There's a sad song being sung in the hearts of vegetarians this morning, as we read this interview that Dark Knight star and veg-since-the-age-of-7 Christian Bale gave to GQ about why he has gone back to eating animals.

- The bodybuilding and unbuilding you’ve done for your roles is alarming—the former all the more so for its being accomplished without any animal protein.
Actually, I’m in and out of the vegetarianism now. But yeah, the majority of the building up you’re talking about was done when I was still a vegetarian.
When did you fall off the wagon?
Just after I’d completed American Psycho [for which Bale, as the preening sociopath Patrick Bateman, got furiously ripped].
Dietary reasons? Or something to do with the character?
I was up in Toronto and went to see that movie Life Is Beautiful. By myself. And when I came out, I had a craving for blood unlike anything I had ever experienced since I decided to go vegetarian at the age of 7. It was a compulsion. It was undeniable. I went to several restaurants, one right after the other, and got the biggest, bloodiest steaks I could get my hands on. It was the first time I had tasted flesh in almost twenty years.
Life Is Beautiful.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Life Is Beautiful? Anyone else have a similar urge to consume massive amounts of steak following seeing this movie?
We were willing to dismiss his recent animal-like outburst on the Terminator set, but this, I'm afraid will be much harder for veg-heads to forgive. But hey, at least he's still partially "in" veggie-ism right?
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