20 times actors went method and nailed the role

12. Jamie Foxx - Ray

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Before Ray, the best-known work of Jamie Foxx was his television smash The Jamie Foxx Show and films as small as Booty Call, but in Ray, he proves to be a huge talent. To prepare himself for the part of Ray Charles, Foxx dieted down to a skinny 160 pounds and pasted his eyes closed. He also had a dental prosthetic chipped the front teeth for real-ness. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor this time and earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Collateral, where he played some offbeat cab driver the same year but took much less time to rehearse.

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