{"id":234338,"date":"2021-03-25T12:12:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T11:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gymbeam.com\/blog\/?p=234338"},"modified":"2024-05-07T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T08:25:08","slug":"christian-bale-hollywoods-king-of-extreme-body-transformations-who-nearly-doubled-his-weight-in-just-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gymbeam.com\/blog\/christian-bale-hollywoods-king-of-extreme-body-transformations-who-nearly-doubled-his-weight-in-just-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bale: Hollywood’s King of Extreme Body Transformations Who Nearly Doubled His Weight in Just 6 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Christian Bale was born on January 30th 1974 in Wales, where he lived out his childhood. The future Dark Knight’s first experience with acting<\/strong> was in a Lenor detergent commercial as a 9 year old<\/strong>. His first appearance on the silver screen was in Steven Spielberg’s war drama Empire of the Sun at the age of 13<\/strong>. After his parents’ divorce, he moved to LA with his father, where, aged 20, he met his future wife Sandra \u201cSibi\u201d Bla\u017ei\u0107, who at the time worked as an assistant to Winona Ryder at the filming set of Little Women<\/em>. Christian recounts this to be love at first sight, whereupon he immediately knew he wanted to marry Sibi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The excellent Patrick Bateman in American Psycho<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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This came to pass. However, despite his great success, Christian’s career went through some rough patches. He ended up losing the role of Jack in Titanic<\/em><\/strong> to Leonardo DiCaprio. In a brilliant comeback in 2000, Bale stole away the role of Patrick Bates<\/strong> in the American Psycho<\/strong> – a role also sought after by DiCaprio. A curious fact about this is that Christian’s friends tried to talk him out of accepting the role of a psychopathic murderer, assuming it would spell the end of his career. This, as we know, had quite the opposite effect, and Christian’s excellent performance in the film ended up significantly boosting his credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A tin of tuna and an apple a day, chain smoking his weight away<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here’s where Christian’s incredible and famed physical transformations begin. In 2004 he was casted for the main role in The Machinist. <\/em>He got into his role of insomniac worker so intensely, he lost astounding 28 kg<\/strong> of weight prior to the shooting. When he first appeared on the set, the director couldn’t believe his eyes: the 183 cm tall Christian Bale showed up weighing measly 55 kg<\/strong>. The way he managed this, however, was extremely unhealthy. His daily diet consisted of a <\/b>tin of tuna<\/strong>,<\/a> a single apple, <\/b>and a Herculean amount of cigarettes. <\/b>Suffice to say, the side effects did not hold back. Christian suffered from constant leg pain, as he had close to no muscle left on his lower body<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Putting on 45 kg in just 6 months<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Six months later, Christian was issued an enormous challenge. Having been cast into the role of Batman for Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins<\/em>, a new, even more surprising transformation was on its way. As you no doubt know, Batman, being a comic book super hero, excels at physical prowess – a trait, which had to be reflected in the main role actor’s body. For this role alone, Bale put on extreme 45 kilograms<\/strong> in an insanely short span of time – just about half a year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

From fat man to Batman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Christian’s extreme weight gain, of course, meant accumulating a lot of fat, and the film crew did not miss out on the opportunity to joke around, remarking on his figure being more akin to a fat man than Batman. Bale did not bail and lost 20 kg of fat while putting on muscle.<\/strong> His quick bulking was accompanied by a high-carb diet, which consisted mainly of bread and pasta. Later on, he added a high intake of protein,<\/a> coming mostly from chicken and fish.<\/a><\/strong> The key part, of course, were the hardcore strength trainings<\/strong> which took turns with cardio a high intensity interval trainings. <\/a><\/strong> He spent 5 days a week in the gym<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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