He further explained the method to his madness. "I ate a can of tuna fish a day," he explained. "I did it in the most unhealthy way possible...I didn't consult with a doctor or anything. We had said maybe we should lose, like, 10 pounds, and I just kept going and going, and by the end of the movie, I was just [moving] like a snail!"
Texas Rising, which will air on the History Channel, is a new historical drama series about the Texas revolution against Mexico in the 1830s. The P.S. I Love You actor plays a character named Erastus "Deaf" Smith.
Dramatic weight loss for a role isn't uncommon in Hollywood. Matthew McConaughey shed some serious pounds for Dallas Buyers Club and Anne Hathaway lived on two squares of oatmeal paste a day to drop 25 pounds for Les Misérables. Jake Gyllenhaal once opened up to E! News about his weight loss plan for Nightcrawler and dished that his mom became really concerned.
