
8. Isabelle Adjani “Obsessed” (18+)
One of the most shocking moments in the 1981 horror movie Obsessed by Andrzej Zulawski was the full-screen vomiting scene.
The role of Anna, played by Isabelle Adjani, who won the Cesar Award, required a lot of physical and emotional effort from her, after which she was very hard to recover.
Isabel revealed that it took her several years of treatment to “get rid” of Anna, and she never auditioned for such a plan again. The actress led a rather reclusive life after filming this film and rarely gave interviews.
9. Adrien Brody “The Pianist” (16+)
Getting used to your hero's mindset is one thing, but giving up everything, including leaving your girlfriend, is quite another. Actor Adrien Brody took such extreme measures.
To play a role in the movie “The Pianist”, the actor decided to do everything to really feel what it means to lose everything, just like his character.
Brody sold his apartment and car, turned off his phone for weeks and was starving. He also broke up with his girlfriend to better convey the hero's suffering.
Brody himself admitted that he was terribly depressed after filming The Pianist, despite winning an Oscar.
“I've experienced loss, I've experienced sadness in life, but I didn't know the despair that comes with hunger,” he said. There were times when he wasn't sure if he could even return to his old life without losing his mind, and it took him a year and a half to recover.
10. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Box of the Curse (16+)
The horror film “The Box of the Curse” frightened not only the audience, but also battered the nerves of its actors a lot.
The film tells the story of Dibbuk's cursed box, which takes possession of who owns it.
This is not the first time that actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan has played a role in a film about paranormal activity. And while he was pretty skeptical about such things, he admitted he was pretty scared of what was going on on set.
For some unknown reason, light bulbs suddenly exploded or a cool wind began to blow in a tightly closed room.
The strangest thing was when the vault, which contained all the props, including the box, burned to the ground. The investigation found that the fire was not the result of arson or a short circuit.
The fire destroyed Dibbuk's box, and the owners of the real box offered to take it to shoot the film, but the crew refused.