Written By: Priyanka Ganwani | Updated: December 22, 2014, 6:56 PM
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In his movie career of over 3 decades now, Christine Bale has had extreme physiques for various roles. He has had to skip eating his usual diet to get to half his weight on one hand and on the other, he has had to gorge up on junk food to look pot-bellied and bulgy overall. Here are some of his jaw-dropping body transformations so far.
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American Psycho (2000): Christian worked to get his well-built muscular physique for his role as a killer. He was under personal training and stuck to a fitness regime for 6 days a week.
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The Machinist (2004): In the Machinist, Christian portrayed Trevor Reznic’s role as a rather scrawny, insomniac being. He resorted to apple, coffee and only water for over 4 months to look this extreme.
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Rescue Dawn (2005): Christian looked rugged and raw for this survival film. He dropped a good 24 kg and came down to 61 kg for this navy pilot character.
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Batman Begins (2006): After sporting an unnerving physique in ‘The Machinist,’ Christian gained all that muscle weight back and stuck to a high-carb diet for this one. He followed 3 hours of rigorous training to be the ultimate batman.
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Terminator Salvation (2009): In this movie, Christian was seen fighting dreadful robots like he was born to do it. He is said to have had rigorous gym training to carry-off fight sequences gracefully.
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The Fighter (2010): To carry-off a role which demanded Christian to be a little obsessive and crack in the head, he got on to a regime looking rather run-down. He was on a strong cardio regime and would run as much to keep up with this role.
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Christian Bale took on the challenge to bulk-up for what is now his signature and legendary role. He went on to gain those 6-pack abs, so as to look the part in Batman’s bodysuit like never before.
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American Hustle (2013): We got to see Christian pot-bellied and rather massive in his role as Irving Rosenfeld. Christian stuffed on junk food for that belly fat.
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Exodus (2014): Christian unveils himself as the slim and rather charming Moses in Exodus. He is slim and well in-form for the historic role. It’s undoubtedly a great transformation from the flabby Mr. Irving, he played in ‘American Hustle.’
