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Yet tough as it must have been for Zellweger to have her body turned into a public battleground, the weight she gained to play Bridget as a reassuringly normal size 12 in the first film felt genuinely significant at the time.

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Tom Cruise is planning a significant weight gain to play a 20-stone American pilot who trafficked drugs and guns for the Medellín cartel in the 1980s-set biopic Mena, reports the New York Post.

Theron won an Oscar for her performance in "Monster," in which she wore prosthetics and gained weight to play Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute turned serial killer.

He trimmed down and gained muscle to play a US navy seal in 2012's Zero Dark Thirty, but put on 60 pounds to play a slovenly lawyer in 2013's Delivery Man, opposite Vince Vaughn.

It bought Digital Island, a struggling American Internet company, for $340m and promised to inject up to $700m more as part of a strategy to become a leading Internet-services firm.Sony, a Japanese electronics giant, gained allies to play alongside with against rivals, Nintendo and Microsoft, which is soon to launch its Xbox gaming system.

In an inverse from Hathaway, the "Lincoln" star gained weight to play Mary Todd Lincoln, and she stands toe-to-toe with presumed Best Actor winner Daniel Day-Lewis (as Lincoln) in a number of scenes.

The short week will make it difficult for him to gain clearance to play Sunday night against Green Bay.

You know she'd be horrified by that silly little Renée Zellweger, deliberately gaining weight to play her in the movies.

Boldin was scheduled to see a doctor Tuesday and hoped to gain clearance to play Sunday, when the Cardinals are at Carolina.

Gaither cashed in decades of favors with Florida's white politicians to gain permission to play the first-ever game between a white school and a black school in the South.

The studio is also said to be in final negotiations with Jim Carrey, center, who will gain weight to play the rotund Curly, and is pursuing Benicio Del Toro, bottom, ("Che") to play the irritable Moe.

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