This fall, television viewers will get to see Oprah Winfrey return to the public eye when she commentates on CBS’ esteemed 60 Minutes. The TV giant says she’s determined to share the voices of various men and women from multiple backgrounds.
Perhaps viewers best remember Oprah as a Hollywood legend who successfully lost an enormous amount of weight. It is no big secret that major actors get millions and millions of dollars for playing enormous Hollywood roles. However, their preparation for the parts often includes much more than simply remembering a few lines of dialogue.
Giant celebrities are known to drop roughly 50 pounds for particular roles, such as a historical middleweight boxing champion or as a crack addict. As evident with many golden Oscar trophies, losing weight for major body transformations can be extremely rewarding, as well as entertaining.
Jerry, the owner of an Oviedo luxury home thinks Robert De Niro is living proof that it is possible to completely alter your shape. Seven years before fattening himself up to portray the Prohibition-era Chicago mobster, Al Capone, in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables, he played a champion boxer from the Fifties on the big screen.
For the timeless Martin Scorsese flick from 1980, Raging Bull, De Niro bulked up his muscles, while losing dozens of pounds to portray the real-life professional athlete, Jake La Motta. De Niro then added approximately 50 pounds to look like the retired version of the “Brooklyn Bull.” All of the weight training certainly paid off for the actor. Asking the famous question, “Who’s an animal,” De Niro was the beast who earned a Best Actor Oscar as the weight-fluctuating Raging Bull.
Jesse is an Oviedo real estate owner who prefers watching Edward Norton gain instant fame for his role as a neo-Nazi from Venice Beach in 1998’s American History X. Norton beefed up, adding 30 pounds of muscle to his frame for the memorable role. Greatly influenced by his bigoted father, the likable character turns into a murdering skinhead who finds himself behind bars. It takes years of incarceration for the muscular character to finally learn his lesson and change his ways. Norton earned himself a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his memorable work in American History X.
In 2004, Hollywood hunk Christian Bale dropped 60 pounds to portray an insomniac in The Machinist. He later put on plenty of muscle to play Bruce Wayne in the most recent Batman releases. As Paul, a gentleman with Oviedo Florida real estate condos points out, Bale won a well-deserved Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2010 for his genuine portrayal of crack-head Dickie Edlund, brother to real-life boxer Micky Ward.
So how do these celebrities do it? Do they starve their bodies for weeks at a time? Is it surgery, or is there some secret diet in Southern California that only the rich and powerful can utilize? I think not. According to Oprah, it is smart dieting and exercising. Can you do it at your Oviedo home for sale?
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