Beside Steve Carell's remarkable physical transformations for his role in director Bennett Miller‘s new drama Foxcatcher, it seems that his co-stars Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo have drastically altered their physiques as well.
Prior to its world premiere at AFI Fest on November 8th, Sony Pictures Classics released two new photos from the feature.
Tatum and Ruffalo plays two brothers and Olympic wrestling champions, while Carell portrays the eccentric and dangerous millionaire John du Pont.
Miller recently spoke about Carell's role:
We just had our first test (screening), and not everybody recognized Steve. He is aged [for the film], and his face is changed, and his physicality changed. If I say I'm going to make a movie about a guy who's a schizophrenic murderer, there are probably a dozen actors who would immediately appear on anybody's casting list. And Steve would not be on any of those lists. And that's a good thing. Because it's unexpected… John DuPont was a character who nobody thought was capable of doing something as horrible as he did. And I did not want to cast somebody who would feel dangerous in that way.
Also starring Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Michael Hall, Foxcatcher arrives on December 20th, 2013, just before Christmas.
Check out the stills and film synopsis from AFI Fest's announcement below.
FOXCATCHER, a psychological drama directed by Academy Award® nominee Bennett Miller (MONEYBALL) and starring Golden Globe® winner Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Academy Award®nominee Mark Ruffalo, Academy Award® winner Vanessa Redgrave and Sienna Miller, will have its World Premiere on Friday, November 8 as the Opening Weekend Gala. The film was written by E. Max Frye and Academy Award® nominee Dan Futterman. FOXCATCHER tells the story of Olympic Gold Medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Tatum), who sees a way out from the shadow of his more celebrated wrestling brother Dave (Ruffalo) and a life of poverty when he is summoned by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont (Carell) to move onto his estate and train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Desperate to gain the respect of his disapproving mother, du Pont begins “coaching” a world-class athletic team and, in the process, lures Mark into dangerous habits, breaks his confidence and drives him into a self-destructive spiral. Based on actual events, FOXCATCHER is a gripping and profoundly American story of fragile men who pinned their hopes for love and redemption on a desperate obsession for greatness that was to end in tragedy.
