Actor Christian Bale struggled to prepare for his role in new movie Rescue Dawn
- because he was only allowed to eat one meal a day.
The Batman Begins star shed a massive 49 pounds (22.2 kilograms) to play a
prisoner of war - and was so hungry he often binged on several meals at once.
He says, "I chose not to go to eat with anybody because the second I saw or
smelled food, I was like a wolf.
"But there was a couple of times when I got too hungry and ate five meals in
one go. Obviously my stomach wasn't prepared for that so I felt terrible
afterwards."
The 33-year-old is known for the extreme measures he goes through to get into
character - in 2004 he went on a crash diet to lose 60 pounds (27.2 kilograms)
to convincingly play an insomniac for The Machinist. (PAW/WNTRE/MT)
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June 7, 2008 at 16:48