{"id":42120,"date":"2011-02-03T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T17:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=42120"},"modified":"2011-02-03T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:52:41","slug":"javier-bardem-lost-weight-while-shooting-biutiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/javier-bardem-lost-weight-while-shooting-biutiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Javier Bardem Lost Weight while Shooting Biutiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Biutiful-Javier-Bardem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42121\" title=\"Biutiful-Javier-Bardem\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Biutiful-Javier-Bardem.jpg\" alt=\"Javier Bardem\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Actor Javier Bardem already won the Palm d&#8217;Or at Cannes for his leading role in Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu&#8217;s film Biutiful, and he&#8217;s poised to take that title again on Oscar night. To play the troubled Uxbal, Bardem not only sunk himself into the character&#8217;s physiological state, but also underwent a dramatic physical transformation.<\/p>\n<p>As a man struggling with <strong><a title=\"Prevent Cancer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/new-way-to-prevent-cancer\/\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a><\/strong>, Bardem lost a significant about of weight during the film&#8217;s grueling five-month shoot. The film was shot in chronological order, which made this process a little easier. &#8220;There&#8217;s something big\u2014the disease\u2014going on, and the effect that it has on the mind, the body, the soul, but also little details of behavior that have to do with the chronological order of being affected by [the disease]. It&#8217;s a great luxury for any actor, but I couldn&#8217;t imagine doing this any other way,&#8221; said Bardem.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;I just cut his diet\u2014just locked him in his trailer, with one spoon of <strong><a title=\"sugar content of food\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/how-much-sugar-is-in-your-food-1\/the-sugar-content-of-food\/\" target=\"_self\">sugar<\/a><\/strong> a day, that\u2019s it,&#8221; joked I\u00f1\u00e1rritu of Bardem&#8217;s transformation. However, Bardem says it was not that simple. Creating such an intense character contributed to his weight loss. &#8220;It was a lot of diet, a lot of exercise, but also a lot of shooting that really makes you feel like losing weight,&#8221; said Bardem.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"Javier Bardem Biutiful\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tribecafilm.com\/news-features\/features\/Gonzalez_Inarritu_Bardem_Biutiful.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tribecafilm.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bon Jovi Skips the Gym and Dies Yoga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/bon-jovi-skips-the-gym-and-does-yoga\/\" target=\"_self\">Bon Jovi Skips the Gym and Dies Yoga<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Kevin James Slims down to &quot;Be There&quot; for His Family\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/kevin-james-slims-down-to-be-there-for-his-family\/\" target=\"_self\">Kevin James Slims down to &#8220;Be There&#8221; for His Family<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Zac Efron's ZEN Diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/zac-efrons-zen-diet\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nZac Efron&#8217;s ZEN Diet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Javier Bardem already won the Palm d&#8217;Or at Cannes for his leading role in Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu&#8217;s film Biutiful, and he&#8217;s poised to take that title again on Oscar night. To play the troubled Uxbal, Bardem not only sunk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/javier-bardem-lost-weight-while-shooting-biutiful\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[26,7556],"class_list":["post-42120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-celebrities","tag-javier-bardem"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42135,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42120\/revisions\/42135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}