Christian Bale to lose more weight for next role

Christian Bale is to continue his trend of dramatically losing weight for films ahead of his next role in Concrete Island.

The Britsh actor, who gave an outstanding performance in the recently released film The Fighter, will once again transform his appearance when he takes on the part of Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect who crashes his Jaguar on a manmade concrete island.

Surrounded by a motorway, Maitland has to survive on the contents of his car, and anything else he can find, in the psychological thriller.

Concrete Island director Brad Anderson said: "I've got another project that Scott Kosar, the writer of 'The Machinist' is writing. It's based on J.G. Ballard's novel called 'Concrete Island'. It's an urban survival story that Christian Bale is attached to be in."

Bale lost enormous amounts of weight for The Fighter and previously for the shooting of The Machinist for which he famously ate just a can of tuna and an apple a day in 2004 to drops 60lbs for the role.

The actor said he finds a “calming influence” from extreme dieting but claimed he would never go to the lengths he did for The Machinist again.

"I was the calmest mentally that I've ever been in my life,” he said.

“You just go beyond any bodily needs. Your energy gets to such a low point that it all just becomes mental. You felt like some sort of guru that could go sit on top of a mountain.

"Mentally, it does wonders, but I would never sacrifice the joys, the ups and the downs, the rollercoaster of life for that calmness. I'd rather be getting in there, getting involved and having it a bit more raw than that."