Palm Beach, Australia - Filming for the Marvel sequel Thor: Love and Thunder started at the end of January, and new photos have surfaced showing Christian Bale's extraordinary weight loss. This is not the first time this celebrity has counted calories for a role.

In 2004, the nearly six-foot-tall actor shed a ton of weight for the psychological thriller The Machinist (2004), coming in at only 120 pounds.

A year later, he not only gained about 100 pounds in five months, but also a massive amount of muscle. In Batman Begins, he weighed around 220 pounds.

He lurched to the other extreme again in 2010, starving himself down to 145 pounds for his role as the cocaine-addicted boxing trainer Dicky Eklund in The Fighter.

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And then for Vice (2018), he was back up to 220 pounds for the part of former Vice President Dick Cheney (80) – this time on the considerably chubby side!

There's no wonder Bale is considered Hollywood's king of extreme body transformations! His regular weight, by the way, is around 185 pounds.

For his role as the villain in Thor: Love and Thunder, the actor seems to have transformed himself again, but has he actually lost weight?

Despite numerous reports that Christian Bale has lost a ton of weight before heading into production for Thor: Love and Thunder in Australia, it's not really true.

Bale has confirmed that he had lost a ton of weight before he began filming his previous movie, which had wrapped up only days before he was due to start quarantine in Australia.

"I went from one film straight to Thor. I usually like to have a lot more time in between, but it was literally like three days between that and going into quarantine down in Australia," Christian Bale told Entertainment Tonight. "I was already quite skinny for the film that I’d made before."

Christian Bale's Thor weight loss did exist, causing him to be the skinny villain seen in the film, but his body transformation was not undertaken in preparation for the Marvel film in particular.

In Thor 4, God and Thunder, Christian Bale appears as Gorr the God Butcher. Photos recently published on social networks show him during a short break in filming: once again much slimmer – and bald!

Gorr the God Butcher is a villain who hates all divine beings, or Gods, across the universe, and wants to exterminate them.

The film's release is scheduled for May 6, 2022.