Christian Bale went to extreme lengths to capture his Machinist character. In the 2004 film, he played a malnourished blue-collar worker experiencing a possible psychotic break.

Christian Bale's most famous body transformation was in The Machinist but he actually had a bigger change when filming Ford v Ferrari.

The latest trend in Hollywood does not occur in the script, but on the weight scale. Renee Zellweger shrunk down for her role in "Chicago," then put on weight to appear more "average" in the "Bridget ...

2004 - The Machinist Bale took on another notable role in the psychological thriller The Machinist as Trevor Reznik, a machinist struggling with paranoia and delusion as the result of not sleeping ...

THE MACHINIST *** 1/2 STARRING: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, John Sharian, Michael Ironside DIRECTOR: Brad Anderson RUNNING TIME: 97 minutes RATING: R for violence ...