{"id":19188,"date":"2018-11-26T16:19:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=19188"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:19:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:19:13","slug":"physical-transformation-key-for-me-to-enjoy-acting-christian-bale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=19188","title":{"rendered":"Physical transformation key for me to enjoy acting: Christian Bale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the skeletal insomniac in &#8220;The Machinist&#8221; to the pot-bellied con artist in &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;, Hollywood superstar Christian Bale is that rare artist who stops at nothing to get under the skin of his characters.This &#8220;transformation&#8221; is the key to his acting and keeps the process intriguing and interesting, Bale said in an interview to DIN.&#8221;It&#8217;s not necessarily what everybody does. I greatly admire people who are able to be themselves and be entertaining and be one thing all the time. There is an incredible talent to that. I don&#8217;t have that.&#8221;I like to see how much I can take myself out of each and every character I play. I actually enjoy that I don&#8217;t have a particular technique and it change all the time. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; Bale, who is currently in India to promote Andy Serkis&#8217; Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle for Netflix, said.\u00a0The actor, who has spoiled Batman forever for other artistes with his masterful depiction of the angst-ridden superhero in Christopher Nolan&#8217;s critically-lauded and commercially successful trilogy, said people often attach the tag of &#8220;method actor&#8221; to him but the term is alien for him.Not being a trained performer, the 44-year-old approaches every role with some apprehension and that one question everybody ponders over &#8212; Oh god, how am I gonna do this?\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t consider myself the master of my craft and I think that&#8217;s what keeps me intrigued because I never did train. I literally had couple of weekends at YMCA. I make it up each time and my wife knows this. Every time I get cast, I go, &#8216;Oh god! How am I gonna do this.&#8217; I change my technique every single time,&#8221; Bale told PTI.&#8221;People have been saying to me that &#8216;you are a method actor&#8217;. That requires training in the method and I have no idea what that means at all. I just make it up as I go along,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nWhile superhero fans just can&#8217;t see or imagine anyone else playing Batman, cinephiles have always held films such as The Machinist , &#8220;American Psycho&#8221; and &#8220;The Fighter&#8221; as examples of how great his cinema is.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the skeletal insomniac in &#8220;The Machinist&#8221; to the pot-bellied con artist in &#8220;American Hustle&#8221;, Hollywood superstar Christian Bale is that rare artist who stops at nothing to get under the skin of his characters.This &#8220;transformation&#8221; is the key to his acting and keeps the process intriguing and interesting, Bale said in an interview to DIN.&#8221;It&#8217;s not necessarily what everybody does. I greatly admire people who are able to be themselves and be entertaining and be one thing all the time. There is an incredible talent to that. I don&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19191,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions\/19191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}