{"id":263379,"date":"2018-12-12T14:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/christian-bale-reveals-what-he-did-to-transform-into-dick-cheney-in-vice\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:32:48","slug":"christian-bale-reveals-what-he-did-to-transform-into-dick-cheney-in-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/christian-bale-reveals-what-he-did-to-transform-into-dick-cheney-in-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bale Reveals What He Did to Transform Into Dick Cheney in Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noted method actor and body transformer Christian Bale<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has done it again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bale plays\u00a0Dick Cheney<\/strong> in the new Golden Globe-nominated film,\u00a0Vice,\u00a0<\/em>and had to gain a decent amount of weight for the film. He looked nearly unrecognizable<\/a> in the trailer for\u00a0Vice,\u00a0<\/em>but has since dropped most of the pounds<\/a> he put on to prepare for the role.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Batman<\/em> star discussed the physical transformation and how\u00a0Vice<\/em>‘s director Adam McKay<\/strong>\u00a0was “relieved” when he saw Bale as Cheney for the first time. E! News spoke to Bale at The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in L.A. about his Golden Globe nomination and McKay’s priceless reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n

“What a relief it must have been for him right?” Bale told us. “I mean you don’t exactly look at me and go, ‘Oh yeah! He should be Dick Cheney.'”<\/span><\/p>\n

It is quite the jump from a Bat Suit in the Batmobile to a black suit in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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He continued, “That must have been such a bloody relief for him to see me walk through the door.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s\u00a0his striking transition into the Vice President along with co-stars including\u00a0Amy Adams<\/a><\/strong>who plays his wife Lynne Cheney<\/strong>, and Sam Rockwell<\/a><\/strong> as George W. Bush<\/a><\/strong>, that undoubtedly helped the actor and the movie garner\u00a0two nominations<\/a> for the 2019 Golden Globes<\/a><\/strong>Vice<\/em> was nominated in the\u00a0B<\/span>est Actor in a Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy and Best Motion Picture \u2013 Musical or Comedy categories.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The\u00a0American Hustle<\/em> star was quite pleased about the accolade. “It was great. It’s really exciting,” he told E! News. “It’s lovely because it really was a magnificent team effort and it’s great everyone got recognized.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The transformation took a lot of work (read: eating). He admitted that it’s not best feeling in the world to indulge like he did every day to take on 40 pounds for the role. So what did it take?<\/span><\/p>\n

“I tend to be quite habitual. Eggs and rice\u2014that was it,” he said. “But it ended up sort of 15 eggs on a bowl of rice. It was that enjoyment of being full nonstop, but it gets quite sickening after a while you know? Your back goes out and all sorts of other things but that all helped with playing [the role].”<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that he’s dropped the weight,\u00a0it seems like he’s planning on keeping the it off. He said that he looks forward to spending the holidays indulging in some sports instead. “My daughter is going to teach me how to surf,” he shared.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Vice<\/em> opens\u00a0in theaters Christmas Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Don’t miss E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Noted method actor and body transformer Christian Bale\u00a0has done it again. Bale plays\u00a0Dick Cheney in the new Golden Globe-nominated film,\u00a0Vice,\u00a0and had to gain a decent amount of weight for the film. He looked nearly unrecognizable in the trailer for\u00a0Vice,\u00a0but has since dropped most of the pounds he put on to prepare for the role. The\u00a0Batman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:33:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}