Christian Bale GQ Magazine June 2009

Christian Bale takes on GQ for their June issue of the mag.  He gives a rather interesting interview, check out some highlights below:

The bodybuilding and unbuilding you’ve done for your roles is alarming—the former all the more so for its being accomplished without any animal protein.
Actually, I’m in and out of the vegetarianism now. But yeah, the majority of the building up you’re talking about was done when I was still a vegetarian.

When did you fall off the wagon?
Just after I’d completed American Psycho [for which Bale, as the preening sociopath Patrick Bateman, got furiously ripped].

Dietary reasons? Or something to do with the character?
I was up in Toronto and went to see that movie Life Is Beautiful. By myself. And when I came out, I had a craving for blood unlike anything I had ever experienced since I decided to go vegetarian at the age of 7. It was a compulsion. It was undeniable. I went to several restaurants, one right after the other, and got the biggest, bloodiest steaks I could get my hands on. It was the first time I had tasted flesh in almost twenty years.

 Life Is Beautiful.
Yeah.

That makes sense.
Yeah.

Below are a few pictures from his photo shoot where he was showing off some of his different personalities.  Check out GQ for more.

 

cover photo: JJ