Vince Vaughn loved menacing new look for Brawl in Cell Block 99

Vince Vaughn is hoping his hardcore new look as a prison villain in Brawl In Cell Block 99 creeps fans out, because he went all out to look like a bad guy.
The Wedding Crashers star piled on the pounds and shaved his head to play an incarcerated drug runner in the film.
He also took on a southern accent and had a large crucifix temporarily tattooed on the back of his skull.
The actor tells Press Association he hit the gym to pile on muscle mass to look like a fearsome guy.
“I had to lift in a way where I got stronger, as a guy who works and is blue collar,” he says. “So I sort of lifted for strength. I had wrestled competitively when I was younger and I had boxed on and off in my life, so I just started to lift a little bit for strength and then I began to box again and just get comfortable with movements and doing things.
“I had boxed since I was 16 so I was able to get comfortable with those movements so that when I came in physically I was in the right shape.”
And he turned to a few southern relatives to perfect his drawl, adding, “I’m comfortable in that environment, but I did work with a dialect coach and just made sure we were very prepared.”
In the film, Vaughn plays a tough guy forced to fight for the safety of his family from behind bars, and he credits director S. Craig Zahler, the man behind cult movie Bone Tomahawk, for helping him get into character.
“Craig had such great taste and such specifics,” he explains. “He wrote a whole bio for the back story of the character so I leaned on him tremendously, everything from fighting and responding and coming up with unique specifics for this character for how he responded to things, to character moments…
“When you’re doing something like this the fight scenes are so choreographed, they are so complex, the emotional demands are high, that you are really just in it and invested in it.”
Vaughn and Zahler shot the film in just 25 days.