Cutting weight: that's not it, bro.
I'm amazed that he's still alive.
"It's an amazing experience doing that. When you're so skinny that you can hardly walk up a flight of stairs ... you're, like, this being of pure thought. It's like you've abandoned your body.
"That's the most Zen-like state I've ever been in my life. Two hours sleep, reading a book for 10 hours straight without stopping ... unbelievable. You couldn't rile me up. No rollercoaster of emotions."
The actor had to lose a whopping 62 pounds for his role in 'The Machinist', which took a massive toll on his body.
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"I came up with the absolutely brilliant method of just smoking cigarettes and drinking whiskey to lose weight,” Bale told
Star2.com, reflecting on the role. Of course, this isn't the long and short of it, but it's pretty close. Bale has since expanded that his daily diet, dubbed the "Black Coffee Fast", consisted of black coffee, a solitary apple and a tin of tuna every day.
That equates to a daily intake of about 200 calories. And incredibly, the 54kg final weight Bale eventually reached reportedly wasn't enough for him. Bale wanted to cut down to a mere 45kg, however the film's producers stopped him for health reasons.
Reckon you could live on 200 calories a day?
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In that last article he says he will not be doing such dramatic transformations anymore, "because I'm older and I feel like if I keep doing what I've done in the past I'm going to die. So, I'd prefer not to die." He also said mortality was staring him in the face.