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Christian Bale sits down with The Today Show’s Matt Lauer to talk about the upcoming summer blockbuster, The Dark Knight, opening this Friday. Here’s a snippet of the interview:
So much was made of Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker. It was such a dark role. In some way, perhaps, do you think in real life, it caused him to slip across some line of reality and may have had some role in his accidental death? Personally, I find it to be a complete lack of understanding of acting. I also find it very rude to try to create some kind of sound bite for such a tragedy. The man was a complex man, a good man, but you know what? I saw him having the best time playing The Joker. He was someone who completely immersed himself in his role. As do I. But in the end of the day, he was having a wonderful time doing it, He couldn’t have been happier doing it.
Watch Bale’s interview below!
Christian Bale - The Today Show, 7/14
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WTF was up with his accent?!
He’s British!
Great interview.
Im going to a screening this Wed!
he’s a little snippy–i love it.
he tries to maintain his american accent when doing press for american characters. but sometimes he slips into his british accent, which he was doing halfway here.
Cant wait to see!
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He’s always had a friggin odd accent! He’s welsh for a start! That says it all!
he’s keeping the american accent while promoting tdk to not draw any attention away from the film.
You all go rent American Psycho.
Then tell us here if you like Christian Bale *).
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz . He’s a jerk but the real talent is Robert Downey Jr.
Many men said they wonna be like Tony Stark because he is fun unlike boring brooding Bruce Wayne by Bale.
HAHAHA. @34 You obviously know nothing about Bruce Wayne because if you did you would know he’s far from boring.
@33 I’ve seen American Psycho and I still love Bale…
I wonder how Christian doesn’t get confused with all the accents he’s done. I love his Welsh accent and he shouldn’t try to suppress it with an American one. I can understand the marketing aspect, it’s just a shame.
Hey I just remembered that he’s just finished doing that gangster movie “public enemies” with Johnny Depp and that’s probably why his accent sounds odd. lol
I love, and always have, Christian Bale….what a phenomenal actor! Lowkey, humble guy who is all about the craft. I have total respect for him.
AND we share the same birthday. ;-)
I watched American Psycho just the other day. I own a copy. It’s the one to make you rate Bale. I like it: DIE YUPPIE SCUM . HAAAA HA!
Some of the stuff in this interview was put interestingly by him back, pretending to be stuck on the very intention of the process of soundbite invention and that bat cycle makes him look really cool. So it’s ok to have that ‘pretending to be stuck on things’ vibe cos it’s a TV studio probably. He should grow his hair and look like Patrick Bateman again and stop trying to look so damn cool and a natural American.
I love this man.
And what’s with comments about how he should ‘lighten up’ with his choice of roles? What are you people smoking? He takes on roles that are challenging, and good for him.
Good to see someone responding to a question that has lingered around all year, but it could be understandable why people would think that, I was completely drawn in the character. But it’s just magazines trying to make up a big story.
Anyway, everyone should go see the Dark Knight, you won’t regret it, and I’m so glad I won tickets to see it last night, it was worth waiting through security.
“NO RENAME THIS MOVIE
THE JOKER.. WHY CALL IT BATMAN”
Isn’t this the first Batman movie without Batman in the title? The movie is called The Dark Knight, and although Batman is the Dark Knight, the Joker is a huge part of the movie. God, it sounds like you’re the one on drugs.
Just love Bale! Great actor… and so cute!
Yes!
god, the accent is really putting me off, imagine being married to someone like that, who changes their accent according to whatever ****** movie they are in at the time, he’s not doing a very good job of a NY accent,
Christian Bale is a very good actor and seems to be a nice modest guy. Such a fresh air in Hollywood.
I wonder what amount of money from Batman will go to the Ledger estate. I suspect his contract included a share in the profits. It might be a whole lot of money. Too bad he can’t be around to enjoy it. Sad. I just watched Brokeback again and marvel at how good he was in that. A truly GREAT actor gone forever. Tragic.
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