Christian Bale Says He's 'Done' with Losing and Gaining Weight for Movie Roles

Few actors are as devoted to character transformation asChristian Bale, who has gained and lost incredible amounts of weight for many of his past roles. Butafter his latest transformation— losing 70 lbs. to go fromformer Vice President Dick Cheney inViceto racecar driver Ken Hill inFord v Ferrari— Bale said he’s “done.”“I keep saying I’m done with it. I really think I’m done with it, yeah,” the actor, 45,said onCBS This Morning, airing Nov. 10.Bale said in December thathe had “fun” gaining weightto play Cheney, and mostly just ate “a lot of pies” to do it. But it was much tougher to lose that weight to match Hill’s slim driver physique.“It was more fun gaining the weight than losing it,” he said.It may have been tough for Bale, but hisFord v Ferraricostar Matt Damon said that it wasfascinating to see it happen on set.Christian Bale (right) as Dick Cheney inVice.Annapurna Pictures; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic“I had a great time watching him,” Damon said onCBS This Morning. “He’s got an incredible monk-like discipline, like, when he had to lose … he went from Dick Cheney to this guy. So he had to lose 70 pounds.”Along with switching weights forViceandFord v Ferrari, Bale has famously changed up his diets for 2004’s The Machinist, when he got down to just 120 lbs., before gaining 70 lbs. back plus another 30 lbs. of muscle to play Batman.Nicolas Geller/Paramount Classics/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock;Bale also lost weight — and won an Academy Award — for his role as a heroin addict in 2010’sThe Fighter, beforeadding a potbelly for 2013’sAmerican Hustle. After that movie, Bale realized it was getting tougher to lose weight.“I thought I was going to lose the weight I gained for American Hustle. I said, two months, flat, that’ll do it. I was 185 and I went up to 228 for it. And I’m still working that off! It’s almost six months later,” he said in 2013. “Now, I know that when I was in my early twenties it would have been two months and that’s it.”

Few actors are as devoted to character transformation asChristian Bale, who has gained and lost incredible amounts of weight for many of his past roles. Butafter his latest transformation— losing 70 lbs. to go fromformer Vice President Dick Cheney inViceto racecar driver Ken Hill inFord v Ferrari— Bale said he’s “done.”

“I keep saying I’m done with it. I really think I’m done with it, yeah,” the actor, 45,said onCBS This Morning, airing Nov. 10.

Bale said in December thathe had “fun” gaining weightto play Cheney, and mostly just ate “a lot of pies” to do it. But it was much tougher to lose that weight to match Hill’s slim driver physique.

“It was more fun gaining the weight than losing it,” he said.

It may have been tough for Bale, but hisFord v Ferraricostar Matt Damon said that it wasfascinating to see it happen on set.

Christian Bale (right) as Dick Cheney inVice.Annapurna Pictures; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic

“I had a great time watching him,” Damon said onCBS This Morning. “He’s got an incredible monk-like discipline, like, when he had to lose … he went from Dick Cheney to this guy. So he had to lose 70 pounds.”

Along with switching weights forViceandFord v Ferrari, Bale has famously changed up his diets for 2004’s The Machinist, when he got down to just 120 lbs., before gaining 70 lbs. back plus another 30 lbs. of muscle to play Batman.

Nicolas Geller/Paramount Classics/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock;

Bale also lost weight — and won an Academy Award — for his role as a heroin addict in 2010’sThe Fighter, beforeadding a potbelly for 2013’sAmerican Hustle. After that movie, Bale realized it was getting tougher to lose weight.

“I thought I was going to lose the weight I gained for American Hustle. I said, two months, flat, that’ll do it. I was 185 and I went up to 228 for it. And I’m still working that off! It’s almost six months later,” he said in 2013. “Now, I know that when I was in my early twenties it would have been two months and that’s it.”

source: people.com