Christian Bale has firmly planted his flag in staking his claim to being one of the best actors in modern history, if not all time.
If there’s any actor that has continued the legacies of Paul Muni and Daniel Day-Lewis in being the living embodiments of true chameleons, it’s him.
With one of the most one-of-a-kind metabolisms in human history that allows him to truly take on whatever shape he needs to, from the scrawny racer bod of Ken Miles in Ford v Ferrari to the bubble gut-bald combo of Dick Cheney in Vice, few actors have been as truly free as he has been in tapping into the potential of what’s inside him.
He used that metabolism to get in arguably the best shape of his life to play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, the role that officially made him a star and an actor everyone was going to take notice of.
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