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Startling photos show Christian Bale’s 45kg weight fluctuations. HE’S packed on slabs of muscle, starved himself until skeletal and binged on burgers to stack on fat — as these startling, career-spanning photos show. Claire Spellberg. 2 min read. October 4, 2018 - 2:06PM.
Nov 15, 2019 · Christian Bale is a master at transformation—he's gained and lost weight for multiple movie roles. Here's a list of his most intense physical transformations.
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It all started when Christian Bale played Laurie in Little Women, where he was 180 pounds. When it was time to play Patrick Bateman, Bale gained muscle, and his weight went up to 190. The first drastic Christian Bale body transformation came in 2004 with The Machinist, where he dropped to 120 pounds – and by the end of filming, he only had six mont...
Christian Bale has gained and lost such a staggering amount of weight for his movie roles, but it's only responsible to question whether this is in any way healthy for him. The ultimate answer is no. and the reality is quite the opposite. While adding a notorious Christian Bale body transformationto any movie arguably makes his performance more bel...
The fascination with Christian Bale's weight gains and losses for his movie roles gets most of the attention, but that is one small aspect of the dedication that he puts into his acting. Though he seems to have given up on his weight fluctuations for roles, his recent movie Amsterdam proves he is still willing to go to some wild extremes to make hi...
The Christian Bale weight changes aren't the only time an actor or actress made considerable weight changes to fit into a role in a movie. One of the most recent examples came with Brendan Fraser, who didn't gain all the weight that his character in The Whale weighed (600 pounds). The production built him a 300-pound prosthetic suit and Fraser weig...
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- "American Psycho" (2000) Bale's claim to fame before the Batman trilogy, "American Psycho" was the first role that the actor transformed himself for. "His physical preparation was beyond what I expected," filmmaker Mary Harron told The Playlist.
- "The Machinist" (2004) Probably one of the scariest transformations in his career, Bale lost a ton of weight for his role in The "Machinist". In fact, according to Men's Health, the actor shed 60 pounds eating less than 200 calories a day.
- "Batman Begins" (2005) How did Bale go from super skinny in 2004 to the muscular Batman we saw on screen in "Batman Begins"? According to Insider, the actor had to gain 100 pounds after "The Machinist" was over to get ready for his role as Gotham's hero.
- "American Hustle" (2013) Talk about gaining weight– Bale told USA Today that he went from 185 to 228 pounds for his role in "American Hustle". That's 43 pounds!
Dec 9, 2014 · Losing 63 lbs. for a role seemed like a hard weight cut for Bale, so he just scaled back his aspirations for his next emaciated performance by only dropping 55 lbs.
Nov 8, 2019 · Christian Bale had over 40 pounds to lose in order to fit into the small cars used in his new film 'Ford vs. Ferrari.' Here's how he did it.
Aug 15, 2018 · Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images. Some actors train endlessly to pull off their own death-defying stunts. Others undergo body transformations. Christian Bale is in that latter camp, a guy...
