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"What a missed opportunity! Jennifer Lawrence may have been lucky enough to smooch Christian Bale in the Golden Globe-nominated film American Hustle, but director David O. Russell admits it wasn&amp;apos;t exactly how she pictured it. During the Australian Academy of Cinema &amp;amp; Television Arts Awards in West Hollywood Friday night, the director told Us Weekly what the Oscar winner really thought about kissing him.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;&amp;apos;I finally get to make out with Christian Bale and he&amp;apos;s a really fat guy,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Russell recalled Lawrence, 23, saying while filming the crime drama. She said: &amp;quot;&amp;apos;He&amp;apos;s Fatman, not Batman.&amp;apos;&amp;quot; (In 2012, Bale showed off a much more muscular, toned physique when he played Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises.)\r\n\r\nBale, 39, went through a major transformation to land the role of con-artist Irving Rosenfeld in American Hustle. The English actor gained a noticeable amount of weight, and even exposed his new gut by wearing his shirt open in one particular scene. &amp;quot;The shocking thing is that Christian can charm ladies even with the comb over and the belly because it comes from confidence and heart,&amp;quot; Russell added.&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;quot;I want them to disappear -- and that excites them because they want to freak audiences out. And that&amp;apos;s what entertainment is right?&amp;quot; he continued of the stars&amp;apos; transformations in the film. &amp;quot;Having a character like, &amp;apos;Oh my God. I went into another world! Where was I?&amp;apos; That&amp;apos;s what he did. That&amp;apos;s what Jennifer did. Jennifer played a real housewife from Long Island. That&amp;apos;s what [Bradley] Cooper did. He played a Brooklyn FBI guy but a freak! And that&amp;apos;s what Amy Adams did when she played a split personality -- sexier than anybody ever thought the little princess from Enchanted could be.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nLawrence may have been snubbed from making out with &amp;quot;Batman,&amp;quot; but she does have her own beau to snuggle up to back home. &amp;quot;Nick&amp;apos;s good for her. He keeps her calm,&amp;quot; Russell was overheard saying at the star-studded event.\r\nThe Hunger Games star and Nicholas Hoult, 23, first met on the set of their 2010 film X-Men: First Class. They dated for two years before calling it off in January 2013, but rekindled the romance while shooting X-Men: Days of Future Past in July that year. The couple was recently spotted together in NYC on Nov. 21 when the British actor waited for Lawrence inside a limo after her appearance on The Daily Show With John Stewart."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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