History Main / DyeingForYourArt

* Alex Pettyfer shaved his head bald for ''{{Beastly}}''. Reportedly his hair had been a security blanket for him so the traumatic experience of getting it cut [[EnforcedMethodActing helped him understand]] [[BeautyToBeast his character's situation]].

* Many current DisneyChannel Stars sport a hair color different from there natural color. It's still probably too soon to know whether they're DyeHard or [[DyeingForYourArt doing it for their art]], but to name a few.
** DebbyRyan dyed her hair auburn for the role of {{Jessie}}

** GoodLuckCharlie has a major dose of this. Leigh-Allyn Baker is blonde as Amy Duncan, but was a redhead on WillAndGrace.

* EdwardNorton gained a lot of muscle for ''AmericanHistoryX'', and lost most of it afterwards to play the insomniac, beaten down protagonist of ''FightClub''. Also for ''American History X'', he as well as EdwardFurlong shaved their heads to play convincing skinheads.

* DemiMoore buzzed her hair down to the scalp on camera for ''GIJane'', and worked out religiously to simulate the effects of going through combat training. She had ''long'' black hair at the time.

* CharlizeTheron put on about thirty pounds, partially shaved and bleached her eyebrows, and had her actual hair thinned and damaged to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in ''Monster''.

* CharlizeTheron dyed her hair black in order to play the title character in ''Film/AeonFlux''

* To play Lisbeth Salander in DavidFincher's remake of ''[[TheMillenniumTrilogy The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo]]'', RooneyMara chopped her long brown hair off and went to a dyed-black pixie cut, bleached her eyebrows, got both ears pierced four times, and got her lip, eyebrow and one nipple pierced as well. Say what you will about her, she doesn't do things in half measures.
** NoomiRapace (the actress who played Salander in the original Swedish films) deserves mention also. In addition to performing image alteration similar to Mara's [[note]] she trained relentlessly to become thin and wiry, dyed and chopped her hair, got pierced etc.[[/note]], Rapace took up smoking for real during filming [[note]] smoking convincingly is actually quite difficult for non-smokers to emulate, and she wanted to get it perfect[[/note]] and took to dressing and acting "in-character" even when not on camera...to the point where family and friends began to worry as to her sanity. There's a very good reason she refused to do the role again for the American remake.

* Bryan Cranston shaved his own head on camera for ''BreakingBad'', though the scene was cut out.

* Gillian Anderson was asked to cut and dye her naturally long blonde hair into an auburn bob for the part of Dana Scully on ''{{The X-Files}}''.

* MattDamon:

* Creator/AnneHathaway lost a significant amount of weight to play Fantine in ''Film/LesMiserables2012''. She also did Fantine's TraumaticHaircut for real, on camera.
** Hathaway also apparently resorted to pretty extreme methods to lose said weight. She refuses to say precisely what she did, because she knows it wasn't safe and she didn't want to risk fans emulating her methods.

** HughJackman also lost weight and grew a beard for the opening scenes, after Valjean left prison. He then gained weight for the later scenes... and after filming wrapped had to bulk up to [[Film/TheWolverine a return to his trademark role]].

* At Theater/HalloweenHorrorNights 2010, all of the actors in the Havoc: Dogs of War house were required to shave their heads to more accurately play genetically-altered super-soldiers, including the girls. This has led to some surprisingly good reviews of the house so far, despite being predicted as that year's flop, as the cast arguably consists of the most dedicated performers in the whole event. Some of them have gone ''slightly'' nuts in their performances and risked damaging sets.

* At Theater/HalloweenHorrorNights 2010, all of the actors in the Havoc: Dogs of War house were required to shave their heads to more accurately play genetically-altered supersoliders, including the girls. This has led to some surprisingly good reviews of the house so far, despite being predicted as that year's flop, as the cast arguably consists of the most dedicated performers in the whole event. Some of them have gone ''slightly'' nuts in their performances and risked damaging sets.

* At Halloween Horror Nights 2010, all of the actors in the Havoc: Dogs of War house were required to shave their heads to more accurately play genetically-altered supersoliders, including the girls. This has led to some surprisingly good reviews of the house so far, despite being predicted as that year's flop, as the cast arguably consists of the most dedicated performers in the whole event. Some of them have gone ''slightly'' nuts in their performances and risked damaging sets.

* MonicaBellucci, for the Italian movie ''{{Malena}}'', dyed her own hair first red (and cut it at shoulder length), then blonde, then sacrificed it completely for the scene where she is [[TraumaticHaircut shorn]] by force by the other women of the city.
** She went blonde again for the film ''Le Deuxieme Souffle''.

* ''DragonTheBruceLeeStory'': To play BruceLee, Jason Scott Lee (no relation) trained with Jerry Poteet, who was a student of the real Lee.

* {{Website/Cracked}} has a few [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-actors-who-went-through-physical-torture-stupid-movies/ maligned examples]] here (except number one, which is more MethodActing).

* Shea Whigham lost weight inbetween seasons of ''BoardwalkEmpire'' to look appropriately gaunt after his character served 18 months in jail during a TimeSkip.
* Rob McElhenny (Mac) gained 50 lbs for the seventh season of ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,'' and lost most of the weight as the season progressed. He has explained that making his character get fat was part of the sitcom deconstruction that the show is aiming for.

* Aelita's as-yet-unnamed actress in ''Series/CodeLyokoEvolution'' had her hair sprayed pink for filming.

** KirstenDunst wore a wig for the first movie, but dyed it for the second third one.

** KirstenDunst wore a wig for the first movie, but dyed it for the second (and possibly third) one.

** Gained 23 pounds to play a quarterback in ''TheReplacements''.
*** He also gained weight for ''The Last Time I Committed Suicide''.

* Creator/JimCarrey's been putting on a lot of weight lately for his upcoming role as Curly in the upcoming ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' movie.
** However, Carrey dropped out of the film because he was worried about his health.
** And he shaved his head for ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.

* Demi Moore shaved her head for her role in ''Film/GIJane''. She had ''long'' black hair at the time.

* DemiMoore buzzed her hair down to the scalp on camera for ''GIJane'', and worked out religiously to simulate the effects of going through combat training.