Fattening Up!
Actors who gained weight for film roles.
Weight Watchers, step aside! When a film role calls for a plumper
look, dedicated actors have accepted the challenge to heap more
victuals on their plates. The following cinema stars willingly gained
weight for film roles:
Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey for The Color Purple (1985).
Lauren Bacall, for How to Marry a Millionaire (1953).
Robert De Niro, for Raging Bull (1980) to look more like former
boxing-great Jake La Motto.
Janet Jackson, for her film debut in Poetic Justice (1993) to give her
a "homegirl" look.
Christopher Reeve gained 30 pounds, primarily muscle, for the title
role in Superman (1978).
Rod Steiger, for In the Heat of the Night (1967).
Elizabeth Taylor, to look older and less glamorous, for her
Oscar-winning role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
John Travolta, for Pulp Fiction (1994).
Toni Collette, for Muriel's Wedding (1994).
Sylvester Stallone, for Cop Land (1997).
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