19 Actors Who Made Insane Physical Transformations For Their Movie Roles

2. Karen Gillian

To become Nebula in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Gillian sat through four hours and 15-minutes of makeup every day of filming. She had to shave her head for the role and wear 22-millimeter [read: huge] contact lenses. On top of all that, her character wore a skintight costume, so she also had to train in the gym and eat like an athlete to get in shape for the role. For a woman who doesn’t normally workout, hitting the weights four times a week was a big change. When she wasn’t in the gym working out, producers had her learning martial arts for fighting sequences.



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