Leto's Weight Gain Nightmare.

6 months ago 26th Mar 07:17

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.

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