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Friday, May 29, 2009 at 8:43PM No More Weight Loss Extremes for Christian Bale
It looks like we won't see another pendulum swing for Christian Bale's weight anytime in the future. The actor famously dropped over 60 pounds for The Machinist - walking around at over six feet tall and weighing a mere 120 pounds - and then immediately packed on close to 85 pounds for Batman Begins, but now he admits he's proven he can do it and probably won't be tempted to again.
"I know that I can now, so there would need to be a certain gimmick if I was to do that all over again. But I do like, very much, the notion of seeing how far you can push yourself so I'm very happy that I did that. Everybody told me that I was risking my health the first time around, so doing it twice? I'm probably being an idiot."The secret for the Machinist weight loss was a steady diet of a can of tuna and an apple a day for several months, but now Bale would be happy to take a physical transformation to another extreme. "Hey, listen. It sounds like so much more fun, getting to sit down with a big bowl of pasta and beer and wine, that sounds so good," he said. "Maybe we could do that if we do another Terminator - we could have a rotund John Connor!" Well, if nothing else, Connor might develop a personality for the sequel that way. Bale mentioned the word "gimmick" and I don't know if it's that so much as it is just part of the job that comes up rarely. Raging Bull, The Machinist, Cast Away - these are the sorts of roles where actors or actresses really need to put their bodies through all of that. It's the reporting of it that gets out of control, like a baseball announcer too consumed with stats. So Charlize Theron went up a couple sizes for Monster and Clooney got fat for Syriana. It's really not that big a deal unless you do what Bale did in about an 18-month stint. It's no different that getting in ridiculous condition for an action movie or spending weeks learning gun techniques. Just part of the gig. But as far as the weight loss stuff goes, Bale is the unquestioned king. Probably shaved about five years off his life, but...
Reader Comments (13)
good, cause I'm not interested in seeing it...
The weight loss for The Machinist impresses me less than the muscle gain for Batman Begins.
To start from scratch and build that much muscle shows that he is fortunate in the metabolism department.
Also, the body actually copes better with starvation that with obesity so, I think Bale will be fine.
More to the point is Bale's acting skills which seem to be regressing. He comes across as ever more uptight for each movie.
Also his behaviour on set and during family reunions seems to reveal a certain amount of uptightedness.
Yeah, to go from 120 to a reported 210 or so in a matter of just a few months is pretty astonishing.
Now it seems like he's starving himself again, however... He's one of my absolute favorites, and his capability to gain and lose weight like this impresses me in a way. But I don't think it's completely sane and I hope he won't kill himself in the process. :-|
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Wow, i wonder what he eat and what his work out routine was, amazing amount of weight he put on.
wonder what he ate.