20 Surprising Things Actors Have Done For Famous Roles

Did you happen to know that Michael Caine tried his hardest to not blink for eight straight years? How about the fact that both Robert De Niro and Jamie Foxx both worked as cabbies to prepare for roles? Ever wonder just how many live octopuses Choi Min-sik ate on the set of Oldboy, or how long Halle Berry went without bathing on Jungle Fever? Or maybe you remember that time that Jamie Dornan admitted to stalking a woman so that he could play a serial killer better, or when Dwayne Johnson tried to break some metal chains so hard that he screamed until he passed out?

Actors are wild, is what we’re getting at here, and there is no actor so wild as a method actor. The history of film and television is full of stories about the incredible lengths that some performers have gone to in order to give their performance just that little bit more oomph. They are fascinating, thrilling, and sometimes very frightening stories about how far people will go to pretend to be other people just that much more, and we want to honor that today by counting down twenty times that an actor went above and beyond the call of duty to give it their all.

So hang out with us for a while as we dive deeper than Daniel Day Lewis into some of the most intense performances in the history of Hollywood. You will never guess what the entry on Nicole Kidman is on, we swear. Not in a million years.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Michael Caine
0:49 Dwayne Johnson
1:13 Robert Pattinson
1:34 Nicole Kidman
1:57 Choi Min-sik
2:15 Meryl Streep
2:37 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
3:04 Jamie Dornan
3:23 Kate Winslet
3:47 Halle Berry
4:06 Robert DeNiro
4:27 Shia LeBeouf
4:52 Steve Carell
5:09 Joaquin Phoenix
5:29 Daniel Day Lewis
5:55 Nicolas Cage
6:16 Jamie Foxx
6:32 Daniel Day Lewis, Part 2
6:52 Tom Hanks
7:11 Forest Whitaker

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Written by: Sean Doyle
Narrated by: Jacoby Bancroft
Edited by: Caleb Pryor @imklubb

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