Robert Pattinson Masturbated To Completion On Set, And 17 More Wild Things Celebrities Did For Their Movie Roles

Because real-life artist Christy Brown, whose memoir inspired the film, could only control his left foot, Daniel also learned how to paint using a knife that he held between his toes.

Hilary went on to win an Oscar for her performance in the film, but in 2020 she said she felt a trans actor "would obviously be a lot more right for the role."

She told British Vogue , "It is three years since I started working on it, and I will be fully honest and transparent: I lived as [Reggiani] for a year and a half. And I spoke with an accent for nine months of that. Off camera. I never broke. I stayed with her.

He told Kevin Hart , Just bringing it up, I start to get teary. I wanted to feel the degradation of slavery, and I went too far in. That level of human brutality I had the chains on my neck and we were working. I wanted the real weight of them. I wanted real chains. They put it on my neck and they were fitting it for size, and the prop master went to put the key in and it didnt work."

He added, Im standing there and theyre running around, and they couldnt get me out of it. Im standing there in those chains, right on that hyperventilating edge.

He told the New York Times that he experienced panic attacks during the first two weeks of filming before he became accustomed to the "unsettling, claustrophobic feeling." He even shared that cast and crewmates often forgot that he couldn't see, and they'd accidentally "leave him sitting alone at a table after lunch on the assumption that he could get back to the set on his own."

However, in real life, Leo is reportedly a vegetarian, and at least a supporter of veganism.

When asked why he didn't just fake it for the camera, Robert shared, "[It} just doesnt work, so I pleasured myself in front of the camera."

Steve Jobs was known to be a "fruitarian," living on a mainly fruit diet, which Ashton tried to replicate. His wife, Mila Kunis, explained, "He was so dumb. He ... only ate grapes at one point ... we ended up in the hospital twice. With pancreatitis ... it was really dumb!"

She said, "This wasn't a game we were playing called 'Let's try to make Charlize look ugly.' I didn't want it to look like a caricature. I just wanted it to look like Aileen."

He also learned how to speak Swahili and primarily ate mashed bananas and beans.

She said, When youre a kid, youre fearless, but starting at 26 years old, I had a lot of fear.

He said, "I abandon my life when I work. I don't wear the clothes or listen to the music that defines who I am. I don't communicate with friends or family. It sounds intense, but it's the process of getting there that is really hard."

"I soaked up everything, I watched every interview that I could," she said. "I slept in her bed at home. I talked to the whole family. I spent time with them. It can be melancholy and beautiful at the same time."

"I was missing everyone and everything good," he told BBC News. "But that put me right in the character. I want to feel that I'm experiencing something, I want to feel the journey, and I felt it." Even after the film, it took him "over half a year" to get settled again.

Gary even went on to say, You cant have Winston Churchill without a cigar.

"I had to learn to stammer and then play someone trying desperately not to. It put my left arm to sleep it was very peculiar. I must have been locking something, pinching a nerve. It was a semi-paralysis that would last for three or four days," he explained. "Derek Jacobi said to me, 'You could find it affecting your speech patterns for some time afterward. When the job's over, don't worry, it will go away.'"

Fans and even bandmates mistook Val for the real Jim Morrison on numerous occasions, and some even have tattoos of him. He said, "It still boggles me to this day to see people with a tattoo of me playing him and not knowing it isn't Jim. Happens more than you think.

Given the former vice president's history of cardiac episodes, Christian also learned a bunch about heart attacks while preparing for the role, and his research actually saved director Adam McKay's life during one.