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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:24:53 GMT
A thread to post any references, notices, praise, criticisms, etc from industry colleagues/contemporaries. Previously I had made this into a board, but I will be now collapsing it's 3 threads into this single thread under the Cool Bale Stuff board.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:25:40 GMT
Stephen Lang on reddit AMA: Bryce_Wade What are some actors/directors that you would like to work with? Also looking forward to Don't Breathe, looks fantastic
StephenLang Some of them are dead, haha. I would've loved to have worked with John Ford, Billy Wider, and John Ford, but that's not going to happen. I've been fortunate to work with people like Cameron and Michael Mann and once you work with them you just hope it continues. I haven't been directed by Spielberg, and I'd love to be in something with him. The masters, Scorsese. Peter Weir. Actors? Just wrapped a picture with Christian Bale and he's a wonderful guy. I'd love to do something romantic with some actresses... whomever it's appropriate for me to be with. Joan Allen, Meryl Streep. I have the grizzled tough-guy niche, and I never want to lose it, but I would like to explore the romantic side as well. Fede Alvarez is a seasoned magnificent director and on his second feature - I look for great things in his future. His confidence and friendship, and working with him developed some shorthand. Also just finished with Scott Cooper. The energy and intelligence of some of the younger directors is fun. When I get to work with my son Noah - a terrific producer - it's a pleasure. My other son Danny "The Duke" works behind the camera as well. When both of them are on a project with me - that's the best. I'm always excited to see a cast list, who's going to be on it. I was on a project with Ray Liotta and J Lo earlier this year, it was great. I want to work with anyone who wants to work with me. And Ryan Reynolds.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:26:16 GMT
Although he shared screen time with old mate, and fellow Aussie, Ben Mendelsohn in Exodus: Gods and Kings, the film's best sparks were struck when Edgerton and Christian Bale pared up. "Christian is a true transformer," offers Edgerton. "But a lot of people, based on one viral video of him having a tough time on set, decided that's he's a difficult due to work with. It's absolutely a lie. He's got one of the wickedest senses of humour I've ever encountered. He knows when to take the work seriously and when to have some fun. I'd go a second round with him in a heartbeat."
- Joel Edgerton, GQ Australia September/October 2015
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:28:15 GMT
Casey Affleck on working with CB in Out of the Furnace: With Christian [Bale], I hadn't worked in a few years and Kenny [Lonergan] was doing this play, which was called "The Medieval Play" which I had done a first act performance of, and it was one of the funniest things anyone has never seen. It really was one of my favorite things and I used to laugh on stage and Kenny would get very mad at me but I couldn't do the play without laughing because it was so funny.
Then he was gonna do it for a longer run, and I was -- as happens sometimes in my career -- broke. And I had to go do this movie instead of doing that. And I asked Kenny's permission if I could do that and he said of course go do that...So then I went to go do "Out of the Furnace" and Christian [Bale] was on that. And I had sort of forgotten a little bit of like what you're supposed to do on set-- It had been a couple of years. And I also stopped liking being in movies because of all the stuff surrounding it.
Then I was there with him and he just never has a false moment. You just look in his eyes and he seems like a real person who's really saying these things. He really cares about you or doesn't care about you, or whatever it is that he's supposed to be doing, and it was unnerving. So for the first few days I went home and felt terrible -- like a fraud. And then I sort of fell into the groove with him.
I remember saying to him on the first day, "I'm really sorry, man. I just feel totally lost in the scene." And he perked up and said, "Oh great! Lost is a really good thing to feel!" And I thought like, Ok, I"m in great hands with this guy. He's one of my favorites.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:29:06 GMT
Rosamund Pike on Bale: I was rejected from a number of drama schools before I went to university. It was devastating at the time. But I knew what I was. I was an actress and they could knock me down but they couldn’t knock that out of me. I wanted to prove them wrong. I made a film with Christian Bale over the summer and he told me he didn’t go to drama school either. I thought, here I am, sitting next to one of the greatest actors in the world and neither of us went to drama school. I thought back to all those people who rejected me and thought, well there you are, I’ve shown you wrong. Or maybe not – maybe they’re sitting thinking, why on earth is she getting all those roles, she’s *beep* But they never managed to crush me. www.bigissue.com/features/letter-to-my-younger-self/7154/rosamund-pike-interview-if-you-grew-up-without-money-yourAnd here: The 37-year-old actress - who previously worked with the actor in 2015's 'The Deep Blue Good-by' - revealed her on-screen co-star kept his distance when they were not filming in front of the camera.
She said: "He is intense in a wonderful way. We barely spoke off screen. He would keep a distance. Our characters in 'Hostiles' are quite dysfunctional but have this profound connection that we let happen without ever really talking about it."
And although the 'Gone Girl' star revealed the pair weren't close during the filming of the upcoming Western drama, Rosamund insisted she wouldn't rule out working with him again in the future.
She told the Metro newspaper: "I loved working with Christian because of this strange thing where we didn't really communicate, but yet I knew I could throw anything at him and he was just there. I would work with him again, any actress would."
www.list.co.uk/article/86624-rosamund-pike-and-christian-bale-barely-spoke-while-filming-hostiles/On Bale's being different: Pike has been working on getting a passion project off the ground for several years, in which she will play the lead. “It’s not easy casting the men,” she says. “You have to go gingerly but you have to approach the right man at the right time, because men don’t want to play second fiddle to a woman. That’s the truth. It’s sad, isn’t it? Christian [Bale] might be different – he’s a leading man who quite wants to be a supporting actor, and is quite unusual in that respect. But … ” A pause, then a resigned: “Yeah.” www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/23/rosamund-pike-interview-a-united-kingdom
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:29:51 GMT
Faye Dunaway likes Christian Bale! Asked to name her favorite actresses, Dunaway ticks off a generously long and wide-ranging list from Naomi Watts and Julianne Moore to Jennifer Lawrence and Melissa McCarthy. (There are a few actors too. "Christian Bale is amazing," she says. "And Bradley Cooper—wow.") www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a17429/faye-dunaway-interview/
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:30:32 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:31:15 GMT
High praise from Steven Spielberg! Christian Bale is as fearless now as he was at 12, says Steven Spielberg Award-winning director Steven Spielberg has revealed he takes pride in actor Christian Bale’s success.
Award-winning director Steven Spielberg has revealed he takes pride in actor Christian Bale’s, who has gone on to win an Oscar and star as Batman, success.
The 69-year-old worked with the Oscar-winning actor on the 1987 film Empire Of The Sun and Spielberg admits he has invested himself in Bale’s career ever since since, reported Female First.
“I take great pride in young actors who started off doing films with me and have then made careers for themselves,” Spielberg said.
“Nothing Christian Bale does has ever failed to impress me. He is fearless and he was fearless when he was 12 years old. I am impressed more and more with each role he takes. But in a quiet place in my own life I’ll say, “That’s my boy,” he added.From Hindustan Times.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:32:26 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:32:59 GMT
Bale's Drum Coach on FB: As some of you may know, I gave Christian Bale 6 or 7 drum lessons earlier this year in preparation for a few scenes in the movie, 'The Big Short,' which comes out in a few days. He was a fun guy and a good hang! I was invited to the screening at Paramount studios last night with my mom as my date:) Very cool! Go see the movie and look for my name in the credits! -SW
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:33:36 GMT
Photographer Terry O'Neill:
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:34:12 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:35:08 GMT
Kenneth Branagh on working with CB on Henry V:
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:36:06 GMT
There was a detailed discussion about CB on Finn Wittrock's interview on David Poland's DP30. Here is the video link.The following transcript was shared by shuntanux on IMDb: David Poland: Is there someone who has an ideal career as far as you're concerned? Finn Wittrock: Getting to know Christian Bale a little bit was really cool and thinking about... his career... is pretty awesome. He's a very respected actor, Oscar nominated. He was Batman, but you don't look at him and think "That's Batman!", necessarily, you know, you think of all the other great roles he's done as well. - He's also in the best Batmans there are. - But also... he's able to be in The Big Short and also in those big... [Exodus: Gods and Kings], and... he's able to do really mainstream and really artistic movies and be respected at both ways, so... DP: Box office and not. FW: Yeah, box office and not. DP: He's such an intense actor. FW: Yeah. DP: I assume you never saw him on The Big Short? FW: No. He was in, for like two weeks, in the office, before we ever got there. But I talked to the guy who he played... Michael Burry is his name. He really is considered... guys in finance are, like "Michael Burry!", he's on the pedestal, and... He said that Christian... they just sat down for hours, and he's like "I've never had someone look at me that hard." [laughs] They just had a conversation and Christian Bale never took his eyes off him. And then they never spoke again and he just went off and did it - and nails him, so... DP: What's interesting is that Christian had early on - well, not really early on when he was doing Empire Of The Sun, but as he became a young man he was kind of stuck in the good looking guy thing for a while... FW: Right. DP: ...before he... FW: Broke it off. DP: ...found a way to break into these much more serious roles. FW: Yeah. That's true. DP: Whether he was starving himself for [The Machinist] or whatever, he really found both places in a kind of interesting way, but it seems like a challenge for a handsome young man like yourself to do that. FW: It's hard to complain, because whenever you complain you sound like a real a55hole, but I do lose a lot of roles because of the way I look, you know, roles I really want and think are really interesting, but they're like "we can't have that guy be the nerdy best friend" - They don't know how nerdy I really am... but that really does happen and... not just have to be the leading man all the time, yeah it's a challenge. DP: I think 'nerdy best friend' is kinda like the way people break out. FW: [laughs] You do one good 'nerdy best friend' role and you're good.
[discussion about Ryan Gosling - both agree he has intentionally taken himself out of the good-looking-leading-man category, and that it's that other stuff what he's really interested in - they mention his roles in movies like Lars And The Real Girl and Half Nelson as examples - and that he could be a bigger star if he chose to and was interested in that, but it's "a burden he does not want" like DP puts it. FW notes Gosling's spray tan and wig in The Big Short as also part of image change and breaking out of the good looking guy thing.]
DP: He's like Christian with a bigger sense of humor. FW: [laughs] Yeah... I'd say... DP: Christian, I did an interview, and people were, like [in suspicious mumbling voice:] "ooo, what's he gonna say" - And he was completely great... FW: He's so funny. DP: ...and straightforward and funny and charming. As long as you're not fking with him he seems very happy. FW: Yeah. DP: When you poke at him he gets pissed off, but I guess it should be normal, right? FW: Yeah... I was at awards show and he was the funniest, most irreverent... so... But I heard also about that... [hesitates]... I guess it's okay to say... That big blowup that was on the internet, you know? Like... actually the guy he was yelling at had it coming. People were like... "That guy... I've wanted to say that to that guy before." He [=CB] just [FW snaps fingers] blew the fuse, but, you know, it's hard, you only get one side of it when you see what he's yelling, but you don't see what provoked it, and it could be, like, saying something legitimate. DP: Well, stuff happens on sets... FW: Yeah. DP: ...and in some ways when a little piece of it comes out it can look ridiculous and terrible and absurd... FW: Right. DP: ...and it's really unfair... FW: Yeah. DP: ...even the guy who had it coming, it's unfair to him, too. FW: Yeah, it is. DP: It's just not... It's the one time you see Christian Bale on the set and it's not representative of everything. FW: Definitely not. People on our movie only had good things to say about him. DP: And even with David O. Russell and Tomlin... FW: Yeah, that. DP: I mean, David is a little nuts, but Lily has forgiven him. FW: Yeah, yeah, they're okay. DP: People keep bringing it up again, but they're okay with it. FW: What happens on the set really should stay on the set. And there is often a heightened level of intensity that taken out of context looks crazy, but when you're there, you have to make a movie, you have to make your day, you have this huge operation, this machine has to be in place and people lose it sometimes, it's understandable, you know, it's an intensive environment.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:37:07 GMT
Bale and Fassbender are Matt Damon's two favorite actors in the world: @2:02
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