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Post by RhodoraO on Dec 28, 2020 17:44:48 GMT
Tracy Letts talks at length about working with Bale and Damon on FvF. Then the interviewer also mentions a nugget on working with the two stars from director James Mangold: www.goldderby.com/article/2019/tracy-letts-ford-v-ferrari-little-women-video-interview-transcript/"GD: You got to do a lot of scenes opposite Christian Bale and Matt Damon. Talk a bit about those collaborations. TL: It’s a little boring. We all got along so well. All the guys on this movie are dads, and dads of young kids. There was just no nonsense. Everybody got along so well, everybody’s very generous in all senses, generous with a compliment, generous as a scene partner, generous with their time. There was a real spirit of ensemble and generosity on the film. I know that bad behavior makes for better stories but the truth is that I’d always much rather be in a movie like this. Everybody’s great. Those guys have very different ways of working. I don’t know enough to say what their way is, I just know that it presents very differently when you’re acting opposite them. Matt appears as if he’s rolled out of bed, had a cup of coffee and walked onto the set ready to go. Now, I know that there’s more to his preparation than that, but that’s the way he presents to his scene partners and it’s great. Christian presents very differently. He’s in the thing. He is the guy the whole time that he’s on-set. Once you realize that, acknowledge that, you give him the space to do that. Again, it makes it so easy to act opposite him. They have different styles but they’re both such great actors. They’re not just great movie stars, charismatic movie stars. They are that too but they’re great actors. It’s a real pleasure. Like I said, a little boring, sorry. GD: Actually, I was at a Q&A for this movie and somebody asked Jim Mangold, did Christian and Matt get into a real-life race at the end of the movie and he said, “I wish I had a more exciting answer for that, but unfortunately no. All very cordial throughout the whole thing.”
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Post by RhodoraO on Dec 29, 2020 13:59:10 GMT
In a last year's feature on why Hanks is rarely nominated anymore, Anne Thompson interviewed a bunch of industry experts, and a Bale mention came up. Remember the following quote by a veteran marketing executive is for Hanks. Bale is mentioned as a contrasting example right along side Day-Lewis and DiCaprio: “He is a guy who has to campaign harder than he does,” wrote one veteran marketing executive. “He is considered a commercially successful actor — not someone who has driven their career by exclusively art choices the way Christian Bale, Leo DiCaprio, or Daniel Day-Lewis have. It is assumed that they choose a movie and a filmmaker for artistic credibility, where Hanks has that Spielberg thing: He is more broad. He will do things that are more widely entertaining." www.indiewire.com/2019/11/tom-hanks-a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-supporting-actor-oscars-1202190263/
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Post by RhodoraO on Dec 29, 2020 18:38:15 GMT
Caitriona Balfe on Bale: collider.com/caitriona-balfe-interview-ford-v-ferrari-outlander-season-5/BALFE: Christian is such an amazing performer and just such a genuinely lovely man. He’s a family guy. When you start chatting with him, you realize, “This guy’s such an amazing father and such an amazing husband." I guess I fed off that family man side of him and worked with that side.Interviewer: You a lot of stories about how intimidating and intense he can be when he works. Was that family man side of him something you found surprising? BALFE: I’m like everyone else: I had an idea of maybe what he was gonna be like. I walked into that film with the idea that I was gonna be very intimidated by both him and Matt [Damon]. Immediately, when you meet both of them [and] the first thing that struck me about both of them is that they’re just these great, humble family men. There was no ego or bravado. It was lovely. The very first day, It was like, “Oh, this is gonna be so sweet.” He’s such a generous actor, and he was really, really sweet with Noah and just lovely. I don’t know that it was surprising, but it was a lovely thing to find.
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Post by RhodoraO on Dec 30, 2020 23:43:04 GMT
From a podcast with Adam McKay talking about working for the first time with Bale in The Big Short (2015): www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/29184/oscar-week-podtalks-with-nominated-best-director-adam-mckay-on-his-filmmaker-philosophy"[Going in] I guess the guy I was nervous about was Christian Bale. Because I respect him like crazy. [Interviewer: Yeah] But then I'd have these phone conversations with him; and he was so smart and open and collaborative. And he just had these instincts that were fantastic. So every time we talked on the phone, I really enjoyed it. But then yeah, first day on the set, I was nervous [Interviewer giggles]. And then he jumps into character and I'm like this guys talks in our language, its all about collaboration, listening in the scene, getting grounded; and then immediately I was comfortable. Just the best time working together."
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 2, 2021 20:11:45 GMT
Can't remember if this Eddie Marson mention was ever recorded here or not. He played Paul Wolfowitz in Vice. To delete later if its a repeat: www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/19/eddie-marsan-interview-twitter-is-my-midlife-crisis"Q: What did you make of Christian Bale’s turn as Dick Cheney? Eddie Marsen: I was blown away by it. As an actor I could see how much work he put into it – the discipline, the hours in makeup, the weight he put on. He’s a very unshowy actor who just quietly gets on with his job and I admire that."
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 2, 2021 20:19:55 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 5, 2021 8:24:20 GMT
Just scored this lovely mention from Ethan Hawke back when he was doing all the press for First Reformed: thefilmstage.com/ethan-hawke-on-dreaming-of-a-fourth-before-film-why-hes-not-having-a-mcconaughey-moment-and-the-necessity-of-film-festivals/"It’s also strange to be 47 and also have been making movies for over thirty years. It’s a little rare actually. The other day I saw Christian Bale in a movie and I felt this sense of pride for him for how talented he is, what a good actor he is. I realized that the first time I was jealous of Christian Bale, I think I was 19. Because I had been the youngest client at my agency until they signed Christian Bale. There was this huge list. They represented Robert Redford, Paul Newman, blah blah blah, you know, Warren Beatty. And I was really proud to be on it, I was the youngest one. And the next year there was this other guy, younger guy, “Christian Bale,” who the hell’s that?! And I was like: aw shit, I’m never gonna forget him."
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 17, 2021 4:22:40 GMT
Daniel Radcliffe: "I once asked Christian Bale’s wife to tell Christian he was a big inspiration. She was on set one day and I said, “Will you tell him I think he’s f*cking great, please?” Because people always ask the ‘child actor’ question, referring to Macaulay Culkin and Corey Haim, but nobody ever mentions Christian Bale, Elijah Wood, Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman... Plenty of successful actors started young. But I guess when you’re a kid in a big franchise, people expect things to go south." www.shortlist.com/news/daniel-radcliffe
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 17, 2021 6:25:47 GMT
Ansel Elgort: "I'm still starstruck by: "The guys who have some mystery behind them, like Christian Bale, Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio. And any basketball player. I can't even talk to them. They're like aliens; they're from a different planet." www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/next-gen-talent-2016-hollywoods-up-coming-actors-35-under-945056--- Also: ""But my favorite actors are the guys who are both leading men and character actors: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Joaquin Phoenix." www.toronto.com/whatson-story/7374492-ansel-elgort-is-easy-to-hate-/--- "I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.'" [I suspect he said this in a print magazine because there is no online interview attached to this. However, it is a very common find on quote websites. www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ansel_elgort_710555 --- "I have a lot of man crushes, guys I look up to. I have a man crush on Tom Hardy, and also Christian Bale." and "which also brings into question who I want to be when I’m older — I wanna be badass and cool, so Christian Bale." www.buzzfeed.com/kristinharris/things-we-learned-on-set-with-ansel-elgort---
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 19, 2021 23:33:31 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 25, 2021 7:03:21 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 25, 2021 18:10:36 GMT
From an old reflection of year's best performances (2013) by WSJ's film critic Joe Morgenstern. It is a more of a general mention, hence I'm posting it here: www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304591604579290271337679730"The movie [American Hustle] represents yet another transformation for Mr. Bale, whose chameleon qualities defy description—formidably intense as the Dark Knight, rail-thin and vengeful as the mill worker in "Out of the Furnace," flabby and hilarious as larcenous Irving. There was one Christian Bale performance for which I literally had no words. Some years ago I was in pre-op, just drifting into the pleasant limbo of anesthesia for a meniscus repair when the anesthesiologist, an avowed movie nut, said urgently, "Wait, I forgot to ask, is 'Rescue Dawn' worth seeing?" I wanted to tell him it was, if only for Mr. Bale's work, but I couldn't get a syllable out of my lips."
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 26, 2021 6:23:54 GMT
Unearthed these priceless mentions by Michael Caine today! During an interview in 2007 for his movie Slueth he was asked about the upcoming TDK. In reference to Bale, he said: www.liveabout.com/michael-caine-discusses-the-dark-knight-2430503"Oh yeah, I've seen all the Batman, mens, men. I've seen them all. I think by a long way, Christian is the best Batman I've ever seen. He certainly is the best actor, a wonderful actor, as he's proven in Yuma now, and in The Machinist. What was the other one he was in between, where he played [the POW]? Rescue Dawn, that's the one. That's a wonderful performance.”
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 28, 2021 4:57:07 GMT
Sam Claflin: www.thegentlemansjournal.com/sam-claflin/"You see some actors play the same part in different movies and a part of me said “no”. The actors I admire are people such as Christian Bale, who literally transform themselves from job to job. I’m looking to build up to that."
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Post by RhodoraO on Jan 31, 2021 1:20:48 GMT
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