28 Awful “Makeovers” Actors Did For TV/Film

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Dwight’s ridiculous haircut on The Office was truly Rainn Wilson’s concept. (*28*) he wrote in a Reddit AMA.

He stated in one other interview that he succeeded, “and then realized that my hair was going to have to stay the same as long as the show was on. So, here I am nine years later still wearing that hairstyle and still trying to figure out how to make it not Dwight-ish on my days off.” He stated as soon as the present was over, he wouldn’t miss “the terrible middle part.”

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Another character coiffure the actor vehemently hated was “The Rachel” on Friends. “I think it was the ugliest haircut I’ve ever seen,” she stated in 2011.

Later, she expressed frustration in having the haircut on days she wasn’t on set, as a result of she discovered it unimaginable to type on her personal. “I needed [my hairstylist] Chris [McMillan] attached to my hip. Left to my own devices, I am not skilled with a hairbrush and blow dryer.”

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Gwendoline Christie additionally hated her haircut for Game of Thrones, crying for 2 hours after it was first carried out.

“It’s very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine,” Christie stated. However, she stated it was price it, and in the end helped to each “change notions of femininity” and overcome being uncomfortable together with her androgyny.

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We all know Ariana Grande for her signature excessive pony — however she revealed a couple of years again that she truly needed to put on it as a result of the years she spent dyeing her hair crimson for Victorious led to it being so broken; the ponytail extension was actually her solely possibility.

“I had to bleach my hair and dye it red every other week for the first four years of playing Cat…as one would assume, that completely destroyed my hair. … I wear it in a ponytail because my actual hair is so broken that it looks absolutely ratchet and absurd when I let it down,” Grande wrote in a Facebook submit.

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The same factor occurred to Hilarie Burton in One Tree Hill. After two seasons of intense curling and bleaching, her hair was so broken she needed to lower her hair and return to a extra pure shade for Season 3.

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And Nikki Reed had a reallllyyyy dangerous expertise dyeing her hair blonde for Twilight. “It took 36 hours initially to make me blond, and each different day, I used to be bleaching my head and my pores and skin,” she instructed MTV.

Eventually, it received so dangerous that her hair began to fall out — so Reed, a pure brunette, opted to put on wigs for the remainder of the collection.

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Milla Jovovich needed to do the identical factor for The Fifth Element. Keeping her orange-hued type with brilliant white roots required bleaching her hair continually, resulting in her hair falling out in clumps only a few weeks into taking pictures.

She, too, needed to change to wigs. “We had to make the Leeloo wig because I literally had only, like, half…like, clumps of hair. It was really awful,” she instructed Vogue.

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Sometimes, the transformations aren’t everlasting, however nonetheless have an effect on actors vastly day-to-day. For instance, for his position in The Whale, Brendan Fraser needed to put on a prosthetic go well with — virtually nothing within the ultimate movie was CGI. Fraser referred to as the go well with “cumbersome” and extremely technical. “The torso piece was virtually like a straight jacket, with sleeves that went on, airbrushed by hand, to look equivalent as would human pores and skin, proper right down to the hand-punched hair,” he described.

With some variations of the go well with weighing 300 kilos, Fraser wanted assist simply to face up and sit down. The technique of getting him into the go well with alone took 5 to 6 hours, although this was later streamlined to 2 to 3 hours. And when he took it off, he would get vertigo from shedding the load.

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For the X-Men movies, Jennifer Lawrence had a far worse transformation: It took as much as eight hours to use her Mystique make-up, and he or she could not even sit right down to pee as soon as she was in costume.

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But the worst each day transformation has received to be Jim Carrey in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. He as soon as referred to as the method of being made into the Grinch “like being buried alive every day.” Makeup on the very first day took eight and a half hours, and Carrey practically stop.

The movie then employed somebody who trains CIA operatives on the right way to endure torture to raised put together Carrey for the make-up every day.

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For the movie Adrift, Shailene Woodley was solely capable of eat 350 energy a day for weeks to play a sailor misplaced at sea. She referred to as it depressing, saying she could not sleep at night time as a result of she will’t sleep when she’s hungry, so she’d should have a glass of wine to “put herself out for the night.”

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In one other excessive weight-reduction plan instance, Anne Hathaway stated she needed to principally “stop eating” for 13 days of taking pictures whereas filming for Les Misérables. She did not share the precise particulars of her weight-reduction plan (as she did not need anybody to repeat it), which brought on her to lose 25 kilos. Costar Isabelle Allen stated that Hathaway broke her arm after shedding the load on account of falling off her bike and being “thin and fragile” from her weight-reduction plan.

While the weight-reduction plan sounds depressing, it wasn’t Hathaway’s solely problem with taking up the position. She additionally had her lengthy locks chopped off onscreen in a single scene, and was “inconsolable” after.

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Margaret Cho was additionally pressured to shed extra pounds for All-American Girl. She was instructed she “was too overweight to play the part of [herself].” She then drastically decreased her meals consumption, and later ended up within the hospital with kidney failure from “not eating.”

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On the other finish of the spectrum, Charlize Theron needed to acquire weight for her position in Tully. Increasing her consumption of sugar and processed meals truly ended up making her get “hit in the face pretty hard with depression. … I was not that fun to be around on this film.”

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Jared Leto is thought for committing to roles, so it is no shock he additionally gained weight for a task — in his case, 67 kilos for his position within the movie Chapter 27. To acquire the load, he drank microwaved pints of ice cream combined with olive oil and soy sauce.

As a consequence, he developed a type of arthritis referred to as gout, and medical doctors needed to place him on a ldl cholesterol drugs. He later stated he’d by no means do something like that once more and would not advise others to attempt.

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George Clooney needed to acquire weight for his movie Syriana. He stated, “There was nothing fun about it” and referred to as it “not the best time.” He gained 40 kilos in 30 days, and stated that shedding that new weight was “a lot harder than putting it on.”

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Robert De Niro gained 55 kilos to play boxer Jake LaMotta in his older years in Raging Bull. The fast weight acquire brought on him to begin getting rashes on his legs. Director Martin Scorsese stated his respiratory was additionally affected, and reminded him of his personal respiratory throughout an bronchial asthma assault.

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Matt Damon, in distinction, needed to pack on the muscle for his position within the Bourne movies. Starring in Jason Bourne at age 45, he emphasised the period of time spent within the health club. “It’s not worth it! … It’s no way for any of us to live,” he stated. “Unless it’s your job, three hours a day within the health club, or two hours after which a future later…or a protracted hike with a weight vest on…it simply sucks.”

“And then, it’s the diet where you’re not really eating anything you want to eat. You’re not having that glass of wine at the end of the day…it’s pretty lame,” he continued.

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Chris Evans additionally struggled with the period of time he needed to spend within the health club in preparation for his position as Steve Rogers/Captain America. “It was grueling,” he said. “It was brutal, and I’d discover any excuse potential to not go.” But, he said, “I needed to do it.” He ended up having to placed on 20-30 kilos of muscle.

When he was carried out taking pictures the primary movie, he “stopped going to the health club utterly for about three months,” he said. In fact, now that his stint as Cap is over, he says he is misplaced 15 kilos, and is relieved to not should sustain that degree of health.

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In an much more excessive instance, Zac Efron needed to drop right down to solely 5 p.c physique fats for Baywatch. “I realized, when I was done with that movie, that I don’t ever want to be in that good of shape again,” he later stated. “It was so hard. You’re working with almost no wiggle room. You’ve got things like water under your skin that you’re worrying about, making your six-pack into a four-pack, shit like that.”

He needed to take “powerful diuretics” to lose water weight, and would get up as early as 4 a.m. for exercises. “I began to develop insomnia, and I fell into a reasonably dangerous despair, for a very long time. Something about that have burned me out. I had a extremely onerous time re-centering,” Efron instructed Men’s Health.

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Back to hair — Josh Hutcherson hated having to dye his pure brown hair blonde for The Hunger Games movies. “I’m excited to shed the blonde hair!” he stated in an interview on ABC as soon as filming was carried out.

“That’s the thing that I was like, ‘Get out of here!’ Having to do touch-ups all the time and get my hair re-dyed and bleached was not my thing at all.”

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His Hunger Games costar, Jennifer Lawrence, needed to dye her naturally blonde hair darkish for her position. Preferring her blonde hair, Lawrence would return to blonde between movies — however her second time doing so, issues did not go so properly.

“She wanted to go back to blonde for awards season, but her hair had so much color build-up that she decided to cut it off to her shoulders,” Catching Fire hair designer and head stylist, Linda Flowers, instructed Cosmopolitan.

“I tried to lift the brown pigments out of her hair twice with a base-breaking formula, which helped, but then Jennifer went to her personal colorist and spent eight hours there, bleaching it,” Flowers stated. “The entire process really damaged her hair, so that’s when she went full pixie to get her hair back to a healthy state.” Jennifer definitely rocked the pixie lower, however I doubt she was anticipating going brunette and again, killing her hair. After this, Lawrence wore a wig for the ultimate two motion pictures.

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Sophie Turner was well-known for her crimson hair on Game of Thrones, however she’s truly a pure blonde.

She was continually dyeing her hair crimson after which blonde once more — and certainly one of these instances, her hair by no means recovered. “A few years ago, I was trying to go back from red to blonde, and it destroyed my hair to the point that I had to use a wig for Game of Thrones,” she instructed Glamour. “They wouldn’t let me dye it back red, or my hair would’ve fallen out.”

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Surprisingly, one star who needed to bleach his hair steadily for a task did not expertise hair loss — however nonetheless, the method wasn’t precisely enjoyable. I’m after all referring to the enduring platinum blonde, Draco Malfoy.

Tom Felton, who performed Draco, needed to dye his hair each 10 days to forestall darkish roots and hold his hair white. He stated in 2008, “The worst thing was dyeing my hair blonde. It built some superhuman resistance, but it seems to have survived.”

But it wasn’t simply the hair that pissed off Felton. He additionally wasn’t allowed to tan, and needed to put on SPF 50 each time he was within the solar, in order that his pores and skin tone remained the pale white that was required of the character.

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James Marsters additionally needed to bleach his hair continually — in his case, each eight days — for his position because the vampire Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “They told me repeatedly my hair would fall out, or rather, they were not sure I would have hair by the end,” he stated.

“The makeup department was really particular: There can never be roots in your hair. So, for seven years, we did it every episode. I agreed to bleaching when I thought I was going to die in five episodes. I don’t know if I would have agreed to it for seven years,” He continued. His hair ended up surviving, however he added that “my scalp did not like that.”

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Like Felton and Marsters, Anna Paquin was additionally contractually obligated to maintain dyeing her hair blonde to play Sookie on True Blood. Answering what she did not like in regards to the taking part in the character at Comic-Con in 2009, Paquin stated she wished Sookie weren’t blonde.

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Kate Winslet initially cherished the thought of going brilliant crimson for Titanic, however the coiffure introduced on slightly extra hassle than anticipated. “I hadn’t counted on how hard it would be to go back to my natural hair color after filming,” she told Elle. “It took almost two years.”

She additionally expressed frustration together with her curls within the movie. “My hair isn’t naturally wavy, so it had to be curled every day and was impossible to maintain because there was water all around us,” she stated. “We were filming in a series of tanks, so the water was always in the air, and it would create a problem for everybody’s hair.”

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And lastly, let’s finish on yet one more poor actor whose hair was ruined by bleach: Carey Mulligan. She grew to become identified for her quick blonde pixie, however because it turned out, it wasn’t her favourite. “I hate my hair,” she stated. “After An Education, I had a small part in Michael Mann’s film Public Enemies, and he wanted me to dye it white blonde, and it wrecked my hair.”

“Literally, ruined it. It was falling apart, fried. So, I had to cut it off. I cried,” she revealed. “I got stuck with the short hair thing,” she additionally later defined, rebutting feedback from an interviewer that recommended she did it as a press release. “No! No statement. I loved having long hair.”