Christian Bale Piles On The Pounds Once Again For The Sake Of His Art

Christian Bale has a pretty impressive list of credits to his name already. American Psycho, The Dark Knight and behind the camera, the king of yo-yo dieting. Once more the actor is shape-shifting his physical appearance for another movie role, but just how good can it be for his health?

The Welsh born actor was spotted on his way to the set of his latest film today and was definitely carrying a bit of extra weigh on his muscular frame.

Bale's biggest weight shocker came back in 2004 when he dropped to roughly 110 lbs to play Trevor Reznik in psychological thriller The Machinist.

The actor said afterwards that to lose the weight he stuck to a strict regime of coffee and apples. He then had to gorge himself on pizza and ice-cream to play the Caped Crusader immediately after the film wrapped!

Still from 2004's The Machinist with a painfully thin Christian Bale (Credit: WENN.com)

It was reported that against the advice of his doctors, Bale gained 121 lbs in six weeks!

Currently Bale is starring in an untitled David O.Russell film alongside Silver Linings Playbook stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. The film also features Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams.

This isn't the first time that the Little Women star has worked with director David O. Russell, or changed his body shape for him either!

The pair worked together on The Fighter, for which Bale lost 30 lbs. He did however gain an Oscar for it. We wish we won an Oscar every time we went on a diet!

What do you think of Bale's crazy diets? Method acting or just plain mad!

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