
Radcliffe himself downplays what he went through.
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But it was all part of the plan-it was all to do with how to authentically show what he went through and what he survived and what he was like at the end of that journey,” says McLean. It was really built into the schedule in how to work out how to do those kinds of things, because it becomes a bit of a scheduling nightmare if you’re doing that. You’re eating a chicken breast a day or very limited food in order to get to that physical state. Even though it was done under supervision, you’re still basically starving. “He devised a healthy way to do it with his trainers in terms of his diet, but it was pretty severe. Basically, Daniel said, ‘If we do it, I want to find a way to do a weight loss within the shooting schedule so that when I get to that point we can show what he was really going through and look like when you haven’t eaten for 20 days.’ “We didn’t want it to feel kind of phony or fake. “We talked about that in our first conversation,” Mclean says to me. To do the role properly, Radcliffe would have to go through a similar transformation-and near-starve to do it. By the end, he was a shell of the man he was. In the jungle in 1981, Yossi became separated from his friends, lost for three weeks on his own with little to eat. The two of them hashed out the most difficult thing the role would require. I think we connected on how much we loved the story and how much we wanted to tell it.” The challenge, the intensity of what he goes through and emotionally the kind of range the actor would need to display to pull it off. “I got on the phone with Daniel, we talked about the story and we were both excited about the same things. From their first call, they were on the same page.
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Why it seems to have closed for business. I have wondered about the Bermuda Triangle.

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