Leto's Weight Gain Nightmare....
Actor Jared Leto has vowed never to fatten-up for a movie role again, after he piled on 60 pounds (27.2 kilograms) to play John Lennon's killer - and ended up in a wheelchair.Leto is still suffering the side effects of "gorging and force-feeding" himself for the role of Mark Chapman in Chapter 27, and he fears he will never regain his once-fit physique.More than a year after the film debuted at January 2007's Sundance Film Festival, Leto says, "I'd never do it again; it definitely gave me some problems."I don't know if it was gout - but I had a definite problem with my feet.Towards the end of the shoot, one of the glaring issues was the pain I had with my feet. I couldn't walk for long distances; I had a wheelchair because it was so painful. My body was in shock from the amount of weight I gained."It took about a year to get back to a place that felt semi-normal. I don't know if I'll ever be back to the place I was physically".But the 36-year-old stands by his decision to gain so much weight - insisting it enabled him to capture the spirit of Chapman, who shot Lennon dead outside his New York apartment in 1980.Leto explains, "It was important to make that transformation because I thought his physical representation of himself was an indication of who he was.
And it changed everything about who I was - the way I walked , the way I talked, the way I felt about myself, the way people treated me.
"It was an interesting experience. It was interesting to see people reactions - particularly people I knew but hadn't seen in a while and who obviously thought I'd let myself go".
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