Christian Bale

From maniacal performances to high-flying stunts, these three actors were inspired by Hollywood legend Tom Cruise's on-screen antics.

From extreme starvation to eating raw meat, these actors maybe took method acting a little too far...

Gorr! Gorr! Gorr!

Okay, now we’re excited.

See how film and television's biggest stars hit the red carpet for the 2019 SAG Awards.

“I was dressed as Bruce Wayne. So he talked to me like I was Bruce Wayne and I just went along with it.”

They dated *who*?

He was almost cast as Woody Harrelson’s mysterious mentor character in the movie.

Some actors are chameleons who disappear into their roles — like Gary Oldman and his prosthetics, or Daniel Day-Lewis and his prestigious method Acting. But only one actor has a body that’s capable of transforming into myriad shapes and sizes, shrinking and expanding itself, seemingly at will, to inhabit any number of roles. That actor is Christian Bale, and for his latest experiment in testing the boundaries of good health, he’s morphed his oft-chiseled physique into a squishy human-shaped cushion to portray former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Adam McKay’s best known as the director of Will Ferrell comedies like Anchorman and Step Brothers. His films tend to be weird, bizarre, and silly. But his 2010 buddy cop comedy The Other Guys ended on a note that was more outraged than outrageous: Animated infographic closing credits that outlined the reasons and details of the 2008 economic collapse (which was the background of the case investigated in the film by Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s characters).