I worry about that too. What he did to achieve the look in The Machinist probably had his body eating up calcium from his teeth and bones.
"I came up with the absolutely brilliant method," he later recalled, "of just smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey to lose weight."
During a Reddit AMA, co-star Michael Ironside revealed an even more disturbing insight into the dangerous extremes that Bale's diet took, explaining how starvation had ravaged his body. "I went over, and it was Chris. And he said, 'Can you look at this?' And he turned and dropped his overalls, which he was naked under... and the muscles in his ass had literally dropped out of the sockets of his hips... I said, 'You've gone beyond body fat, and now you're into actual muscle tissue and things are being affected."
Then, after being 120 pounds, he immediately got jacked for Batman in a matter of months. The timeframe is too short for natural growth off his starved body. He couldn't achieve that look without something like steroids.
I think he spend a lot of his body's youth on just those two roles.
I read somewhere that his wife had a come to jesus, “I don’t want to raise our family w/o you” conversation with him about never doing this again after Vice
I worry about that too. What he did to achieve the look in The Machinist probably had his body eating up calcium from his teeth and bones.
"I came up with the absolutely brilliant method," he later recalled, "of just smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey to lose weight."
During a Reddit AMA, co-star Michael Ironside revealed an even more disturbing insight into the dangerous extremes that Bale's diet took, explaining how starvation had ravaged his body. "I went over, and it was Chris. And he said, 'Can you look at this?' And he turned and dropped his overalls, which he was naked under... and the muscles in his ass had literally dropped out of the sockets of his hips... I said, 'You've gone beyond body fat, and now you're into actual muscle tissue and things are being affected."
Source: https://www.looper.com/105544/actors-died-preparing-role/
Then, after being 120 pounds, he immediately got jacked for Batman in a matter of months. The timeframe is too short for natural growth off his starved body. He couldn't achieve that look without something like steroids.
I think he spend a lot of his body's youth on just those two roles.
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I'm glad to hear that because he needs that intervention! (His wife seems amazing)
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