Damian Lewis to play crack-smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford in new movie
Actors often undergo intense physical transformations for a role—take Christian Bale, whose recent weight gain for a role as Dick Cheney is just the latest in a series of extreme weight fluctuations he’s experienced over the years. But even for a well-paid Hollywood actor, taking on the hard-partying lifestyle of ex-Toronto mayor Rob Ford—you remember, the one who was caught smoking crack on video while he was in office?—for a role may be too great of an ask. (Ford, as you may also recall, died very young of a rare form of cancer.)