A Gold Medal for Matthew McConaughey
Unlike his well-known weight loss for Dallas Buyers Club, which he credited with helping him land the job, McConaughey actually gained weight for this one. In order to play Kenny Wells in Gold, the normally athletic actor put on 47 pounds. It was the first time he’d ever had to gain weight for a job without increasing his muscle mass, so he probably enjoyed the freedom to indulge in anything he pleased for a full six months. Since he ate a lot of cheeseburgers and drank a lot of beer, gaining weight was considerably simpler for McConaughey. He stopped going to the gym and refused to do any kind of exercise, not even stair climbing. His children enjoyed the fact that dad would oblige their culinary requests without question.