Greatest amount of weight gained or lost by an actor for a film.
I’m not trying to be funny. But I can’t imagine they would keep records of such a thing.
Vincent D’Nofrio has been in many great movies and I often cannot recognize him from one to the next.
But he must have made several fortunes as the executive producer for all those Law & Order series. I can’t imagine how he finds the time to both act and produce.
Here’s a picture of relatively thin Roger C. Carmel, apparently from “Three’s Company”, after his Star Trek role, illustrating the gaining-and-losing aspect:
Here’s a picture of relatively thin Roger C. Carmel, apparently from “Three’s Company”, after his Star Trek role, illustrating the gaining-and-losing aspect:
In 1964, German actor Gert Fröbe played the villain Goldfinger in the James Bond movie with the same title. He was fat:
16 years earlier, 3 years after WW II, Fröbe (who was more than 6ft tall) starred in a German movie in which he looked starved (since this was post-war Germany, he probably was actually malnourished, no method acting here):
Going back a long ways, actress Judith Light was one of the first actresses to be known for a 'huge weight loss." But by today’s standards, her loss was pretty slight.
In 1978, Light assumed the role of Karen Wolek on the soap opera “One Life to Live.” When she took over the part, a lot of critics were baffled - why would the show’s producers cast such a ‘fat, frumpy’ actress as one of the series’ major heroines? But the writers (and Light herself) used her ‘frumpy’ appearance to give the character special depth; the outlandish storyline (Karen was a bored housewife who became a daytime hooker) was given ‘realistic underpinings’ because Karen had pathological self-esteem issues due to her appearance. She was driven to seek out ‘johns’ by a desire to feel ‘wanted’ by men. This was considered so believable that Light’s character became one of the all-time most popular soap opera characters.
Light of couse went on to star in “Who’s the Boss?” and become a Tony-winning stage actress. But in the early 80s, she was frequently on tabloid mag covers because of her “extraordinary weight loss.” The formerly fat, frumpy soap star was now a svelt, glamorous sitcom star!
The irony (at least from today’s perspecitve) is that the ‘fat, frumpy’ Judith Light looked like this. No, that’s not a mistake on my part, I didn’t load the wrong picture. That is what was considered ‘fat’ in 1982.
Um… I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply, but the average actress of 1982 would be a porker by today’s standards. This shot of JL is verging on “whale.”
We’re a sick culture - and we seem to get sicker with every era.
Mike Meyers. At one point during the filming of the Spy Who Shagged Me he must have weighed at least 500 pounds.
In a serious vein, Nick von Esmarch, a guy on a show called Nikki lost so much weight between the first two seasons that many people including me thought it was a different guy.
Jackie Gleason was never skinny, but when he went to Hollywood in the 40’s he managed to lose a lot of weight in an attempt to get leading roles. He didn’t get them and quit dieting.