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(#5) Renée Zellweger
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Renée Zellweger put on 30 lbs. for her lead role in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), going from a size 2 to a size 14. She quickly lost the weight and shrunk down to a size 0 to play the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago, only to gain the weight back to reprise the character of Bridget Jones in the 2004 sequel.
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(#10) Eric Bana
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Eric Bana gained 30 lbs. in a month to play Mark "Chopper" Read in Chopper (2000).
After he dropped the extra weight, he added lots of muscle to play Hector in Troy (2004).
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(#4) Vincent D'Onofrio
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Vincent D'Onofrio put on 70 lbs. to play Pvt. Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket (1987), ultimately weighing in at 280 lbs.
The physically imposing actor lost all the extra weight in just a few months, appearing as the buff garage owner "Thor" in Adventures in Babysitting, which came out during the same year as Full Metal Jacket.
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(#11) Vincent Cassel
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French actor Vincent Cassel packed on 20 kgs (44 lbs) to play gangster Jacques Mesrine in Mesrine (2008).
He then lost 10 kgs (22 lbs) to wear the huge heavy costume of La Bête (The Beast) in La belle et la bête (2014).
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(#7) Russell Crowe
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Russell Crowe gained 50 lbs. to play whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in The Insider (1999).
The next year, he dropped a ton of weight and built muscle to play Roman general Maximus in Gladiator (2000).
He then gained 63 lbs. to play a CIA agent in Body of Lies (2008).
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(#2) Robert De Niro
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Robert De Niro lost 35 lbs. to play Travis Bickle in the 1976 film, Taxi Driver.
A few years later, director Martin Scorsese had De Niro pack on 60 lbs. to play an older Jake LaMotta in the end of 1980's Raging Bull.
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