Bollywood Actors Embrace Extreme Methods for Roles

Some movie stars in India are doing very extreme things to become their characters.

For example, one actor became a vegetarian and practiced silence to play a calm king.

Another actor changed his body a lot, gaining and losing lots of weight, and learning new skills like sword fighting.

Some actors also change how they act and feel inside, like one who stayed alone to understand a crazy character.

Sometimes, directors even ask actors to do things like go hungry to show that feeling on screen.

These actors believe these tough steps help them play their parts much better and make the audience believe they are the characters.