Christian Bale no longer wants to undergo extreme weight variations

The actor lost more than 30 kilos to go from Dick Cheney to the car runner of Le Mans 66 (to be reviewed this Monday on France 3).

Gain weight then lose it, build muscle then melt again … Christian Bale is of its actors who are not afraid to make the Yo-Yo for the needs of a role. Of The Machinist has American Hustlepassing through the trilogy Batman Or The Fighterthere is no shortage of examples in his filmography. But since 2019, it has been over: then 45 years old, the actor admitted to being fed up with playing with his body, and since he stands there, no longer varying role weight as a role.

Just before making this decision, he had transformed to play Dick Cheney in Vice (2018), winning a Golden Globe and an Oscar appointment in the best actor category. Shortly after, he interpreted the car runner Ken Miles in Le Mans 66an excellent film by James Mangold To be reviewed on France 3 tonight. Bale had then had to follow a new drastic diet to relieve the overweight he had stored for Vice.

“”I don’t stop saying that I’m done with that“He replied in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning (via EW). “”I really think this time it’s over, yes“.

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The problem is that the public is always impressed by this kind of transformation, which is not recommendable for health. Matt Damon, his partner in Le Mans 66illustrates this fascination well. “”I had a great time watching it“He said.”There has been an incredible discipline over a period of about a month … He went from Dick Cheney to this type. So he had to lose around thirty kilos“.

Let us not forget that playing with thus with the scale is not without consequences. A few years ago, Tom Hardy, who had become a mass to embody Bane in the Dark Knight Rises (alongside Bale, therefore), had thus recognized that his joints have grown since, and that he now had trouble carrying his children – note that the second opus in the saga, The Dark Knight (2008)will also be broadcast this evening on TV, on TMC.

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Since the cinema release of Mans 66Christian Bale was held at this decision to no longer impose on his body of drastic regimes, whether magnifying or weight loss. In Thor: Love and Thunder,, Amsterdam And The pale Blue Eyehe plays in his formal weight, that is to say rather dry: without a kilo too much and the hollow cheeks. Ditto in The Bridethe rereading of Frankenstein by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is to be released next September and whose first photo we recently discovered:

Here is the synopsis and the trailer of Mans 66to review this evening on television:

Based on a true story, the film follows a team of eccentric American engineers led by the visionary Carroll Shelby and its British pilot Ken Miles, who are sent by Henry Ford II to build from nothing a new car which must dethrone the Ferrari to the 1966 Le Mans competition.

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