20 times actors went method and nailed the role

20 times actors went method and nailed the role | Image Source: All original Sources
20 times actors went method and nailed the role | Image Source: All original Sources

16. Matt Damon - Courage Under Fire

Matt Damon in Courage Under Fire | Image Source: Apple TV+
Matt Damon in Courage Under Fire | Image Source: Apple TV+

Before his fame from the Good Will Hunting and Jason Bourne film series, Matt Damon was an up-and-coming actor in the early 1990s. He got his breakthrough in the 1996 war drama Courage Under Fire, where he played the role of Specialist Andrew Ilario, a former medic who copes with the traumas of war through heroin addiction. Damon lost so much weight to play the role that he weighed just 139 pounds. His regimen was brutal: he ran 13 miles daily and mostly ate chicken breast.

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Edited by Sarah Nazamuddin Harniswala