10 celebs who lost massive weight for film roles – You won’t believe this! (With Pictures)

2. Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Via moviepilot.com

Matthew McConaughey has been a leading man in Hollywood for a number of years. He’s played big time characters since he broke out in the 1993 comedy, Dazed and Confused. Since then, he has been a big player in a variety of fun movies. But in 2013, McConaughey took a different kind of role. He portrayed a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the biopic Dallas Buyers Club. The film earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The surprise role was a passion project for the superstar who shed 40 pounds of his usually-muscular physique to accommodate the role. McConaughey was almost unrecognizable and killed it in the movie.