The actor looks almost unrecognisable at the moment, as he gains weight to play Vice President Dick Cheney upcoming biopic Backseat.
Asked about how he'd done it at Toronto International Film Festival this week, he smiled: "I've just been eating a lot of pies.".
Christian Bale says he's been eating "lots of pies" to look like former VP Dick Cheney for upcoming film #VarietyStudio presented by @att pic.twitter.com/kc6jxINLZZ — Variety (@Variety) September 12, 2017.
Dick Cheney with George W. Bush in 2006 (Photo: Getty ) (AFP/ Getty Images).
Bale was not an obvious casting choice for Cheney in terms of appearance, but nor was Steve Carell as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
He is probably best remembered, however - at least in pop cultural terms - for accidentally shooting a lawyer during a quail hunt in 2006.
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