Bale Made Himself Sick Preparing For Batman
October 20, 2004
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Batman Begins star Christian Bale has made himself ill whilst preparing for his role as the Caped Crusader. The star lost a third of his body weight for his last film, The Machinist, and had to rush to put the weight on to impress producers of the new Batman film. "It was only about six weeks between finishing The Machinist and doing the screen test for Batman Begins. The director, Christopher Nolan, asked me to try and put on as much weight as I could because he would find it very difficult to convince the studio to cast me if I was a beanpole. In doing so I overdid it because I was enjoying gorging. I was ignoring advice about taking it slowly because my stomach had shrunk, and I should just go with soups. I was straight into pizza and ice-cream and eating five meals in a sitting. My stomach expanded really quickly. I got very sick during that time but I enjoyed getting sick. I didn't mind it at all. In that short amount of time I did actually go from 121 (pounds) right back up to 180 (pounds) which is way too fast so that resulted in some doctor visits to get things sorted out."

Take a look at the review for The Machinist here.