Image Credit: Stills from 'The Machinist' and 'Batman Begins' (Image: Paramount Classics, Warner Bros. Pictures) Christian ...

Christian Bale went to extreme lengths to capture his Machinist character. In the 2004 film, he played a malnourished blue-collar worker experiencing a possible psychotic break. When he read the ...

Christian Bale is known for pushing his body to the limits for the sake of doing his characters justice. But in a film where Bale might have pushed himself a bit too far, his wife had a difficult time ...

The popular method actor’s 200-calorie diet was alarmingly restrictive, consisting of only a can of tuna and an apple per day, with coffee and water as his only drinks. To suppress hunger, he took up ...

The Ford v Ferrari star reveals his wife's favorite is Trevor Reznik from The Machinist Christian Bale has an award-winning knack for immersing himself into his film roles — chameleon-like abilities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. However, there's one role that gets more attention than all of the rest combined: Christian Bale's portrayal of emaciated ...

Interview by Stephen Applebaum; previously published on BBC Movies. Last updated: 01 December 2008 Forget Robert De Niro piling on the pounds for Raging Bull or Renée Zellwegger getting curvy for ...