Christian Bale Movie Transformations
7 Times Christian Bale Completely Transformed For a Movie Role
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Playing former vice president Dick Cheney in Vice just might be Bale's biggest physical transformation yet. Bale had the help of prosthetics and makeup to completely disappear, but he had to do some of the work himself too — most notably gaining about forty pounds. On the red carpet, he told E! a few details about the physical preparation.
"I tend to be quite habitual. Eggs and rice—that was it," he said. "But it ended up sort of 15 eggs on a bowl of rice. It was that enjoyment of being full nonstop, but it gets quite sickening after a while you know? Your back goes out and all sorts of other things but that all helped with playing [the role]."