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Jennifer Connelly has always been a rather slim woman, but now she has lost another 25 pounds to star in a new film, Shelter, where Connelly plays a homeless woman.
The actress, who was directed in the movie by her husband Paul Bettany, said she did a lot of research for the role in order to understand how to play a drug addict.
“There was so much work to do about her (Hannah) and the circumstances of her life that I knew nothing about. I had a lot of practical research to do. Slowly, over months, I lost a lot of weight and ultimately lost about 25 pounds. I wanted to be quite comfortable with her and I had no experience of using needles, so I spent a lot of time working on that so I could be quite at ease; practising using the paraphernalia,”
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