10 Artists Who Were Unrecognizable To Bring Their Characters To Life

There are, in dramaturgy, several iconic characters who deserve, from their interpreters, the best of themselves. This means that if you need to radically change your physical appearance, your hair or even learn something new, actors and actresses will do it with mastery and love, given that, many times, their work represents the life of someone who can inspire or teach many people. people.

In order to show several changes, whether physical or from new skills, is that the awesome.club brought this compilation of Brazilian and foreign artists who transformed themselves into another person to build the true face of a character.

Carolina Dieckmann is an icon when it comes to transformations of Brazilian actresses, given that when she shaved her head (which was not in the script) in the soap opera Laços de Família, everyone was very moved by the scene, but also by the actress’s delivery in show a character with cancer.

The actress declared: “I didn’t think I was beautiful until I was bald” and this demonstrates how a character can actually affect an actor, demonstrating that art is indeed an imitation of life. In addition, even though it was a radical change, Carolina said that if necessary, she would do it again.

Bruna is a multifaceted actress who really gives herself to the roles, after all, who doesn’t remember the teacher Juliana, in meu Pedacinho de Chão, whose hair was pink? In Pantanal, Bruna, in addition to changing her locks, ended up going through some troubles in the recordings. She had, for example, to keep washing her locks with mineral water so as not to change the color of her hair, and living with the animals was not the most peaceful, as she felt that she was invading their spaces like “a foreign human animal”.

Larissa, from Verdades Secretas, was a character who brought not only a tremendous reflection on addictions, but also gave Grazi Massafera an understanding of the profession, that there is a social role in the role of the actor. To play the character that earned her an Emmy nomination for Best International Actress, Grazi had to lose three kilos, study a lot about chemical dependency and got to talk to addicts who lived on the streets.

Actress Alanis Guillen began her artistic career on TV in 2019, but even with little time on the small screen, she got an important role in the remake of Pantanal, in which she plays Juma Marruá. In addition to all the physical transformations, such as huge hair, uncut nails and cuticles removed, she had to study a lot about jaguars and, during the recordings, face an attack by ants, which even ruined her clothes.

Juliana Paiva is a Brazilian actress who has starred in several telenovelas, such as Além do Horizonte and Salve-se quem pode. However, it was in O tempo não para that the actress was able to show her potential, playing the character Marocas, a “fun, intelligent, curious and courageous woman. Despite being a girl from the 19th century, there is nothing fragile about her”. In the last chapter of the soap opera, Juliana had to make the version of Marocas very old, so she had to go through hours of transformation that involved make-up and a wig. The team said: “They were prostheses that took almost a month to be ready and we estimate about four hours to be able to carry out the whole process”. Be patient, eh?

Charlize Theron is a renowned actress and known for several successful films, such as Rules of Life, Devil’s Advocate and Mad Max. In addition to being able to interpret different types of characters, Charlize gives herself extremely to her interpretations, going through physical transformations that are not easy, nor fast.

This can be seen in her performance in the film Monster, in which she plays Aileen Wuornos, a woman with a troubled life. The character earned Charlize several awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe, in the Best Actress category. To do so, Charlize had to gain 13 kg, wear layers of latex, remove her eyebrows and use dental prostheses. Impressive, isn’t it?

Juliana Paes is known for playing very successful roles, such as Gabriela, in the homonymous soap opera inspired by Jorge Amado’s novel, Rita, in Laços de Família and Bibi, in A Força do Querer. Undoubtedly, she is an actress sought after by many directors and greatly loved by viewers. In Pantanal, Juliana had to go through physical changes that made her look older.

It was with makeup that created wrinkles and spots on her face and white hair extensions that shaped her flowing hair that Maria Marruá was born. The woman who becomes a jaguar is, without a doubt, a milestone in the career of the actress who declared: “It is gratifying to be able to give up vanity, the current aesthetic and, more than giving up that, to see beauty in it. I see beauty in dark circles, in white hair, I see poetry in these marks of time.” Really very interesting the delivery of the actor to a character, isn’t it?

Viola Davis, known for her role as Annalize Keating in the How to Get Away with Murder series, is a magnificent actress who manages to convey the character’s emotions in a unique way, after all, who hasn’t gotten mad at her because of Annalise? Her performance in the series earned her several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, and ended up taking an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series.

In The Supreme Voice of the Blues, Viola incarnates Ma Rainey or the “Mother of the Blues”, and is unrecognizable. After all, the fillers, makeup, and gold dentures really turned her into a 1920s woman.

Wagner Moura is known in Brazil for being an actor who plays several successful characters, such as Captain Nascimento in Tropa de Elite and Olavo, in Paraíso Tropical. To play Pablo Escobar in Narcos, he had to undergo a major transformation: he gained about 20 kg, let his mustache and hair grow. Such a change, for those who know him from Tropa de Elite, for example, left him practically unrecognizable.

The Big Trick, Batman — Dark Knight and The Empire of the Sun are just some of the films made by the Englishman. Christian Bale is an actor who manages to embody several characters and he does it with mastery. In addition, he is also known for his extreme body transformations, which can be seen in The Worker, Batman and The Trapaça. All of these productions required extreme physical transformations from the actor. For O Operário, for example, he lost 24 kg after four months of a strict diet, reaching 54 kg; in A Trapaça, he weighed 103 kg to play Irving Rosenfeld, a role that earned him nominations for best actor at the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. It’s amazing how versatile an artist can be!

It’s always good to remember inspiring stories of our favorite artists, isn’t it? If you think of any other characters that should be here, let us know in the comments!