I received a part in an indie film, and I am acting a young woman who has AIDs from drug use.

And I need to drop 20-30 lbs (or as skinny as possible) by early December. Production begins in October, so they are shooting me as normal, but then emaciated .

I don't want to do a fast, but it seems the only way to do it in such a short time.

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You could always try this approach ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD3deQmyRHw

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Originally posted by Mystique:
I received a part in an indie film, and I am acting a young woman who has AIDs from drug use.

And I need to drop 20-30 lbs (or as skinny as possible) by early December. Production begins in October, so they are shooting me as normal, but then emaciated .

I don't want to do a fast, but it seems the only way to do it in such a short time.

Don't emaciate yourself for an indy film. If they were paying you large sums of money, and it was absolutely necessary (there were camera shots that exposed your naked body) then you might consider doing something like that. And in a situation like that you'd have a team of people observing you making sure you didn't take it too far. But it's not even close to worth endangering your health (especially as young and beautiful as you are) for something like that. Not only that, but losing that much weight is going to have a negative effect on your energy levels and concentration which is far more important for a good film performance.

With that said, I admire your dedication to the truth of the role, and there is a lot of healthy work that you can do to achieve it. Look at videos/images of patients in the advances stages of AIDS. Observe their posture. Watch how the walk. Look for physical details (the more subtle the better) in their body and work on that.