Shailene Woodley Nearly Starved While Making Her New Movie
by EG
While Shailene Woodley was preparing for the lost-at-sea drama Adrift, she had to go through a great deal of physical hardship in order to get into character. That hardship included basically not eating for weeks at a time. Read on for details about how she survived.
Via Us Weekly.
Now that’s commitment! Shailene Woodley is no stranger to preparing for major roles in some of Hollywood’s biggest films, but her prep for her part in the new film Adrift may have been the toughest yet.
The 26-year-old actress dished on getting ready to play real-life yachtswoman Tami Oldham Ashcraft, who was stranded at sea after battling rough storms, including the brutal diet she had to eat.
“For the last two weeks I had a can of salmon, some steamed broccoli and two egg yolks every day — 350 calories. It was f—king miserable,” she told The Times in an interview published on Thursday, June 27, about her physical transformation to look as though she had starved as Ashcraft had.
And it wasn’t always food she was ingesting. “I can’t sleep when I’m hungry,” she revealed. “So I would have a glass of wine to basically pass the f—k out.”
The film — which is based on a true story — follows Woodley’s character and her fiancé, Robert (Sam Claiflin), as they take off to sail from Tahiti to her hometown of San Diego before encountering one of the worst hurricanes ever recorded, Hurricane Raymond.
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