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Here are some great new pictures from the inside photo spread of Christian Bale in the June 2008 issue of Details. And here are some more highlights from the interview:
Taking the role of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho was widely regarded as career suicide. Yes. I always enjoyed the idea of self-destructing on purpose, taking something that was important to me—acting—and just becoming unhireable. To test how important it really was for me. [American Psycho] turned out to be the opposite. That brought me much more work.
Do you remember the last time you were [in danger of not making enough money to support yourself through acting]? [Long pause.] I know absolutely when it was; I’m just trying to decide how comfortable I am talking about it. Certainly . . . what year are we in? 2008? Only going back five years. Absolutely, yeah. House repossession—all that.
Have you ever done anything just for the money? Movies? Um . . . well, I guess there was one particular time—and I won’t tell you what it was—but it was following closely on the heels of the other thing that I didn’t want to talk about very much. It ended up that I found a great many experiences from it—but the motivation was completely keeping the head above water, yes.
How good do you think you are at being famous? I don’t really understand the question. Because there are people that you would undeniably call famous, and I’m not. You can go to many, many people and say “Christian Bale” and they have no idea who the hell you’re talking about. They might have seen a number of my movies, but they’ll still have no idea who you’re talking about. So I don’t think I’m qualified to talk about fame.
To read the full Bale interview, visit Details.com.
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I also loved him Little Women. I thought that he was cute then too.
his on and off weight loss is not healthy. Does he know that’s dangerous even if its for movies? no wonder he is aging fast.
his films outside Batman are flops i.e. Prestige,New World,Harsh Times etc….Public Enemies will do well because mainly due to the Depp factor.
Gotta love the Bale. He’s so refreshing compared to all those fake famewhore celebrities out there(coughcough). And to the deluded poster above: Bale gave brilliant performances in The Prestige, The New World and Harsh Times. He chooses movies because he loves the scripts not for any potential box office potential. By the way, not that it matters, but the Prestige opened at number one at the box office.
He is the greatest. I’d love to be able to just chat with him. Of course, I’d like more - but let’s be kind of realistic.
unfortunately, he’s got a wife…what a lucky girl!
I suppose so!
His first movie was (Speilberg’s) Empire of the Sun and I knew then (he was about 10 or 11 when he played the lead in that film) that he was going to be a great actor and probably a star.
He was fantastic in the Prestige and stole the show. Was great in 3:10 to Yuma as well. And Rescue Dawn - forgettabout it. He was absoulutely reviting in that one.
HATE HIM.
He looks like Orlando Bloom and a bit like Stephen Fry!
They must of modelled their look on him this is The Bale, The Mother ****** even Fry is the other way around
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