15+ Actors who radicalized their look to play successful roles

The most chameleon profession of all seems to be acting. Those who dedicate their lives to this profession are able to cut or lengthen their hair, gain or lose weight, change their bodies and even their gender to compose a role with excellence, be it fictional or biographical. In Brazil, we have several super talented professionals who have already undergone major transformations to bring one or more characters to life.

We, from awesome.club, we bring you a list of actors who had the courage to change radically to make their characters as real as possible. Check it out:

The actress radically changed her look during the course of the soap opera, when her character, Ivana, revealed her sexual orientation to her family. She cut her hair very short, changed the way she dressed, gained a beard and even received a montage from the production to show that she had removed her breasts. All to better characterize the change of character. It was almost unrecognizable!

A passage that was marked in the memory of Brazilians was the drama of Camila, from the soap opera “Laços de Família”, in 2000. The character discovered that she had leukemia and the scene in which she shaves her hair, which was already falling out due to the illness, it was so emotional that the actress herself confessed in an interview that she really cried in front of the cameras.

The film, which was based on the book “Cazuza — only mothers are happy”, written by the singer’s mother, was released in 2004 and, to play the protagonist, Daniel had to be guided by nutritionists to lose 11 kilos. This was so that he could interpret the scenes that showed the advance of AIDS on the former lead singer of the band Barão Vermelho.

The actress, who began her career in the 1980s in jeans commercials, played the character Germana in the six o’clock soap opera “Novo mundo”. A poor shopkeeper who, with her characterization of rotten teeth, ragged clothes and dirt, barely let the audience believe she was Vivianne. But the actress confessed that playing a less attractive character was liberating. She stole the show and was praised as the highlight of the work’s female cast.

The actress shaved off her beautiful red locks and had to lose 7 kilos to play the role of Olga Benário, a communist party activist who was the wife and son of politician Luís Carlos Prestes. In addition to changing her appearance, the actress had to learn to shoot in barracks training.

The actress shone on the small screen in 2014 as the teacher Juliana in the soap opera that had the format of a fable. Her pink hair enchanted everyone for her delicacy and sweetness and she ended up becoming one of the most beloved characters in the plot.

The former Miss Paraná who participated in BBB5 had her first role in soap operas in 2006, in “Páginas da vida”. But it was in “Verdades Secretas” that she showed that, in fact, she had talent. Grazi starred in a drugged prostitute named Larissa who went to the bottom of the well because of her addiction.

The girl, who has been behind the small screen since she participated in the soap opera “Chiquititas”, in 2007 had to gain 7 kilos and use fillers all over her body to compose the character Carola. The actress says that she misses that time and that this is part of the profession: “being an actress is that, transforming yourself and a lot, if necessary!”

The actress had to gain 5 kilos to live, in the soap opera, a character who was bullied by her own mother and at school for being overweight. She confessed, in an interview, that the new body impacted her, but that it was necessary to compose the character Bárbara.

The actress shaved her head to characterize the character Letícia, who, in the soap opera, had leukemia. It was a big difference that the actress had cut her beautiful locks, but the new look only highlighted her blue eyes even more.

The actress, who played the character Domingas in Malhação (in 2008), had to gain 10 kilos to play the role of a girl who suffered rejection from the boy she was in love with. Today, the actress has gained a few pounds with motherhood, but confesses that she handles it well.

Rodrigo is an actor who started in Brazil and had several appearances outside the country. We highlight two of his most significant characterizations on the big screen. In “Carandiru”, the actor played the character Lady Di, who was transsexual and was serving time in prison. Already in “300”, he played the role of Xerxes (Ahasuero), a king who married Esther, both mentioned in the Bible.

The actress played her first bad character, Malvina, in the series “Amorteamo”. To compose the role, Marina wore a wig with long black hair and looked very different from the one we’ve known since she started on the small screen as a child.

Deborah had to lose 12 kilos in 45 days for the movie “Good Luck” and then gained almost 20 to play the character of a failed actress in the movie “A Estrada do Diabo”. In addition, in the last soap opera, she cut her hair very short to characterize the character of “Segundo sol”.

The presenter and actress played the role of federal police officer Lígia in the film “Travessia”, which premiered in 2017. She left aside her traditional Chanel and put on long blonde hair extensions to assemble the character in the film by director João Gabriel, set in Salvador.

The Brazilian actor was hired to star in the biography of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug trafficker, and gained no less than 20 kilos to play the role. In addition, he let his mustache and hair grow to look even more like Escobar. Wagner lived in Colombia for 6 months to better acclimatize to the drug dealer’s country of origin.

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