18 actors who seemed unrecognizable in major films

From wicked tapes to winning dramatic roles Oscar, these characters need total transformation.


We can go to the movies to see theactors we loveBut it is not uncommon for these faves absolutely nothing like them. It is practically a rite of passage for a star to take a character who does not look like them, then pass the press tour to talk about the hours when they have passed in the makeup chair every day. Sometimes this patience leads to a huge success; Even more often, this attracts the attention of the Academy. After all, there are manyOscar winners On this list of unrecognizable actors in some of their greatest roles. Read on to see the transformations we still can not overcome.

1
Emma Stone as ...

Emma Stone
Photo -Flash / Shutterstock agency

Year afterEmma Stonewon his best Acadess Academy price to sing and dance inLA THE EARTHShe took the court for a sports bioopic.

Billie Jean King inGender battle

Emma Stone in Battle of the Sexes
Fox Projector Photos

Tennis legendBillie Jean King, The stone not only dyed his signature red hair brown and suffered a subtle but significant makeup process tooput on 15 pounds of muscle In training forGender battle.

RELATED:17 actors who played the same character of years later.

2
Nicole Kidman as ...

Nicole Kidman
Shutterstock / FeatureFlash Photo Agency

Nicole KidmanWon an Oscar in 2002 for having featured this feature, adapting a novel of the same name.

Virginia Woolf inHours

Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours
Paramount Pictures

The actor disappeared in his role as a copy of difficulty ofMs. Dakoway, making the appointment of a prosthetic nose to look more like it.

3
Charlize Theron like ...

Charlize Theron
Shutterstock / Everett Collection

The year after Kidman brought home his price from the Academy,Charlize TheronGagné for having featured a biopic of an infamous climatic.

Wuorno Aileen inMonster

Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster
Newmarket movies

It was not only physical transformation (which included a large amount of makeup and prosthetic teeth) that have been criticized. Finish turon asWuorno Aileenremains one of theMost acclaimed film performances Never.

And Megyn Kelly inBomb

Charlize Theron in Bombshell
Lionsgate

Then in 2019, Theron disappeared in the role of anchorMegyn KellyinBomb, the chronicle of the scandal of fault of fox news. HuffPost reports that the movieWinning makeup artist of the Oscar,Kazu Hiro, "Taken a THERON head and 3D sweeper and then studied Kelly and Theron's images and movies to learn their key features and differences, to map exactly the prostheses of his team and how they would have to use them." Intricate stuff.

4
Eddie Murphy as ...

Eddie Murphy
Shutterstock / Tinseltown

Get out ofSaturday Night Live,Eddie Murphywas already a known chameleon. (And acted from the opposite causemany versions of itself Since.) But a set of transformations stands out.

Various characters inComing to America

Eddie Murphy in Coming to America
Paramount Pictures

Murphy plays three other characters from the comedy of 1988Coming to AmericaOutside the head, Prince Akeem. With the help of some serious hair and makeup, he also plays a singer of soul, an owner of Barbershop and a Jewish grandfather.

5
Steve Carell as ...

Steve Carell
Photo -Flash / Shutterstock agency

After playing Michael Scott onOfficeFor years, viewers thought they had hadSteve Carellattack. But his dramatic tower in a shocking real life story has changed it.

John du Pont inFoxcatcher

Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in Foxcatcher
Sony Pictures Classics

The comedian gave a prosthetic nose and another makeup to playJohn du Pont, the eccentric millionaire with a deadly obsession with the fight in 2014Foxcatcher.

6
Rooney mara like ...

Rooney Mara
Shutterstock / Kathy Hutchins

Rooney Mara Was always an upcoming actor when she was launched in the 2011 US adaptation of this best-selling Swedish thriller series.

Lisbeth Salander inDragon tattoo girl

Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Columbia Tristar

Turn into a vigilant hacker,Mara rasa his head, bleached his eyebrows and had several actual body piercings.

7
Claire Foy Like ...

Claire Foy
Matteo Chinellato / Shutterstock

After playingQueen Elizabeth IIFor two seasons, thecrownStarClear was no stranger to change his appearance for a role.

Lisbeth Salander inThe girl in the web of spider

Claire Foy in The Girl in the Spider's Web
Sony Free Images

And she did it again for the same reason as Mara. Foy resumed the role (and tattoos) of Salander for the most recent film of the series,The girl in the web of spider.

RELATED:Mark Wahlberg seems unrecognizable after shaving his head.

8
Oscar Isaac as ...

Oscar Isaac
Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock

Oscar Isaacdid not have to do a lot more than slipping into a flying suit to play hisStars warsCharacter, Poe Dameron. But the antagonization of the X-men was a different story.

Apocalypse inX-Men: Apocalypse

Oscar Isaac in X-Men: Apocalypse
Fox of the twentieth century

Isaac was hidden under Mastic and painted blue for hisX-Men: Apocalypsescoundrel. And it was not particularly worth it. Orcritics, nor fans Had a lot of good things to say about this chapter of the franchise.

9
Rebecca Romijn as ...

Rebecca Romijn
Shutterstock / S_Bukley

The model and the actor look nothing like her in these superhero films.

Mystical in theX Menfranchise

Rebecca Romijn as Mystique in X2
Fox of the twentieth century

Romijn has endured nine hours of makeup every day to become the mutant of change of shape in mystiqueX Men(2000),X2: X-Men(2003) andX-Men: the final confrontation(2006). WhenJennifer Lawrence has resumed the role in the newX-movies, she succeeded in producers to let speak in herwears a suit Instead of goop books blue body when the first suite wrapped around.

And for more fun Hollywood content directly in your inbox,Sign up for our daily newsletter.

10
Heath Ledger as ...

Heath Ledger
Shutterstock / Everett Collection

In one of its final roles, the endHeath Ledgergave a performance that earned him a posthumous oscar.

The JokerThe black Knight

Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight
Warner Bros. Pictures

With him give a prosthetic smile smile of the bad Batman, plus some freaky, on the agglutinated makeup of circus and a work of green acid dye, entirely inhabited the joker in 2008 ofThe black Knight.

11
Tilda Swinton as ...

Tilda Swinton
DFREE / SHUTTERSTOCK

Another known artist to be without fear in a makeup chair,Tilda Swinton is unrecognizable on the screen most often.

Various characters inSuspicion

Tilda Swinton as Dr. Klemperer in Suspiria
Amazon Studios

We could have just chosen his minister Snaggle to Tents MasonSnowpierceror his death croque in AlbinoThe Dead Do Not Die.But inSuspicion, The remake 2018 of the Italian classical horror film, Swinton plays Madame Blanc, the choreographer of a fantasy dance academy; Dr. Klemper, an elderly psychologist, male; And ... Well, we do not spoil the last for you if you have not seen it yet. Fun: In credits, Klemper is credited to a fictitious actor named "Lutz Ebersdorf. »

12
Michael Keaton as ...

Michael Keaton
Shutterstock / Everett Collection

Before putting on the Batsuit forTim Burton 1989 film,Michael KeatonCollected with the director on another project, playing a much more exuberant character.

Beholder inBeetlejuice

Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice
Warner Bros. Pictures

In an interview with Yahoo the 30th anniversary of the movie 1988,makeup artistveill revealed that Keaton's rotation in the ghost most involved in the foam to put his hair and shaping the fake lips in a broken nose. "Michael said," You know, I really want to look quite like me, in three dimensions, "Neill recalled. And that, they certainly have reached.

13
Cotillard Marion as ...

Marion Cotillard
Shutterstock / FeatureFlash Photo Agency

Another actor on this list that took an Oscar home for his troubles,Marion Cotillard won the prize in 2008.

Edith PiafLife in pink

Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Distribution film icon

To play the legendary and the distinguished French singer research,Cotillard shaved his eyebrows, Shaved his hair root, and five hours by makeup sitting before filming.

14
Margot Robbie as ...

Margot Robbie
Shutterstock / FeatureFlash Photo Agency

Like theron and swinton,Margot Robbie is proven to be a chameleon to more than one title.

Queen Elizabeth IMarie, Queen of Scotland

Margot Robbie in Mary Queen of Scots
Focus Features

As the queen grows up in the movie, Robbie becomes further away. In addition to make up of the ghostly white face and a bright red wig, the actor also had to wear many cicars of prostheses on his face to represent the marks left byA fight with smallpox.

And Tonya Harding inI, Tonya

Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
Neon

This film about the dishonored artistic skaterHarding Tonyawas not a big budget case. Without a ton of time to lose, makeup artistDeborah The Mia Denaversmall stuff used asManipulate Robbie eyelids With CIL glue to make him look more like the real deal.

15
Bill Skarsgård like ...

Bill Skarsgard
Shutterstock / GA Fullner

The chiseled face of the Swedish actor (brother ofAlexander and son ofStellan) Proven to be the perfect canvas for a nightmare that does notStephen King could dream.

Pennywise inThisandIt chapter two

Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise in It
Warner Bros. Pictures

In 2017Thisand 2018It chapter two,Bill SkarsgårdPlay a malefic entity that terrorizes a city over the centuries in the form of a scary clown with sharp teeth. He saidGq that the process ofPennywise took two and a half hours, but also that he won the role in part because he can twist his face in an evil smiles alone.

16
Idris Elba in ...

Idris Elba
Shutterstock / Denis Makarenko

LutherStarIdris Elbarocks too a work of hair and the important makeup that itsThorcharacter, heimdall, but at least you can say he is him.

Krall inBeyond Star Trek

Idris Elba as Krall in Star Trek Beyond
Paramount Pictures

Be honest - you would never know that theBeyond Star Treknaughty was Stringer Bell ofthreadUnless the credits you told you. According to the makeup artistJoel HarlowThe comments of the opposite,The Krall look has been partly inspired by marine life and lizards, although he also "a little klingon" in him.

17
Cate Blanchett as ...

Cate Blanchett
Shutterstock / Magicinfoto

Cate Blanchettloves casual low-key cameo (see: it hid completely by a hazmat suit inFuzz), but this transformation takes the cake.

Bob Dylan inI am not here

Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I'm Not There
Weinstein

Blanchett joined five other actors playingBob Dylanin 2007I am not here, and was the only woman to embody the musician.

18
Colin Farrell as ...

Colin Farrell
Shutterstock / FeatureFlash Photo Agency

After the Irish actorHas been announced, the fans began to expect a visual grip on this cartoon character that would be far from the norm.

... Oswald Cobblepot inThe Batman

Colin Farrell in The Batman
YouTube / Warner Bros. Pictures

But the firstteaser forThe Batmandisperses all that. In fact, it is a process of elimination itself to understand our Farrell is in the trailer. The details have not started the way it has been transformed into a penguin, but in this Get Road, we will certainly not recognize it to walk in the street.


Dr. Faisci warns this autumn, America could be in "not a good place"
Dr. Faisci warns this autumn, America could be in "not a good place"
It's the worst place to sit in a restaurant right now, studied
It's the worst place to sit in a restaurant right now, studied
The best free-selling medicine to take for your side effects of vaccine, say doctors
The best free-selling medicine to take for your side effects of vaccine, say doctors