Christian Bale has insisted that he is not a method actor.
The British star has received universal priase for his performance in new movie The Fighter, which sees him take on the role of an ex-boxer with an addiction.
Bale dropped weight for the role but insists that the characters that he creates are just 'pure imagination.'
Speaking to The Mirror the actor said: "I'm not having therapy. It's very limiting if I have to relate every damn thing in somebody else's life to something that’s happened in mine. At the end of the day, I'm faking it. Pure imagination.
"I never took any classes, I just go, 'I better wing this one and make it up!' Everybody talks about the process too much. The interesting thing about a movie is the movie."
"The more I talk about it, the more I'm telling people how to react. I want to talk, but I try not to show too much of myself."
And Bale has been winning awards left, right and centre for his performance and he is hotly tipped tp pick up the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at the end of the month.
The Fighter is out now.
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