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- For the role, D'Onofrio was required to put on a substantial amount of weight - 70lb to be precise - leaving him weighing 20 stone.
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Apr 19, 2023 · For the role, D'Onofrio was required to put on a substantial amount of weight - 70lb to be precise - leaving him weighing 20 stone. No actor has ever beaten him, meaning the star holds the world record for the most weight gained for a film role.
TIL that the most weight gained for a role was 70 lbs (32 kg), which Vincent D'Onofrio did for Pvt. Leonard Lawrence in "Full Metal Jacket." The role was initially written as a "skinny ignorant redneck," but director Stanley Kubrick felt the character would have more impact if he was big and clumsy. : r/todayilearned.
Vincent D'Onofrio (USA) gained 31.75 kg (70 lb) for his role as Private Leonard ‘Gomer Pyle’ Lawrence in Stanley Kubrick's <EM> Full Metal Jacket</EM> (US 1987)
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In preparation for Full Metal Jacket, Vincent D’Onofrio broke the record for most weight gained by an actor for a film role. The record was previously held by Robert De Niro, who gained 60 lbs to play boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. D’Onofrio gained 70 lbs to play Pvt. Pyle. It took him seven months to gain the weight and a further nine months t...
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When he heard about the auditions for Full Metal Jacketfrom Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio was a barely experienced actor working as a bouncer at a nightclub. He rented a video camera and found some army fatigues to shoot an audition tape for the role of Pvt. Pyle and sent it to Stanley Kubrick. He didn’t expect much to come from the audition, a...
Aug 9, 2021 · The pivotal role was won by D`Onofrio at a distance of thousands of miles; Kubrick cast him on the basis of several videotaped auditions and a taped interview that D`Onofrio mailed to the...
Mar 1, 2023 · To play Pvt. Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket, Vincent D’Onofrio had to gain 70 pounds. It took him seven months to put on the weight and another nine to lose it once filming had wrapped.
Jun 22, 2015 · In 1986, D'Onofrio took on the role often considered the defining moment in his acting career, as Pvt. Leonard Lawrence, an overweight and mentally unstable Marine recruit in the movie Full Metal Jacket. 24. D'Onofrio gained 70 lb for the role, bringing his weight to 280 lb. 25.