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."
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
And I wanted a little more generosity to make myself feel more at ease, which is my own ego.
It's kinda wild that she thinks wanting generosity has anything to do with ego, when it's completely normal to expect your scene partner to offer you, you know, actual partnership. Some of the most talented actors I've ever worked with were very generous with their colleagues and quite humble as well. Method~ actors who don't break character even BTS often put a damp on the entire set, cannot stand them.
It’s not as simplistic as evil or nice tho bc within those adjectives you have a multitude of nuances. If a typically shy, reserved actor had to play a character like Jake Peralta from B99 (he’s the first genuinely nice male character I could think of) they’d still need to dive into plenty of stuff that makes the character what he is - the OTTness, the constant joking, the childish games, and the larger than life personality. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t really pay off to be the guy who’s remarkably nice to everyone bc it’s the problematic characters who get praise for their complexity - much like people’s misguided perception that drama is factually harder than comedy.
Having worked with a few too many method actors, I think Robert’s quote makes perfect sense bc the reality is that some people (usually men) just want to be able to openly embrace questionable traits, and using art to do it is the perfect excuse.
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The general public: who?
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if i was an actor i could never be like christian bale
just fucking up my body in various ways just for a role in a movie
i can't help but think he's gonna die young
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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 ( ... )
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I'm glad to hear that because he needs that intervention! (His wife seems amazing)
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I like the family guy version too
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It's kinda wild that she thinks wanting generosity has anything to do with ego, when it's completely normal to expect your scene partner to offer you, you know, actual partnership. Some of the most talented actors I've ever worked with were very generous with their colleagues and quite humble as well. Method~ actors who don't break character even BTS often put a damp on the entire set, cannot stand them.
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like robert pattinson said
you don't see method actors when the role calls for being nice
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This quote annoys me.
To get into the mind of an evil person should be a foreign concept that you would have to study, while being a good person should come naturally.
I don't use the word nice, because nice and kind are two vastly different things.
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Having worked with a few too many method actors, I think Robert’s quote makes perfect sense bc the reality is that some people (usually men) just want to be able to openly embrace questionable traits, and using art to do it is the perfect excuse.
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