The Most Impressive Prosthetic Transformations For Hollywood's Biggest Movies

From Leonardo DiCaprio To J. Edgar Hoover

DiCaprio wore a lot of plastic body parts, teeth, eye contacts, a skull cap, and a wig to play J. Edgar Hoover in the biographical drama. He remained in the makeup chair for six to seven hours while they put them on.

The makeup artists explained that DiCaprio had to learn how to make his facial emotions more dramatic because it was hard to act with so many layers on his face. He also wore two sets of colored contacts, one brown and one yellow, to make his eyes look older.

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