June 4, 2002
The Mirror
Mission: Pile on the pounds
by Scott Hussey

Doug's Role of Fat

HEAVY EVENTS: By the magic of computers we've altered this picture of Dougray at Markinch Highland Games to show how he'll look when he bulks up; BIG BREAK: Dougray starred in Mission: Impossible 2 with Tom Cruise;; BIG IN WALES: Poet Dylan Thomas; WEIGHTWATCHER: The normal slimline Dougray

MOVIE star Dougray Scott has been given a new Mission - to pile on three stones for his latest film role.

The lean Scots actor faces going from hunk to chunk by going on a massive food binge to play roly poly Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Dougray, 36, is now under strict instructions to launch into a feeding frenzy before filming starts later this year just months after he lost weight for a role.

The Mission: Impossible 2 star had just got back to his normal weight of 12 stones after losing two stones to play a leukemia victim in the sequel to The Talented Mr Ripley, Ripley's Game.

But now he must weigh in to a high-fat diet. Dougray from Glenrothes, Fife, said: "You name it, cakes, burgers, biscuits, I'm going to eat it."

The star, who also had to diet to play a code-breaking mathematician in Enigma, said that after playing Dylan Thomas he would choose parts carefully.

He said: "My weight has yo-yoed after the past few years.

"For Mission Impossible: 2, I spent hours in the gym and then I went on a cabbage diet to lose weight. After getting back to normal, I had to lose two stones for Ripley's Game.

"Now I need to put on weight to play Thomas - he was a big lad.

"I must learn to pick parts where I can be my normal weight."

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