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26 Wild Weirdo Ways Actors Prepared For Roles

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August 28, 2019

26 Wild Weirdo Ways Actors Prepared For Roles

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Acting is a skill, and like any skill, the people who do it professionally have certain tricks they use to get better at it. That's not surprising. What is surprising is how brain-punchingly weird those tricks can be.

This contest idea rattled out of the brain of YappyDoo while he was doing a series of fingertip exercises to maximize his meme-making skills.

26 Entry by Joshua Yapcengco

ORAGKEDOONN SAMUELLJACKSON SAYS MOTHERFETKER TO HIMSELF EVERY DAY TO HELP WITH HIS STUTTER.

25 Entry by Anthony Paparo

You'd think the craziest thing Shia LaBeouf did for Fury was cuttting his own face open. But LaBeouf also joined the United States National Guard, got

24 Entry by Ann Jimenez

26 Wild Weirdo Ways Actors Prepared For Roles

23 Entry by Ann Jimenez

In Rabbit Hole Aaron Eckhart is a mourning father who lost his son. To get the feel, Eckhart attended a support group and made up a story...pretending

22 Entry by PookieJones

Ashton Kutcher went on the fruitarian diet for Jobs. He wound up in the hospital with pancreas issues. CRACKED CON

21 Entry by Tee Ngin Rui

Robert Pattinson acted like a weirdo to prepare for his role as a robber in Good Time. He lived in a basement apartment, just like his character, and

20 Entry by Lornie Aswila Jeffrey Lausin

CRACKED COM THE MACHINIST In order to portray the anorexic lead in The Machinist, Christian Bale went on a diet consisting only of cigarettes and whis

19 Entry by RedWoodSeed

Meryl Streep wanted to have the perfect Polish accent in Sophie's Choice... So she learned Polish (And German)

18 Entry by Maclise

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17 Entry by Richard C. Shaffer

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16 Entry by Andrea Meno

To get into character as a demon biker in Ghost Rider, Nicolas Cage sewed a small sarcophagus into his jacket, as a power object. It was a greenish

15 Entry by Lornie Aswila Jeffrey Lausin

LesMiserables For the near-death look of Fantine in Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway ate only two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day.

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13 Entry by Markos Hasiotis

CRACKEDo COM BLUE VALENTINE Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams prepared for their roles by living together with their on-screen daughter for a month a

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THEGIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Rooney Mara shaved part of her head and had her eyebrow and nipple pierced for The Girl With The Dragon Tat'too.

11 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

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10 Entry by Harvey Sapigao

To perfect his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, Rami Malek hired a dialect coach, a movement coach, and learned how to sing and play pian

9 Entry by Anthony Paparo

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8 Entry by Harvey Sapigao

For his role in Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk wasn't just pretending as a Cinnabon worker; he knew what he was doing. That's because he was trained b

7 Entry by Andrea Meno

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To prepare to play the giant ape in King Kong through motion capture, Andy Serkis spent a year studying apes and visiting CRAGH the London Zoo. He als

5 Entry by Julio Espericueta

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena would go on ride-alongs with the LAPD for five CRACKED.COM months to be ready to play cops in the film End of Watch.

4 Entry by Ann Jimenez

To show commitment to his role as lord in a drug Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston learned how to cook meth from the DEA chemistry consultants on the show.

3 Entry by Andrea Meno

To play the great British painter J.M.W Turner, Timothy Spall CAKA Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter) trained with a watercolorist, on and off, for two

2 Entry by Lornie Aswila Jeffrey Lausin

MISSIDN: IMPOSSIBLE RIGUE NATIDN Tom Cruise trained with a professional diver for weeks to learn to hold his breath for around 6 1/2 minutes for an un

1 Entry by Maclise

Andy Robinson kept an in character journal to get into the mindset of Garak from Deep Space 9. The background material he wrote for the character was

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