Christian Bale announced he will no longer radically transform his body for film roles, citing Tom Hanks' diabetes diagnosis as a cautionary precedent. Hanks publicly blamed the repeated weight gain and loss cycles required for roles like Castaway as the cause of his type 2 diabetes diagnosed over a decade ago. Bale, who cycled between 65-pound weight losses and 100-pound gains across Machinist, Batman, Vice, and Ford v Ferrari, now says his career no longer requires those extremes to land work.
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