20 actors that did bizarre stuff for a role

20) Jared Leto in Chapter 27

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Jared Leto gained a whopping 67 pounds to play Mark David Chapman, the assassin of John Lennon. Leto binged on junk food and even drank microwaved pints of ice cream mixed with olive oil for his role. This quick weight gain led to grave health problems, causing gout and, from then on, constant pain for Leto. Critics were divided over the film itself, but his extraordinary commitment to capturing Chapman's body and mental makeup established him as one of Hollywood's most extreme method actors.

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