Interview of Christian Bale

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Exclusive Interview of Christian Bale in The Dark Knight :
Celebrity actor of Hollywood, Christian Bale on becoming batman and getting into the batsuit, has given the following interview.


You shot a dangerous stunt ona roof-top which was originally slated to be shot by your stunt-double...?

Umm, yeah. That was a memorable day. It was a planned shot for a good, nice shot of Batman looking out over the skyline. And I just overheard somebody saying they were doing it the next day, and I said, ‘No, I wanna do that. I want to stand up on the Sears Tower. I mean, wouldn’t you? If you had the opportunity? No? You wouldn’t? (Laughs)

Weren’t you scared?

No. It was exhilarating. It was quite a rush. But it’s also very funny, with things like that, how quickly you feel very comfortable — which I suppose is quite dangerous, but, err, yeah. It only took a few minutes and I was just leaning right out over the edge and looking down. And you get used to it very quickly.

Do they let you do a lot of dangerous stunts?

I mean you know, if they really thought I was going to fall off the tower... nah. I’d like to say it’s because they care about me, but the fact is it would just cost too much, you know?!

What made you want to come back to Batman? Was it Batman? Was it Bruce Wayne? Was it Chris Nolan?

What made me want to do a second Batman movie? Well, because they had me sign for three! (Laughs loud)

For your own personal satisfaction, what is it that keeps you going?

Because I’m very proud of what we did with the first one. I was never really a fan of the previous Batman movies. Well, first of all, I like working with Chris a lot, and I think — not to sound too full of ourselves, or myself — but I think we did a good job with the first one. I liked it very much and I think that we can do even better with the second one.

How does Bruce Wayne evolve in this second movie?

Well, I’m always wary of saying too much. And I enjoy the air of mystery they like to create around these films. But there’s a natural evolution, as we saw in the first one, of a man kind of finding himself and his purpose. And this one is more somebody who has more maturity, more experience and the realisation of literally not being a finite quest that he’s on — of realising that it was kind of naive of himself to think that. And then there’s a lot of great ethical questions that get brought up regarding — once you’re in the position of power — the quickest way to deal with things versus the correct way to deal with issues.

Did you feel different this time round, knowing the role was more tailored to you personally because he (Chris) knew already you were playing Batman when he was writing it?

I never really understand what that means actually, though anyway, when people say ‘Oh, we wrote this with you in mind’. And I kinda go... I don’t know what that means really. So I didn’t notice any difference. I just read it and think of, ‘OK. What’s happening with Bruce Wayne here and Batman’. I don’t ever look at it and think, ‘Aaah right. I can see Chris wrote this for Christian there’. I just never can recognise that.

Was it difficult for you to adjust to a new leading lady — Maggie Gyllenhaal having replaced Katie Holmes as your love interest?

You’re kidding me?! (Deep sarcasm - laughs) Oh my God. I had no idea. I didn’t notice. At all. It never occurred to me... They’re both very different. And Maggie is doing her own thing. And doing it very well. And, no. No difficulties there.

How was it working with Heath? There’s a lot of interplay between these characters?

Right, yeah, because it’s a funny meeting of these two characters where Batman always has this slight urge towards sadism and having to control himself with that, but the fact is, he’s got an opponent who is a sadist and a masochist and he loves it. So he can punch him all he wants and he knows he’s actually giving The Joker a great deal of pleasure. So he’s a new kind of opponent. And Heath is doing it in a much more kind of anarchic and sort of punk-like fashion and its been very good and entertaining for me to do these scenes with him. I think that one of the nice things about Batman Begins and with The Dark Knight as well — a lot of people had written the Batman franchise off as a light-weight sort of thing, but we’ve got such great actors now involved in both movies . . .

How is the re-designed Batsuit? Better?

A lot better. I can turn my head. I can sit in it for a long time without feeling like I’m gonna have — what would it be? — rubber-suit rage, or something? This one is much cooler; much more agile, whereas with the other one I was often having to fight against the suit to be able to do the moves that we needed to.

What’s Batman’s relationship with Two-Face?

I don’t want to give too much away but I think its common knowledge that Harvey Dent is now the DA, and he’s this kind of White Knight of Gotham; he seems like he could well be the answer to Gotham’s problems, and a way to actually have the system answer the problems instead of this masked crusader answering the problems. He’s a potential heir to that, I think, in Bruce Wayne’s mind.

Do you get more respect at home when you’re playing a superhero?

Maybe I live in denial but I like to think I get a fair amount of respect the whole time... But I’m not sure about the level of respect you can acquire when you go to work in a rubber suit?! You know? It depends how you look at it.

Do you think about other Batman movies and how Batman has previously been portrayed?

I really never think about other movies when I’m making a movie. I hope that I’m not accidentally copying anybody because of my lack of knowledge. What I mean is, because I have such little knowledge really, about movies. And I don’t feel that, from what I do, I don’t feel like I have to have any knowledge about movies to make them. And in fact, I kind of like remaining as oblivious as possible to it because I don’t want to compare myself to other people; or recognise the fitting into some kind of category or something like that. The only thing I will do — if I’m doing a movie and maybe if it’s a re-make or if there’s something the director says ‘oh this is an interesting movie ...’ I’ll always watch that, or I’ll read a book or whatever that has to do with it. But I would certainly never intentionally copy anybody. But I suppose everybody steals something now and then. And I don’t see anything wrong in that.

Would you like to be more in control by producing yourself or…?

I’ve often thought, ‘Oh yeah, I should do that…’ But I think, to be honest, I think that I like doing just what I do. I don’t think I would want the position of being responsible for other people, and having people coming and asking me questions about how to do something. I think I’d be impatient with them, and tell them ‘Figure it out yourself, you idiot!’ you know? I think it takes a definite temperament to be able to direct and produce. I like just being responsible for myself.

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