<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a20ffde1-3c70-4281-8423-e957eb63934f/D9A70AEC-2F28-452F-B859-31389E8552A8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Christian_Bale_loses_weight_for_new_film&in_article_id=710531&in_page_id=27" href="http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Christian_Bale_loses_weight_for_new_film&in_article_id=710531&in_page_id=27" style="font-size: 11px;">www.metro.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Christian_Bale_loses_weight_for_new_film&in_article_id=710531&in_page_id=27"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.metro.co.uk/img/E4F249B7-89C8-4A32-8667-F0FB32EC3986" alt="Christian Bale looks emaciated on the set of The Fighter" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Christian_Bale_loses_weight_for_new_film&in_article_id=710531&in_page_id=27"><H2 class="articlestandfirst">A skinny-looking Christian Bale was virtually unrecognisable as he walked around the set of his new film The Fighter yesterday. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Christian_Bale_loses_weight_for_new_film&in_article_id=710531&in_page_id=27"><P class="article"> The Dark Knight star has shed weight for his role as a drug-addicted boxer in the film, which was shooting in Boston. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Christian_Bale_loses_weight_for_new_film&in_article_id=710531&in_page_id=27"><P class="article"> This isn't the first time Christian has gone to such extremes for a role - in 2004 he lost five stone by eating just apples and drinking coffee to play emaciated insomniac Trevor Reznik in The Machinist. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Christian_Bale_loses_weight_for_new_film&in_article_id=710531&in_page_id=27"><P class="article"> The 6ft actor weighed just 121 pound (8st 6lb) and had to put the weight back on again in just six weeks by gorging on ice-cream and pizza after he landed the role of the Caped Crusader in Batman Begins. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/films/article.html?Christian_Bale_loses_weight_for_new_film&in_article_id=710531&in_page_id=27"><P class="article"> To prepare for The Fighter, Christian has been following a special diet and has started taking boxing lessons. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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