12 Hollywood Stars That Have Changed Significantly for the Role

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Natalie Portman

In preparation for the film «Black Swan», the actress experienced a monstrous moral and physical exhaustion. “I almost died,” the actress recalls. For this role, which later won Portman an Oscar, the already thin actress lost 9 kg. She sat on a carrot-almond diet and trained for 8 hours a day, exhausted herself in all respects.

Color Photos of London During the Second World War

The attacks of the German Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II brought a lot of fatal destruction and claimed more than one hundred lives. Many cities suffered from German “attacks”, but sometimes it seems that London has suffered the most: more than a million buildings were completely destroyed, more than 20,000 civilians were killed, but the Wehrmacht did not achieve its main goal, because the British’s strong spirit was not to break just ...

Life in the Cemetery: 13 photos

Manila is the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city on the island of Luzon. This city makes the most unpleasant first impression and the more you delve into its history and atmosphere, the more terrible it becomes. One of the most frightening places in Manila is the city cemetery, in the territory of which hundreds of living people settled. It is about this place that will be discussed in this collection ...

8 Deaths of Actors on the Set

It is generally accepted that the profession of an actor is prestige, success and unheard of popularity. But sometimes, in addition to crowds of fans and lots of money, actors have to face dangerous situations that can overtake them right on the set. Well, if they get off with a couple of abrasions and a fright, but the stories of the cinema are known and such cases when the actors did not come out of the set alive ...

The 7 Worst Epidemics in Human History

The new year 2020 began with the advent of a new virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan. To date, coronavirus has claimed about 100 lives and continues to test people for strength. The history of mankind has repeatedly known extremely dangerous viruses and epidemics, which claimed millions of lives, wreaking havoc on the trail of panic and chaos. But even the worst of all infections, people managed to win and live on ... exactly until the next outbreak of some mutated flu.