Christian Bale steps up as Dick Cheney in ‘Vice’

To say that Christian Bale devoured the role of former Vice President Dick Cheney in Vice would be understating it.

The usually svelte British actor, who reportedly ate “a lot of pies” to transform into the political figure, is unrecognisable as former President George W. Bush’s veep in the first trailer for Vice, which dropped on Wednesday.

“I’m a CEO of a large company. And I have been secretary of Defence and I have been White House chief of staff,” Bale as Cheney says to Sam Rockwell’s Bush in the trailer. “The vice presidency is a mostly symbolic job,” he continues. “However, if we came to a different understanding, I can handle the more mundane jobs overseeing bureaucracy, military, energy and foreign policy.”

The film “explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world,” according to Annapurna Pictures.