Christian Bale is showing off a significant weight gain as he prepares to play Dick Cheney in the upcoming biopic Backseat — find out how he did it and see the transformation pics!
Christian Bale Reveals How He Gained Weight to Play Dick Cheney: Then and Now Pics
If Christian Bale has to gain weight for a role, at least he’s enjoying the process.
During an appearance at the Variety Studio at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 11, the 43-year-old actor revealed how he’s how he’s packing on pounds to play Dick Cheney in the upcoming biopic Backseat about the former vice president.
“I’ve just been eating a lot of pies so far,” the Oscar winner explained to Variety of his fuller figure. The biopic, which is scheduled to start filming this month, also stars Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld and Bill Pullman as Nelson Rockefeller.
This isn’t the first time Bale has underwent major physical transformations for his work. To play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho back in 2000, Bale got buff and toned. For his 2014 role in The Machinist, the actor lost 60 pounds by reportedly only eating an apple and can of tuna fish each day. He then packed the muscle back on to star in Batman Begins just six weeks later.
During American Hustle, where Bale played chubby conman Irving Rosenfeld, he gained a noticeable amount of weight and showed off his beer belly in one scene. His costar Jennifer Lawrence was disappointed by Bale’s new physique, according to director David O. Russell. “'I finally get to make out with Christian Bale and he's a really fat guy,'" Russell recalled Lawrence saying while filming the crime drama. She said: "'He's Fatman, not Batman.'"
Backseat is expected to hit theaters in late 2018.
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