Brad Anderson - Anderson Guilty About Bale's Weight Loss

THE MACHINIST director BRAD ANDERSON feels pangs of guilt every time he recalls the suffering British actor CHRISTIAN BALE endured to play the lead role.

The normally muscle-bound AMERICAN PSYCHO hunk ended up weighing a paltry 54 kilograms (eight and a half stone) by the time shooting began, because he refused to compromise the movie by not losing enough weight.

The 40-year-old tells British magazine HOTDOG, "In SCOTT KOSAR's script, TREVOR is described as a walking skeleton but Christian went well beyond the call of duty realising this character.

"I could make a whole other movie on the subject of guilt just from my experience of watching this man reduce himself to 120 pounds."