Christian Bale is an actor that is well-known for his intense commitment to getting into character when he is filming a new movie role. A few years ago, right before he donned the black cape and cowl for Batman Begins, Bale lost a significant amount of weight in order to portray a deathly thin character in his film The Machinist (incidentally, within a few months after he completed work on Machinist, he bulked up for his role in Batman). It appears that Bale is at it again. Here are a couple of photos of Christian on the set of his new film The Fighter wherein he plays a boxer turned drug addict:

Yeesh … Christian does look really gaunt and really frail. He deffo has that cracked out druggie look going for him. But, in case you’re not familiar with his film The Machinist, he slimmed down a lot more for that film:

Christian‘s bone-thin appearance was not due to special effects … he actually lost all the weight to look this painfully thin for the role. You gotta respect an actor that will go to such lengths for a movie role. He looks terrible but it’s clearly the look he is going for. Yikes!

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