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Christian Bale partly based Patrick Bateman on Tom Cruise while preparing American Psycho (2000). Director Mary Harron said Bale called her after watching Cruise on Late Show with David Letterman. “He had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes.”

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Christian Bale took inspiration for the character of Patrick Bateman in 'American Psycho' (2000) from this interview of Tom Cruise with David Letterman. He felt that Tom Cruise had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes

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In Shaft (2000), Christian Bale filmed his role alongside American Psycho, playing two wealthy psychopaths at once. Some of his Shaft dialogue felt like Patrick Bateman. Bale was unhappy with the script rewrites and said that his character was turned into a "whipping boy."

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Christian Bale who normally weighed around 80kg, had to reduce his weight to 54kg for his role in "The Machinist" (2004). He had to increase his weight to play Batman in "Batman Begins" (2005). To increase his weight, He was lifting really heavy weights and just stuffing so much into his mouth. His body was under so much pressure that he could feel it. To fill out his Batman suit, Bale stuffed himself with food and when he was not eating, he was in the gym. His doctor said to him, 'You are going nuts. You have to slow down'." But when he arrived on the set of 'Batman Begins', he was 100kg, well overweight. According to Bale, Nolan had no idea who Bale was when he arrived to the set with his long hair. "When Nolan got close he was like 'Holy f... You look like Grizzly Adams. What's going on?'" Nolan then asked him to get a little leaner. Michael Caine was stunned too, especially after seeing him as a young man in "The Machinist" & "American Psycho". He felt Bale looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Some of the English members in the crew joked, "'Hey Chris, what film are we making here? Fatman?'." ("Bale turns to fatman", Sydney Morning Herald, 2005) P.S: On this day, 21 years ago, Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" (2005) premiered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Christian Bale reveals he was fired from American Psycho after helping get the movie funded… and refused to accept it “Every scene we were doing, I had the book by my side because Bret Easton Ellis had written such incredible descriptions.” “When I first auditioned for Mary Harron, I didn’t approach the character like the other actors.” “I said, ‘None of that really matters. He’s just like this alien.’” “As we were doing the scene, I started laughing, and she started cracking up.” “We realized we had the same very sick sense of humor.” “She had so many well-known actors who wanted the role, but she kept saying, ‘No, I want Christian.’” “The financiers told her, ‘We’re giving you no money.’” “So we did a staged reading in New York with Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, and Bryce Dallas Howard, and eventually we raised the money.” “But our agents forgot to include us in the package.” “So after the money came in, they said, ‘Right… and you two, bye-bye.’” “But I went a little psycho myself.” “I said, ‘No. I’m still making the film.’” “Even after other people were cast and other directors came on board, I just kept preparing.” “My friends thought I’d lost the plot.” “And then… eventually, it all came back. That felt like a great victory.”

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That time Tom Cruise called Zack Snyder to congratulate him on 300's opening weekend box office . "Everyone was pretty confident, but they weren't really sure. I mean, I think it was 70 something million dollars it made in its opening weekend. "And I was shooting a TV commercial the day, that Sunday morning in downtown LA, and I got a call from Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise called me to say congratulations, okay, had nothing to do with the movie, didn't work at Warner Brothers. "I'd met him once over at his house to talk about cuz he'd seen the trailer for 300 was like this is awesome. And I just kind of tell him how he did it and everything was really, he's a sort of student of cinema and student film. "So he really wanted to know what this was. And he's the one that called me and said like '$70 million opening weekend. Congratulations, that's awesome!' "I was like, 'thanks Tom.'"

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Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” went out with a bang last night in the historic Ed Sullivan Theater after a nearly 33 year run beginning in August of ‘93 with David Letterman. As we celebrate the immense legacy of both Colbert and “The Late Show”, we wanted to share a clip from our friend John Krasinski‘s appearance on May 8th discussing his collaboration with ILM on the “A Quiet Place” franchise. We’re honored to hold a place in the final episodes of this American institution — and a place in your creative upbringing, John!

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Tom Hardy says he got genuinely scared by Christian Bale. “When I saw him first time, when I got to LA we were doing the screen test, and I was trying on the Bane outfit on the trailer, and I saw Christian sat there. I was like, "How are you? Good? Lovely to meet you." He said, "Hello Tom, how are you?" “..Changed into my outfit and I went on set. This huge looming figure turned up on set. It was about 10 foot tall and about 8 foot wide with huge pointy ears" “And then he looked me dead in the eye and I thought, ‘I’m never going to survive.’”

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