Christian Bale Viewed 60 Pound Weight Loss as a 'Challenge'

Christian Bale keeps it casual while stepping out for some grub at Le Pain Quotidien on Thursday (October 9) in Brentwood, Calif.

It was recently reported that the 40-year-old actor lost 60 pounds for his role in The Machinist, due to a typo.

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“The writer is only about five-foot-six, and he put his own weights in,” Christian‘s co-star Michael Ironside shared to Huffington Post. “And then Chris did the film and Chris said, ‘No, don’t change the weights. I want to see if I make them.’ … So those weights he writes on the bathroom wall in the film are his actual weights in the film.”

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