Even for a method actor, Christian Bale has gone to some pretty wild extremes, from starving himself to play a paranoid insomniac in The Machinist to eating a bunch of pies to play Dick Cheney in Vice. (Hey, we didn't say it was a completely miserable job.)
But in an upcoming interview with CBS Sunday Morning to promote this month's Oscars hopeful Ford v. Ferrari, Bale claimed that his days of body modification are behind him, saying, "I really think I'm done with it." So you're saying he doesn't play one of the cars?
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