The Machinist

Because it was in between Batman movies when he'd done that one...

Yeah, The Machinist.

The Machinist.

That's the boxing one, eh?

No, The Machinist was the one where he was like fucking...

He was like a dude that fucking...

He was like, what, 70 kilos or 60 kilos or some shit? But he was like...

You know, I'm thinking of some of his characters that he's played.

And I'm not thinking, of course, about, you know, about the Batman films for Christopher Nolan, but American Psycho and then The Machinist.

And the fighter and vice and some of these, and even 310 to Yuma, some of these great character performances from Christian Bale and the enormous commitment he gives to put his body through all kinds of changes so he can look the part.

You can't deny the dedication.

Some people think it's a mental illness that he might be a little too method or a little too committed to his roles.

I heard that he lost dramatic amounts of weight to play the machinist when he got down to like 80 pounds.

I don't know if you've seen the picture of him, but he was a skeleton.

And he got down to 80 pounds.

I think it's an absolutely exceptional film.

And part of me can't give films like Talented Mr. Ripley and The Machinist, Girl Interrupted.

I love them films.

I could watch them over and over again, probably more than Fellowship of the Ring.

Right.

And he did a Christian Bale from The Machinist.

It was really good stuff.

You know what I mean? It was like he had it.

You want to go down to 145 pounds so you could see your abs.

And then you look like Christian Bale in The Machinist.

Look that up.

I think he was 120 actually.

Love that.

The Machinist with Batman.

What's his name? Christian Bale.

Thank you.

They spent some time making sure there's no mystery left.

Overexplained.

Yeah, when the writer of The Machinist is at the helm, you're going to get some backdoor.

Oh, I looked

The Prestige.

The Machinist.

I haven't watched The Machinist.

Incredible film.

There's a film, American Hustle's incredible.

He lost, like, se- he... all he did was-

... eat an apple and smoke a cig.

That was his day, I think.

He just, like, ate apples and smoked cigarettes to get as lean as humanly possible for The Machinist and then was Batman.

What the fuck are we doing here?

[laughs] Christopher Nolan said, "I asked you to be Batman, not fat man." [laughs]