Actors going through wild body transformations has, love it or hate it, become an easy way to get eyes on a new film.
Whether it be Christian Bale losing over 60 pounds for The Machinist or Kumail Nanjiani suddenly becoming absolutely ripped for The Eternals, celebrities totally changing their look for a role can be a sure fire way to start some viral buzz. Like clockwork, this has happened once again, but it isn’t for any crazy weight loss or gain, or even someone suddenly becoming ripped for an MCU or boxing movie.
Apple Movies announced the film Outcome today (4 February), which will star Keanu Reeves, Matt Bomer, and Cameron Diaz. It will also feature an A-list star that is utterly unrecognisable for most fans.
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Believe it or not, the actor opposite Keanu is actually Jonah Hill.
Hill’s transformation comes for the most part in the form of his surprising beard and bald head combo which has him evoking Steve Jobs in the new role. He is set to also direct the film, a dark comedy starring Keanu as ‘Reef Hawk’, a Hollywood star who is being blackmailed with a mysterious video. Reef’s crisis lawyer, Ira, is played by Hill, and the comedy sees him contacting anyone he could have possibly wronged and make amends with them to figure out who is blackmailing him.
This is not the actor’s first time directing, or his first time going through a major body transformation.
He previously directed Mid90s, a coming-of-age skater film which received a positive reception, and a slightly bizarre documentary film Stutz in which he interviewed his own therapist.
Throughout his time acting though, he has gone through a number of body transformations and spoken openly about how comments and jokes about his weight effected his mental health when he was younger.
In a 2018 appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show, he spoke about his fluctuating weight, saying: “I became famous in my late teens and then spent most of my young adult life listening to people say that I was fat and gross and unattractive.
“It took a long time ― honestly, until right now ― for me to come out as the person, artist, mind, what I represent, how I feel, how I’d like to be spoken to, how I speak to the world.
“I think everybody has a version of themselves ― I call it a snapshot ― at some point in [their] life of the person [they’re] trying to hide from the world.
“Even if you get success or grow up or become good-looking or whatever ... you kind of carry some part of that with you.
“For me, it’s definitely being like this 14-year-old kid, being overweight, wanting to fit in with these skaters and hip-hop kids, and just feeling lonely and maybe not understanding my own worth.”
Hill has also spoken about Outcome, saying that the film is a ‘metaphor for what we all go through living on social media’. He went on to add: “Social media has made us obsessed what people we don’t know think of us, instead of caring about what the people who know us best think of us.”
Outcome will release on Apple TV+ on April 10 worldwide.
Topics: Celebrity, Film, Jonah Hill, Keanu Reeves, TV and Film, Entertainment, Apple
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