Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Actress Who Plays Kidnap Victim Natascha Kampusch, Reveals Dramatic Weight Loss

Method Acting Gone Too Far?

The actress playing Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has revealed her startling weight loss for the role.

Antonia Campbell-Hughes appeared on the red carpet at Wednesday's 'Frankenweenie' premiere looking shockingly thin.

Campbell-Hughes, who appeared in the 'Lead Balloon' TV series and 'The Other Side Of Sleep' is currently shooting '3096' - so named to signify the number of days Kampusch was held prisoner.

Scroll down for more pictures of Campbell-Hughes' shocking weight loss

Method actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes at the premiere of Frankenweenie on Wednesday

Kampusch was kidnapped at the age of 10 and kept captive in a dungeon by Wolfgang Priklopil for eight and a half years. She was starved and beaten throughout her ordeal.

Priklopil commited suicide shortly after Kampusch escaped in August 2006.

In June Campbell-Hughes told The Evening Standard: "The one thing that I have been adamant about is that I am playing a character in a script.

"It's not a biopic or a case study. But playing someone real, you feel you have to give a bit more. There was an understanding from the beginning that I would suffer as much as she did."

Natascha Kampusch was kept captive for more than eight years

Campbell-Hughes in 2009

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