Jude Law says drinking "ten Coca-Colas a day" to gain weight was "amazing".
The actor stars in movie Dom Hemingway and gained almost 28lbs. to play the title role last summer.
Jude thoroughly enjoyed eating and drinking whatever he wanted in order to transform himself.
"[Drinking] ten Coca-Colas a day, [was] amazing!" Jude exclaimed to British newspaper The Telegraph. "Oh, it was a joyous role to take on. Because I am at a stage in my life where I’m panicking a bit. 'Ooh, am I going a bit bald' Am I getting a bit…' You can’t help doing that in your late 30s, can you' When you realise that you’re no longer the 21-year-old you used to be. So playing someone who was letting it all go was really liberating."
Since filming wrapped the 40-year-old has lost the excess weight and joked that his confidence was boosted as he started to look more like himself again.
"And actually, even better than that, now that I’ve lost the weight and my receding hairline isn’t quite as bad as we made it look for the part, I can look in the mirror and think, 'Oh, it’s not that bad! I’m still looking all right, actually!'" Jude laughed.
The British actor is known for his handsome appearance and has been cast as the stereotypical heartthrob in films such as The Holiday throughout his career.
Now he has started to age the star has won a wider variety of roles, so his changing appearance is something he has embraced.
"It’s funny… I don’t know whether I was in my own prison – or should I say constraint' Constraint is better," Jude explained. "Or whether that constraint was put on me by the film industry. But certainly, yes, in the last couple of years, I have felt a freedom, which has been very fulfilling."
Since turning 40 Jude has revaluated himself as a person. Just as he wants his career to move in a different direction now he's reached the milestone age, so he hopes to become a better man as he matures.
"It feels like a very real time to take stock and make changes for the right reasons," Jude confessed. "I've made an awful lot of decisions, deep down, about things I don’t want to repeat. I’ve thought about what I like and what I don’t like about myself and I’ve realised that there are sides of myself that only I can change."
