Who: Tom Hanks for "Philadelphia" and "Castaway"
Total Lost: 26 and 50 pounds respectively
How? For "Castaway," Hanks had to gain 40 pounds and then lose 50 pounds over a whole year. He said, "The hardest thing was the time, I wish I could have just taken a pill and lost all the weight but the reality was that I had to start in October knowing that we were going to go back in February. The idea of looking at four months of constant vigilance as far as what I ate, as well as two hours a day in the gym doing nothing but a monotonous kind of work-out—that was formidable. You have to power yourself through it almost by some sort of meditation trickery. It's not glamorous."
We Like Him Better When: Regular style. But more accurately, during the Meg Ryan movie era.
Total Lost: 26 and 50 pounds respectively
How? For "Castaway," Hanks had to gain 40 pounds and then lose 50 pounds over a whole year. He said, "The hardest thing was the time, I wish I could have just taken a pill and lost all the weight but the reality was that I had to start in October knowing that we were going to go back in February. The idea of looking at four months of constant vigilance as far as what I ate, as well as two hours a day in the gym doing nothing but a monotonous kind of work-out—that was formidable. You have to power yourself through it almost by some sort of meditation trickery. It's not glamorous."
We Like Him Better When: Regular style. But more accurately, during the Meg Ryan movie era.
