We've all had tough days at the office.
But some actors, dedicated to giving it their all, took their work a few steps too far.
Though these critically-acclaimed, often award-winning performances are a delight to watch, the experience
of preparing for and recovering from these roles did a number on the actors involved,
and left a lasting impression — not always for the positive.
Here are several actors who went the extra mile for their craft.
Isabelle Adjani - Possession
Any horror buff knows the subway scene in Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 Possession to be one
of the most horrifying, shocking moments of body horror ever to grace the silver screen.
And if you haven't seen the film, buckle up, you're in for a treat.
Isabelle Adjani won a César Award for her performance, but the intense physical and
emotional demands of the role made for an extremely difficult recuperation.
Adjani later told a French magazine that it took her "years of therapy" to get Anna out
of her system, and that she would never again attempt another role like it.
Adrien Brody - The Pianist
Though Brody's physical transformation for 2002's The Pianist is obvious, the actor has
also discussed the enormous mental and emotional strain of portraying a Holocaust survivor,
which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003.
"Y'know, my experiences of making this film made me very aware of the sadness and dehumanization
of people at times of war."
To prepare for the role, Brody gave up his apartment, sold his car, disconnected his
phones, and moved to Europe.
But it was the emotional effect of intense hunger during his extreme crash diet that
he found the most surprising and difficult challenge to deal with.
Brody told the BBC,
"I've experienced loss, I've experienced sadness in my life, but I didn't know the desperation
that comes with hunger."
There were moments when he wasn't sure he'd get out of the experience with his sanity
intact, saying it took a year and a half to, quote, "settle back into things."
Colin Firth - The King's Speech
Colin Firth plays the future King of England, George the Sixth, in the Oscar-winning The
King's Speech, and has to give a number of speeches in addition to a number of other
royal duties.
The film has a villain of sorts in the form of a near-debilitating stammer that ruins
nearly every speech George gives until he hires a vocal coach.
"Prince Albert … Frederick … Arthur … George."
Firth himself also worked closely with a voice coach and watched recordings of George speaking
to better emulate both his vocal shortcomings, as well as his physical mannerisms and nervous
tics when stammering.
Firth immersed himself so deeply in the role that he admitted in an interview that he still
occasionally lapsed into the stammer when speaking casually, even briefly stammering
during the interview itself.
It's worth noting that this happened in May of 2011, a full eight months after the film
premiered in September of the previous year.
Judging by how flawlessly he enunciated every syllable in Kingsman: The Secret Service while
taking down thugs with an umbrella in 2014, it looks like Firth has since gotten over
the stammer.
Hugh Laurie - House
During the casting process of House, the producers famously explained that they wanted a "quintessentially
American actor" to play Dr. House, shortly before hiring British actor Hugh Laurie.
Laurie apparently got the role because his American accent on his audition tape was so
convincing nobody realized he was British — the director of the pilot even pointed
to the tape and said, "See, this is what I want: an American guy."
"I was expecting you in my office 20 minutes ago."
"Really?
That's odd, because I had no intention of being in your office 20 minutes ago."
Laurie also really went for it when it came to walking with a limp to portray the cane-using
House.
So much so, the actor still walked with a limp in 2015 after eight straight years of
pretending to have one on set.
Laurie also reportedly attempted to ease the load on his leg by occasionally switching
the leg had a limp, something he claims nobody ever noticed or called him on during filming
or in the years since show ended.
Apparently Laurie's acting is so good he can make people overlook both his British-ness
and the fact he didn't always limp with the same leg, despite that being a defining aspect
of the character.
Bob Hoskins - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
One of late British actor Bob Hoskins' most famous roles was that of alcoholic L.A. gumshoe
Eddie Valiant in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Hoskins had to spend several hours a day for eight months talking to and acting alongside
cartoon characters who weren't really there.
"Scotch on the rocks.
And I mean ice!"
Hoskins would later note that he "learned how to hallucinate" that Roger and the other
characters were actually there to cope with the dissonance of constantly hearing their
voices but never seeing them while filming.
When shooting finally ended, Hoskins found himself constantly talking to himself and
even hallucinating that Roger was sitting in the same room for months afterwards, prompting
his doctor to advise him to take a much needed break from acting.
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Ledger's performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight was so chilling that it landed him
an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor—tragically, it was a posthumous award, as Ledger had died
of an accidental drug overdose in January 2008.
"Does it depress you, commissioner, to know just how alone you really are?"
In the years that followed his premature death, rumors swirled that the preparation for the
dark role had contributed to Ledger's demise.
Before filming began, Ledger put himself in strict isolation, keeping a diary of disturbing
images to enter "the realm of a psychopath."
He sometimes only slept "two hours a night," while filming, according to a November 2007
interview with The New York Times.
It was a mixture of "painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills" that ultimately
caused Ledger's death just two months later.
Charlie Hunnam - American TV & Movies
Charlie Hunnam has played everything from a soccer hooligan to a giant robot pilot,
and he's known for his extraordinarily convincing American accent, making him one of a handful
of chameleon-like British actors able to convincingly pass as American in his various roles.
"You rescued her.
You raised her.
You're not protecting her now.
You are holding her back."
Years of living in the States, however, took their toll on Hunnam's actual, real-life accent,
and when he appeared on TV in 2013 to plug a movie on Conan, he spoke with a bizarre
amalgamation of various American dialects that prompted confusion and mockery, especially
in Hunnam's native U.K.
"I went out just as he was rounding the side of the house, and he stopped, I looked at
him, and said, 'So we got business, motherf-----?'"
Hunnam spoke about this in 2017 when he admitted that his accent—or lack thereof—had gotten
so bad that when he signed on to star in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, he had to hire
a dialect coach to re-learn how to speak with an English accent.
"For the first time in my career my name was above the title.
It said, 'Charlie Hunnam, BOOM, King Arthur.'
I said, 'Here we go.'"
Janet Leigh - Psycho
Academy Award-winning actress Janet Leigh is known mainly for one role: playing the
character who gets stabbed to death in a shower early on in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
The scene terrified millions, including Leigh—after filming wrapped, she never felt comfortable
in a shower again.
In interviews Leigh noted that she "stopped taking showers" after watching the scene.
"I still... I still don't take showers, that the truth."
On the rare occasion she had to take a shower, she would only use it briefly while staring
directly at the door—and she wouldn't even draw the shower curtain.
James Cromwell - Babe
James Cromwell is the kind of actor whose appearance is so distinctive most people know
his face, but not his name.
He scored one of his few leading film roles in 1995's Babe, in which he was upstaged by
a talking pig—but it all worked out, given that it was not only a massive hit, but it
changed Cromwell's life, turning him from a guy who occasionally flirted with vegetarianism
into a vegan.
Cromwell has called the experience of making the film a turning point in his life, recalling
in an interview with Vice that he was profoundly affected by seeing a small piglet react to
being put onto a patch of grass.
He said, quote, "When that little pig was put down on that big pitch and saw the blue
sky and the green grass and the sea, that pig just took off.
I said, I don't want any part of this.
I am out."
Cromwell has been an ardent supporter of animal rights ever since—especially pigs, which,
understandably, now have a special place in his heart thanks to Babe and its sequel, Babe
II: A Pig in the City.
"I know that I'm aware of their suffering, and I know I have an obligation to talk about
their suffering, and to do something about their suffering."
Christopher McDonald - Happy Gilmore
Christopher McDonald isn't exactly a household name, but his performance in Happy Gilmore
is so memorable that generations of filmgoers can't look at a picture of his face without
blurting out "Hey, it's Shooter McGavin!"
That's just one role out of many in a solid career, but it looks like McDonald doesn't
mind being forever associated with the hot-headed golf pro.
McDonald told the A.V.
Club he took the role basically because he enjoyed playing golf—and won a tournament
shortly after being offered the script.
He was hesitant at first, saying he wasn't eager to get back on a film set after shooting
two movies back to back, but being paid to play golf and hang out with Adam Sandler seemed
like a pretty sweet deal.
According to McDonald, his "golf game got sick" since he played for five hours a day,
six days a week while filming, and as an added bonus, now that he's synonymous with Shooter
McGavin, he basically gets to play golf for free for the rest of his life.
"Damn you people!
This is golf, not a rock concert!"
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