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Should have let Bale keep the weight on


I was reading that they made him drop weight when he showed up to be more like Batman ?? Affleck has been the only one so far to have the size down. At least in comparison to the Dark Knight comic.

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The way he looks at the end of The Machinist in the flashback scene, is probably how he showed up looking for Batman Begins (he put on a significant amount of weight in contrast to his skeletal appearance). But if he got a bit bigger than that, then I see why he was apparently being called “Fatman” by the Batman crew. Lol.

He was pretty cut in Batman Begins either way. Perhaps he didn’t get as big as Affleck (Affleck is a naturally bigger guy) but he was all muscle and looked leaned enough to believably be flexible in that suit.

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