These are photos from Christian Bale’s recent appearance at the SAG Awards, where he looked freshly shorn – sort of. I’m assuming that Bale is getting back to his Batman/Bruce Wayne body, and that he will soon be shaving most of this crap off. Speaking of Christian’s yo-yo dieting and bulking up, Christian would like to piss on my shoes. Your shoes too. And mostly he’d like to piss on one critic’s shoes, because that critic had the audacity to mention, in his review of The Fighter, that Christian Bale is somewhat known for his repeated body transformations for various films. The critic’s words were “trademark weight loss”. Which… is honestly one of the nicer ways it has been referenced. Some would call it Bale’s “gimmick in lieu of a true Method” or “an eating disorder that causes Bale to binge and purge for a paycheck.” Anyway, Christian spoke about the criticism and he lost his temper a little bit. Not as bad as the infamous, taped obscene rant, but it has its moments:

Christian Bale has received both praise and awards for his role in The Fighter, but it seems he doesn’t take criticism quite so well. He wants to ‘piss on the shoes’ of a critic who wrote about his ‘trademark weight loss’ acting.

The actor, who famously had an on-set meltdown filming Terminator: Salvation and also a real-life falling out with his mother and sister, was speaking to the Australian edition of Empire magazine.

The star has previously lost weight for roles in the movies The Machinist and Rescue Dawn. Discussing his role as crack-addicted welterweight fight Dicky Eklund in The Fighter, for which he also lost weight, he said: ‘To be honest, I find it laughable that it’s considered to be some f-cking gimmick – it’s so patronizing. For God’s sake, do people not understand what a pain it is to do? It’s as though it’s some comment about, ‘Oh it’s easy for him, because he’s done it a bunch of times’. It’s not easy, it’s not fun – it’s horrible. I would never pick to do that, but it’s a part that I like and he’s a welterweight and he’s a crackhead. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen a welterweight with any fat on him – or a crackhead. So it’s just what you end up having to do. Somebody told me that somebody wrote something about my “trademark weight loss”. I’d just like to piss on that guy’s shoes.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Matt Damon lost a ton of weight for Courage Under Fire, and then he thinned up for The Talented Mr. Ripley, and then he bulked up for The Informant. Tom Hanks memorably did weight gain and then weight loss for Castaway. There is method to it, and I don’t doubt that it is difficult for Christian to lose and gain so much weight for the roles that he takes. But after a while, it does seem like a gimmick, you know? Doesn’t it seem like every other film he does has him doing some extreme diet? So should we just say “Oh, that’s His Process” or should we begin to question it just a little – “Hey, why do you only take roles that have you doing some radical transformation to your body? Do you have issues? Do you think if you had a healthier relationship with food you wouldn’t be such a surly jag all of the time?”

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