Christian Bale

Thor: Love and Thunder star Christian Bale has reflected on working with Marvel Studios, admitting that he struggled to play Gorr the God Butcher while ...

"That would’ve been a pitiful attempt to do that," the Oscar-winner says. We're hoping Bale will eventually elaborate on how he feels about his scenes with Jeff Goldblum and Peter Dinklage being cut, but green screen aside, it certainly doesn't sound like he hated his time in the MCU. The requirements of a big budget movie like Thor: Love and Thunder clearly weren't for Bale, though we are surprised he didn't take some enjoyment out of seeing The Volume utilised on set. I couldn’t even differentiate one stage from the next." But you’re on Stage Seven.' 'Which one is that?' 'The blue one.' I was like, 'Uh, where?'" Thor: Love and Thunder introduced one of the God of Thunder's most fearsome villains in Gorr the God Butcher, and with Christian Bale playing him, fans had high hopes.

Christian Bale, who played Batman for three movies, says he wouldn't have minded being typecast as the brooding superhero for the rest of his career.

And then I said to myself, and I'd only ever make it with Chris." "I loved that because I was like, 'This could be it. The 1987 Steven Spielberg film Empire of the Sun propelled him to prominence as a 13-year-old, but it also invited bullying at school and pressure at a young age. He has also been vocal about how few films he consumes, and said earlier this year that he hasn't That’s great.' And I’m going off to Ralphs, the supermarket, to get bananas." And that’s doing very well over there, I hear.

Academy Award winner Christian Bale joked that he only got his roles in major films because Leonardo DiCaprio passed up on them first.

"I mean, I can’t do what he does. "It doesn’t matter what anyone tells you. "Look, to this day, any role that anybody gets, it’s only because he’s passed on it beforehand," Bale replied.

Christian Bale details why he was game for the challenge of playing Batman in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, despite potential typecasting.

Bale has more than proven that the hero will be merely one of many roles he's remembered for in future retrospectives. Beyond that superficial aspect, he inhabits his roles with an intense emotional commitment, lending the same gravity to playing a soldier interred in a Vietnamese POW camp in Rescue Dawn that he does to playing a villain in a highly stylized Marvel movie like Thor: Love and Thunder. Val Kilmer was at the peak of his popularity from his heartthrob days in Top Gun and Willow, as well as his dramatic turn as Jim Morrison in the biopic The Doors, when he joined Joel Schumacher's campier take. There's the oft-publicized facets of his intense method acting that tabloids love to focus on, such as Like Bale, George Clooney was relatively untested as a film star when he took over from Kilmer for Batman & Robin, mostly riding the immense popularity of his role in ER, but Clooney's post-Batman career skyrocketed him to the A-list. [Batman](https://screenrant.com/tag/batman/) after Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.

Christian Bale at the premiere of Thor: Love And Thunder (Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images). Christian Bale has admitted he found one particular ...

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Bale recalled how his youngest child, Joseph, struggled to stay in his seat during a screening of the 2017 blockbuster in an interview with GQ. "I took my son ...

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.' I was just like, 'I want to finish it.'" Bale added that his enjoyment of Thor: Ragnarok was what led him to sign on for its sequel, Thor: Love and Thunder, coupled with the potential he saw in his character, Gorr the God Butcher. [filming Thor: Love and Thunder](https://www.cbr.com/chris-hemsworth-christian-bale-too-r-rated-thor-4-mcu/) in an earlier interview, praising director Taika Waititi for allowing him to push the envelope with his performance. "'Have him be skinny and waiflike and apparently no match for Thor.'" It’s got to be shadow monsters and dark matter powers." The Oscar-winning actor noted that this meant his portrayal of Gorr occasionally strayed into potentially R-rated territory, which his co-star Chris Hemsworth reminded him wasn't a good fit for the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie's target audience. "He was climbing like a monkey all across [the seats] and then he was like, 'Oh, I’ve had enough now, let's get on [home].' I was like, 'No, no, no.

Adams claimed in 2016 that the director made her cry 'most days' and that she was 'devastated' on set.

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Actor Christian Bale, known and admired for his role as Batman in The Dark Knight trilogy, has won many hearts in his illustrious career in Hollywood, ...

He goes on to say how he would like to work with people who do what they are doing for themselves, before trying to please anyone else. Especially the fact that it is something he “can just go too far with.” Christian Bale has gained significant recognition for the work he has done in his career, including two golden globe awards. He said he acknowledged the fact that he might never get to be something other than Batman for many people and that he was okay with it. He recalls people telling him that if he plays Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, he could never be known as anything else, they also advised him the same for playing Batman. However, he goes on to say that he loved his role as The Dark Knight.

Christian Bale has had a wide, varied career since his early breakout as a kid actor in Steven Spielberg's 1987 film “Empire Of The Sun.

So, his role as Wayne in Nolan’s Batman films are a bit of an anomaly in his career, but one lots of film fans are grateful for. His recent turn as Gorr the God-Butcher in “Thor: Love And Thunder” is a good example of that. In fact, the actor, known for his intense commitment to his performances, was afraid he’d be stuck playing Batman for the rest of his career. That’s great.’ And I’m going off to Ralphs, the supermarket, to get bananas.” Bale is obviously playing it humble here, because even if he’s going to the store for groceries like everybody else, he remains forever connected to Nolan’s films (and he made millions of dollars making them, too). “I was like, ‘Ah, maybe I’m going to be forced to go do something different.’ And maybe this fucking thing [acting] that I got forced into doing as a kid that I didn’t fucking want to do in the first place, I’m out. Christian Bale has had a wide, varied career since his early breakout as a kid actor in Steven Spielberg‘s 1987 film “Empire Of The Sun.” But what performance of Bale’s do moviegoers find ubiquitous with the actor?

Christian Bale has starred in several major films over his career. So what does Leonardo DiCaprio have to do with it? Well, if you ask Bale, he'll argue ...

[The Dark Knight](https://www.eonline.com/news/276416/the-dark-knight-rises-secrets-revealed) and [The Big Short](https://www.eonline.com/news/727504/the-big-short-why-you-shouldn-t-feel-intimidated-by-this-2016-best-picture-oscar-nominee) to [The Machinist](https://www.eonline.com/news/1091112/christian-bale-insists-he-s-done-with-dramatic-weight-transformations) and [American Hustle](https://www.eonline.com/news/491079/american-hustle-5-ways-the-american-dream-thrives-in-the-70s). And last year, he filmed three different movies: The Pale Blue, [Amsterdam](https://www.eonline.com/news/1336991/taylor-swifts-appearance-in-the-star-studded-amsterdam-trailer-will-leave-you-breathless) and [Thor: Love and Thunder](https://www.eonline.com/news/thor). Have tunnel vision about what you're doing, not think about the effect you're having." "So, thank you, Leo, because literally, he gets to choose everything he does," he continued. "You don't get the good parts. It's been [reported](https://www.indiewire.com/2020/04/american-psycho-leo-dicaprio-patrick-bateman-1202224972/) that DiCaprio was originally tied to the 2000 film before Bale was cast as Patrick Bateman. I wouldn't want the exposure that he has either. I had one of those people actually tell me that." It's not just me," he said. "Look, to this day, any role that anybody gets, it's only because he's passed on it beforehand. All those people that I've worked with multiple times, they all offered every one of those roles to him first. In fact, GQ writer Zach Baron said it's been [rumored](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christian-bale-biography-batman-titanic_n_1557666) that Bale has lost several roles to DiCaprio, including the part of Jack Dawson in [Titanic](https://www.eonline.com/news/titanic).