As Winston Churchill's Gary Oldman played: nicotine poisoning and weight problems

Some modern actors cause sincere admiration for their selfless work on the roles! On what only do not go artists on the set, in order to maximally fully get used to the image ...

Recently it became known that the work on the film "Darkest Hour" almost cost Gary Oldman health. In this picture, Joe Wright was entrusted with the role of Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Great Britain in the Second World War. It turned out that the famous actor suffered from poisoning with nicotine, because he had to constantly smoke with a cigar in the frame.

That's how the 59-year-old actor himself recalls this "test of strength":

"I had to" smoke "constantly. This is not surprising, because Churchill with a cigar just did not part. Of course, I tried to protest, but nothing came of it. Work in the frame looked like this: I had to smoke a cigar, did a couple of puffs. At this time, several takes were taken. Then the assistant director ran up to me and gave me a new, lighted cigar. And so on 10-12 takes of each scene. "

For all the time working on the film Oldman had to skull about four hundred (!!!) cigars. The result did not take long to wait - the actor had to recover for a while and recover from the effects of nicotine intoxication.

Play the fat man

But this is not all the difficulties that the actor had to face in the process of reincarnation in the eminent compatriot. The fact is that Oldman is much thinner than his character. Therefore, before the filming began, the director asked him to dial 30 kilograms to approach the dimensions of the impressive British premier.

To this Gary answered with a resolute "No!":

"I'm about to trade the seventh decade. If I agreed to recover for 30 kg, the rest of my days would have spent in disembodied efforts to lose weight. Such mockery of my body as a result would have a bad effect on health. But the way out was found and the dressers with make-up artists helped me to reincarnate in Churchill with the help of a make-up and a "fat man's suit".

We can assume that in fact the actor was not so much afraid of losing his health as the location of his young wife, Giselle Schmidt, with whom he formalized the relationship a few months ago.

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Note that this is the fifth official marriage of a cinematographer. In due time, by the way, his second wife was visited by Uma Thurman, although their union lasted only 2 years and fell apart because of the actor's craving for alcohol.