Anyone who still associates British actor Jamie Bell with his breakout role as a young boy who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer will quickly forget all about “Billy Elliot” after seeing “Skin,” w…
Still, Bell insisted on taking it a step further by going “full Raging Bull” and packing on the pounds — 20, to be exact. “I just ate a bunch of s—,” he said of his meal plan. “Peanut butter and ice cream and whatever I wanted. But it was hard because we made this movie for literally no money. And it was exhausting because we shot so much material in a day that I was shedding the weight as we were filming.
Although “Skin” could be described as a true American horror story, the locals Bell encountered while filming in upstate New York hardly batted an eye, which perhaps suggests how desensitized people have become to hate groups. “We were living in a B,” recalled Bell. “I just want to say to anyone who visited last year, I am so sorry if your family came to that hotel hoping for a nice weekend and saw 20 white supremacists in the lobby waiting for their car to take them to set.
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