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| | Christian Bale still hasn't seen Ben Affleck's Batman or any of the Marvel films | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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At some point, I just stopped caring about rating the various Batmans I?ve seen throughout my life. I liked Michael Keaton?s Batman, I thought Val Kilmer?s and George Clooney?s Batmans sucked, and I generally thought Christian Bale was effective as Christopher Nolan?s super-grim take on the Bat franchise. Can we all agree that Ben Affleck?s Batman was and is pretty sh-tty though? The Batfleck was not helped at all by the direction or the story, to be clear, so it?s not ALL on him. But still? the Batfleck might be the worst. So bad, in fact, that Christian Bale can?t even thinly veil his disgust! No, I?m overselling this. Bale isn?t disgusted, he just threw some excellent shade on the Batfleck.
Christian Bale, the Dark Knight of Christopher Nolan?s Batman trilogy, still hasn?t seen Ben Affleck?s performance as the Caped Crusader. He mentioned that he?ll ?certainly see it? at some point, but he seems in no rush to make it happen.
?I have not [seen Ben Affleck?s Batman],? the Hostiles actor said during an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with MTV?s Josh Horowitz. ?Yes, I?m interested [in seeing it], my son seemed like he was really interested, but then I realized he just wanted to see the trailer and that was it. And, you know, I tend to go see films that [my kids] want to see.?
Even though Bale starred in some of the most lauded superhero films of all time, he confessed he?s not a big superhero movie fan. ?People seem surprised at that, I don?t know why, but I?ve not seen any of the Avengers films or any of those films at all,? he said. ?I hear they?re very good, but I?m quite happy just hearing they?re very good.?
[From EW]
I feel like Bale feels a little snotty – and it?s well-deserved snottiness – about the quality of the films he did with Christopher Nolan. Even if I had issues with the grimness, the darkness, the general storytelling of the Nolan franchise, they were GOOD movies, full of interesting and award-worthy performances. Bale has had the best – why would he give a sh-t about the rest? I love this though: ?my son seemed like he was really interested, but then I realized he just wanted to see the trailer and that was it.? That?s basically the current business model at Warner Bros. ?Cut a good trailer and don?t worry about the actual movie.?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Christian Bale seems to think that romantic comedies are beneath him | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I don?t give Matthew McConaughey a lot of credit for most things, but I?ll give him this: he is good at being a romantic lead. So is Keanu Reeves, so is Tom Hanks, so is Colin Firth, so is Hugh Grant, so is Kumail Nanjiani. Those are actors who are great as ?falling in love on-screen.? They are open to having great chemistry with a leading lady. This used to be a given with actors: they would need to be good at romance on-screen. But it?s fallen by the wayside over time, concurrent with the rise of superhero films, honestly. Few major actors these days are open to playing romantic leads or even reading romantic-comedy scripts. Christian Bale is one of those actors. It?s weird, because he?s so talented, I think he would be great at anything he wanted to do. But when asked about doing a rom-com, he scoffed and dissed the whole genre, like rom-coms are beneath him. He also said a lot of sh-t about why he loves to do those drastic physical transformations and more in this Guardian interview:
How he gained weight to play Dick Cheney: ?I ate a lot of pies? I?ve got to stop doing it. I suspect it?s going to take longer to get this off. These pants are one of the few pairs I?ve got that have these straps on the side so I can still fit into ?em.? A fluctuating waistline, he says, has consequences. ?I?m not big on shopping, so you end up with a lot of elasticated things.?
Why he?s obsessed with transforming for roles: ?There is a much easier way, but I can?t do it. I don?t know if it?s because I don?t have any training. I see actors who can just be themselves and then switch and give these really incredible performances, and then switch back to being themselves. I find I start laughing because I?m too aware that it?s still me. So I try to get as distant as possible. Otherwise, I can?t do it? It?s helpful not to look like yourself. If I look in the mirror and go, ?Ah, that doesn?t look like me,? that?s helpful.?
When he lost all of that weight for The Machinist: ?It?s an amazing experience doing that. When you?re so skinny that you can hardly walk up a flight of stairs ? you?re, like, this being of pure thought. It?s like you?ve abandoned your body. That?s the most Zen-like state I?ve ever been in my life. Two hours sleep, reading a book for 10 hours straight without stopping ? unbelievable. You couldn?t rile me up. No rollercoaster of emotions.? Alas, it doesn?t last. ?As soon as you start putting the food back in your stomach, the rollercoaster comes back.?
White patriarchy: ?Everything is run by old white men. The richness that we could all enjoy if we started embracing a much wider variety of sources of storytelling from women, from minorities.?
The Weinstein scandal: ?I can?t see that this will become a footnote and be swept under the rug. It does feel like it will change…Some people might call me almost reclusive. Nobody gossips with me. I was clueless. If I?m not making a film, I don?t really socialise with that many people who make films. The casting couch, yes, I?d heard of that. But specifics? No, nothing at all. Do I believe that it has all been happening? Absolutely.?
Whether he would consider doing a romantic comedy: Bale bats the question back with what sounds like a challenge. ?Have you ever enjoyed a romantic comedy?? I pause and he presses the point. ?Have you ever enjoyed a romantic comedy?? A few, I say, but my mind blanks. ?Can you name ?em?? Er, When Harry Met Sally. ?That?s going back quite a ways, isn?t it? You?re hard pressed.? He shakes his head. ?I was asked to do a romantic comedy recently and I thought they?d lost their minds. Cats have those insane half hours every evening. I think it must have been that for the production company. I don?t know why anyone would ever offer me a romantic comedy. I find American Psycho very funny.?
[From The Guardian]
I have the feeling that Leonardo DiCaprio probably thinks the same thing about rom-coms at this point too – like, ?why would I bother to ?fall in love? on-screen with some 30-something woman when the ?real acting? is getting groped by a CGI bear?!?? This is part of male fragility too, let?s face it: actors like Bale and DiCaprio think that being romantic or funny or both is somehow ?less than? play-acting hypermasculinity. Or maybe I?m just overanalyzing and Bale is just critical of how few good romances and romantic comedies there are these days. But why do I think that if Ghost Nora Ephron made a baby with Richard Curtis and that baby wrote the most brilliant, touching and funny rom-com script, Bale still wouldn?t want it?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Christian Bale: Our culture will be richer when white dudes stop running everything | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Christian Bale at the mid-December premiere of his new film, Hostiles. Hostiles is well-reviewed – it?s a Western, and Bale plays a ?legendary Army captain? who ?reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.? Bale is currently thicc because he gained a bunch of weight to play Dick Cheney. I sort of enjoy Thicc Bale, although his bleached eyebrows are killing my soul a little bit. Anyway, Christian Bale wants us to know that he?s not a Matt Damon. Bale is not going to cry ?but what about all the men who don?t rape women, where?s their medal?!? Bale is not going to #AllLivesMatterEspeciallyWhiteBroLives anyone. Bale apparently thinks we need to stop letting white dudes run the place.
Promoting his new film Hostiles on the AOL Build web-series, Bale said that the fabric of the United States can only work for the positive when it embraces its diversity.
“Our culture will be so much richer the day that we stop saying, ‘Hey, it’s all white dudes who are running things,’” Bale said. “Whether that be Hollywood, whether that be Washington, you know. We’re going to get, in Hollywood, so much better films and so much more interesting stories being told and America will become the America that the rest of the world sees it as, that makes it unique.”
He added that being born and raised in the UK and moving to the US has enabled him an outsider’s perspective on what makes the country so welcoming.
“As an Englishman, we recognise what makes this such a beautiful, brilliant country and [how] not to ruin that,” he said. “It’s the reason I moved here. It’s the reason my kids have American accents. It’s because… it’s a country of inclusion and invitation.”
[From The Telegraph]
Most sites are running this story as ?Christian Bale says our culture would be ?so much richer? when we stop white dudes.? But is he really saying that? I think he is saying that, it?s just awkwardly worded. In any case, at least Bale is smart enough to just leave it at that and not try to act like white dudes are somehow being unfairly maligned or marginalized in any way. I doubt Bale is the wokest dude on the planet, but hey? he?s better at this than Matt Damon. F–k it, give him a medal.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Christian Bale looks buff & hairy in New Orleans: would you hit it? | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Christian Bale and his incredibly ripped arms pushed a baby carriage through the New Orleans airport on Saturday. He’s in town to shoot The Big Short. At first I didn’t recognize him at all! Bale’s hair has grown a lot since the disastrous Exodus promotional tour, and he put on a lot of muscle very quickly. This is one of Bale’s very favorite things to do — gain or lose weight in between movie shoots. He snaps when people comment on his weight fluctuations, but Bale willingly transforms his body for movies all the time. The look is much more preferable than his dangerously skinny bod of yesteryear. Are you impressed with Bale’s new guns? I’d hit it.
Here’s the strange thing — Bale doesn’t need to be ripped at all for The Big Short. The movie, which will co-star Brad Pitt, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling, arrives with the following synopsis: “The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.” The story comes from the book of the same name. Bale plays Dr. Michael Burry, a former neurologist and hedge-fund mastermind who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome. Vanity Fair published an engrossing profile of Burry in 2010 – you can see a photo of him at the link. He’s an attractive guy but not the buff type. Up next, Bale plays a detective in The Deep Blue Good-By, which doesn’t sound like a muscly role either. So what’s up with the new weightlifting routine, Bale?
What’s even more confusing are the first set photos from The Big Short. The stylists covered up Bale’s muscles, made him wear an awful, short wig, and piled on the orange makeup. The results are … not good.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News & Fame/Flynet
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| | Christian Bale defends 'Exodus' casting: indies should make 'the change' first | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are photos from the NYC premiere of Exodus: Gods and Kings. Yesterday, I touched briefly upon the controversy swirling around this movie. Some of it has to do with Bale popping off and alienating the film’s target audience with his observations of the Moses character. The even messier business has to do with the ongoing kertuffle over the film’s casting. Ridley Scott previously made comment upon how there’s no way to get a blockbuster movie financed in Spain (for tax rebates) and “say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such.” This was how Ridley justified using lighter-skinned actors in roles that could/should have been filled with darker-skinned actors.
Hollywood has well-established history of culturally unsound casting methods. This won’t change until a blockbuster director finally takes a stand. Christian Bale believes differently. The first quote sounds terrible, and I think it’s his use of the word “suffer” that really tips the scales. The second quote places the burden of change upon not studios but indie filmmakers:
Bale to ET: “Ridley?s point, which I think is a good one, is what does an Egyptian look like? Especially at that time when this was the empire, so it would be a crossroads of Europe and the Middle East and Africa, and he cast accordingly. I don?t know the fact that I was born in Wales and suffer with this skin that can?t deal with the sun should dictate that Ridley should say, ‘In that case, he’s not the right man to play the role.’ I did the best that I can. I?m certainly not going to pass it up. It?s a hell of a role.”
Bale to Hollywood Reporter: “I don’t think you can make any religious adaptation without heckles being raised somewhere, that’s the nature of it. It would absolutely be a wonderful day of celebration if, within a few decades, we have another Moses and he’s a North African or Middle Eastern actor — what a wonderful thing. Ridley [Scott] is absolutely honest and blunt to a fault, and I think that people, rather than pointing fingers, should ask themselves, are they being supportive of North African and Middle Eastern filmmakers and actors? … The change will come from independent filmmaking, but audiences have to be there. Because once that happens, financiers of bigger and bigger budget films will say, ‘We can actually do business here.’”
[From Entertainment Tonight & Hollywood Reporter]
Bale just can’t stop digging that hole. He can’t shut his mouth on this subject even though nothing good has come from his thoughts on the Exodus casting matter. He’s also defensive about taking the Moses role, which I sort of understand because Bale is so neurotic about delivering in any role. But Bale passes the buck by saying indie filmmakers must be the pioneers to change the way Hollywood casts culturally sensitive roles. Blockbusters can’t won’t take that risk, according to both Ridley and Chrstian. Nope.
Movie stills courtesy of 20th Century Fox; photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
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| | Christian Bale 'stared into nothing for 30 minutes' about the Batfleck news | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are photos of Christian Bale with his wife, Sibi, at the Madrid premiere and photocall for Exodus: Gods and Kings. I was going to include last night’s NYC photos too, but they’re exactly the same (except Sibi is wearing black instead of blue). Bale is in a furry phase, which is nice if you like him that way. I prefer him shaved.
Bale’s been getting into some trouble while promoting this movie, which didn’t need any help trashing itself. Ridley Scott already made controversial remarks about race and the casting process, and Rupert Murdoch backed up Ridley. When Rupert agrees with someone, that’s usually not a good sign. Opponents organized a #BoycottExodusMovie hashhag. This certainly isn’t the first movie to cast in a culturally insensitive manner, and it won’t be the last. That sucks.
Bale’s been doing his part to distract with his own alienating quotes. Oh, who am I kidding? He’d be doing this no matter what. Kaiser already talked about how Bale called Moses “troubled, schizophrenic, and barbaric.” Last week, religious scholars called Bale out again.
Anyway. Bale calmed down a little bit to talk about losing the Batman role. He famously decided not to play Batman again after Christopher Nolan’s last turn at directing the neurotic superhero. When it comes to Bale, nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Bale held a secret torch for Batman, and he grew a little melodramatic when Ben Affleck’s casting was announced:
Why Bale left Batman: “[Batman is] a character that could have kept on going and going and going. It was right for Nolan to finish it where he did and ours doesn’t belong in any other version at all. It was appropriate to leave at the right time.”
When Bale heard that Batfleck was cast:: “When I heard there was someone else doing it, there was a moment where I just stopped and stared into nothing for half an hour.”
[From Empire via Screenrant]
I laughed for far too long at the vision of Bale dropping his whole life to stare into the distance for 30 minutes over Batfleck. He doesn’t say anything bad about Ben Affleck as Batman, but you can tell Bale was crushed. I’m enjoying this Batman-on-Batman gossip cycle, by the way. Outlets want to make it seem like Michael Keaton threw shade at Batfleck when he really didn’t. Bale did effectively shade George Clooney, but I’m not sure that counts as Bat-on-Bat drama. Does it? Clooney was the worst Batman. He shouldn’t count.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
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| | Christian Bale Jumps Ship From Steve Jobs Biopic | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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He was all set to play Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming project but now Christian Bale has pulled out of the part.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the ?Dark Knight Rises? hunk ?came to the conclusion that he was not right for the part,? prompting him to withdraw.
Now that Bale is out, director Danny Boyle will need to find another lead actor capable of carrying the weight of the role. Leonardo DiCaprio previously turned down the job as well.
Meanwhile, Seth Rogen has supposedly been offered the gig as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak however nothing has been made official.
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| | Christian Bale thinks Moses was 'troubled, schizophrenic, barbaric' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we know, Ridley Scott has decided to get into the Old Testament business. Scott made Exodus: Of Gods and Kings? with nearly an all-white cast. Christian Bale plays Moses and Joel Edgerton plays Rhamses. The film looks like a total mess, but I?m a bad judge of Biblical epics for the most part (they make me sleepy). I?m not really sure why Bale thought it would be a good idea to take on the role of Moses, but there?s a possibility that he just wanted to work with Ridley Scott, maybe. Because in recent comments, it sounds like Bale doesn?t think much of Moses.
On his role as Moses, Christian Bale recently made it plain to reporters in Los Angeles that he wasn’t playing Moses as the benevolent old leader we remember from Charlton Heston’s portrayal. “I think the man was likely schizophrenic and was one of the most barbaric individuals that I ever read about in my life,” the forty-year-old star said. “He’s a very troubled and tumultuous man who fought greatly against God, against his calling. He was a very troubled, tumultuous man and mercurial. But the biggest surprise was the nature of God. He was equally very mercurial “
[From Christianity Today & The Mail]
As you can imagine, Bale?s comments are now a thing. The studio had hoped to tap into the Evangelical Christian community?s hunger for more Biblical films but now most communities of faith (Christian and Jewish) are like, ?Ugh, really?? One writer, Brian Godawa, summarizes the conflict:
?It?s accurate to portray Moses as an imperfect hero, so Christians won?t take issue with that,? he said. ?But to be so extreme as to call him one of the most barbaric people in history, that sounds like he?s going out of his way to distance himself from the very people you?d think he wants to appeal to. It tells me that he?s worried about Hollywood peer approval while looking down on the public, because he certainly doesn?t want to be associated with the religious or the far right.?
[From THR]
Ha, Hollywood peer approval. To be fair to Hollywood, I doubt many executives really care about a theological debate on the nature of Moses. All they care about is $$$ and now Bale might have alienated a built-in fanbase for the film. Classic Bale.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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| | Christian Bale & wife Sibi Blazic welcomed a baby boy' at some point, recently | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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During the awards season earlier this year, Christian Bale kept one of the lowest profiles I?ve ever seen from a major awards contender. Part of it, I?m sure, was that Bale really didn?t want another Oscar (he already has one for The Fighter). But part of it was probably that his wife Sibi Blazic was a few months pregnant and neither of them wanted to make a huge baby parade about it. Sibi didn?t hide her bump, but there was no ?OMG, you?re having a baby!? press that usually comes with a celebrity pregnancy. Anyway, after the awards season was done, Christian and Sibi went back to being pretty undercover (save for a couple of candid pap shots). Which might explain why I sort of forgot that Sibi was pregnant. And now Christian and Sibi have welcomed their second child ? a little boy!
Baby Bale is here! American Hustle star Christian Bale is a dad for the second time after he and wife Sibi recently welcomed their second child, his rep confirms to PEOPLE.
The couple are proud parents to a son, a source tells PEOPLE. No further details are available.
The notoriously private couple are already parents to a 9-year-old daughter.
Although the pair never addressed the pregnancy, they didn?t need to after the actor?s wife debuted her baby belly while walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards in March.
Bale, 40, and Sibi, a former model and makeup artist, were later spotted out for a stroll in May, with the mom-to-be showing off her burgeoning bump.
[From People]
They?re not even saying when Sibi gave birth! It was probably several days ago. Or a week or two ago. And considering how many outlets are confirming this, I?d say that Bale ordered his rep to merely confirm that the birth happened and that?s it. I would love to know this baby?s name, but Christian and Sibi seem to have decent-ish taste in names ? their daughter is named Emmeline, and I could swear that he?s referred to her with some kind of nickname like Em or Emme. We?ll see. Actually, it will probably be a year or more before we find out the kid?s name.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Christian Bale is in talks to play a 'salvage consultant' in the 1960s: eh' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Christian Bale out and about with his family from the end of June. His wife Sibi is knocked up ? there?s like a nine-year split between their first child, Emmeline, and this baby. I always think it?s interesting when parents do that, when they have that big of an age gap between siblings. I imagine it works out pretty well ? less competition between siblings and the older sibling takes on more of a parental role to the younger sibling.
Anyway, there?s some Bale news going around, so let?s get to it. Bale is in talks to play some kind of salvage expert/hustler and lady?s man:
Christian Bale is in early talks to star as Travis McGee in Fox?s adaptation of ?The Deep Blue Goodbye.? While there is no official offer, Bale has agreed to come on to star, and an offer should be coming shortly. James Mangold just closed his deal to direct with Chernin Entertainment, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson-Killoran producing for Appian Way along with Amy Robinson.
Written by John D. MacDonald in 1964, the book is the first in a series of 21 that followed McGee, a self-described ?salvage consultant? who recovers others? property for a fee and along the way gets into trouble fighting bad guys and wooing women.
Dennis Lehane penned the script with Scott Frank working on the most recent draft. Bale, Fox and Chernin recently worked together on ?Exodus: Gods and Kings,? which bows on Dec. 12.
[From Variety]
Will it be set in the 1960s? Because that might be interesting. If it?s set in the modern day, it?s just going to be like The History Channel?s American Pickers. Which, admittedly, is an AWESOME show. I get stuck on American Pickers marathons all the time! (Like last night.)
And finally, the trailer for Exodus: Gods and Kings was released last week. Christian Bale as Moses? Eh. But I am interested in this because Ridley Scott directed it. You know it will be visually interesting, at the very least.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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