How Much Weight Christian Bale Has Gained & Lost For Movie Roles

Christian Bale weight changes have been notable as he has played roles that have required extreme physical transformations, losing and gaining large amounts of weight depending on the character’s needs. Bale made his big screen debut in 1987 in the fantasy movie Mio in the Land of Faraway, though his name became known when he played Jim Graham in Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun when he was 13 years old. Bale went on to appear in a number of movies after that, before his breakout adult role as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.