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When a rage for authenticity meets a passionate fakery meets a workingman's attitude, you get this guy. An actor of great dimension — just don't call him that. And he'll probably win some big award for his role in The Fighter, but don't dare tell him that. A funny and sometimes testy encounter with Mr. Bale.Christian Bale comes to the bar dressed in a regular-guy windbreaker and looking much more scruffy and handsome — charming, rakish, ne'er-do-well, with a piratical mustache and goatee — than he ever lets himself look in movies. His English accent hits a sweet spot on the higher edge of working class, with a hint of the warm burr of his native Wales. He orders a Stella and expresses polite concern about the noise level and the tape recorder. But within minutes it becomes blindingly clear that he'd be much happier asking the questions than answering them.
A standoff ensues not unlike thescene in Antonioni's The Passenger when Jack Nicholson is interviewing a witch doctor who clearly thinks he's an obnoxious idiot. "Your questions are much more revealing about yourself than my answers will be about me," the witch doctor says, turning the camera around so it's pointing at Nicholson. Major existential moment as Nicholson stares into the abyss between sign and signifier. But we have seen this movie, and it does not turn out well — the spell must be reversed.
BALE: Well,
it's embarrassing to be a star. Most people look at you like, "That's
not a fucking job, is it?" And then on top of that, you learn very
quickly that you're just a tool — other people are manipulating
everything you do, you're at the mercy of editors, and there's nothing
you can do. But I learned that there's a certain character that can be
built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with
embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
When
a rage for authenticity meets a passionate fakery meets a workingman's
attitude, you get this guy. An actor of great dimension — just don't
call him that. And he'll probably win some big award for his role in The
Fighter, but don't dare tell him that. A funny and sometimes testy
encounter with Mr. Bale.
ESQUIRE: You don't want to be a vain
movie star, I totally get it, I respect it. But there's nothing that's
more of a dick movie-star move than to say, "It has to be printed as a
Q&A." That's movie star. You and Tom Cruise back in the day are the
only people who do that shit.
BALE: That's not true!
[laughing] We're not the only ones. And it was like I said yesterday, it
came from a couple of interviews where they just made up a whole bunch
of crap in their effort to practice writing their novel.
BALE:
Because I've enjoyed interviews so much when the writer has said to me,
"You know what? Not my thing. Didn't like it too much." I find that
endlessly entertaining.
It's actually a terrific movie.
Directed by the wildly unpredictable David O. Russell, it's a
naturalistic tour de force with Mark Wahlberg playing a mean-streets
Massachusetts boxer named Micky Ward and Bale as his older brother
Dickie, a professional boxer turned crackhead.
ESQUIRE: There was something really sweet about Dickie, even though he's a crackhead.
BALE:
He's a sweet crackhead, isn't he? I'm so fond of Dickie. I was just
talking with him today. He just loves people so much, and then he messes
up.
ESQUIRE: I love the way he jumps out the window every time his mom comes over.
BALE:
All true! Dickie and me went walking around the town and every single
bar, there's some incident that they can talk about that happened with
Dickie there. A few of the bars, he's not allowed in. He's like the
mayor. He walks down the street, everybody shouting out, "Dickie!
Dickie!"
ESQUIRE: The sisters were awesome.
BALE:
They're an endlessly entertaining family. One of them got upset with the
portrayal that was being done, and there was a few suggestions of
physical actions that might happen if the actress continued to represent
her in that way. But then that was all solved in the bar.
His phone rings and he leans away with a hand over one ear.
BALE:
Oh darling, I told you, I've got to do a blah-blah meeting, you'd be
really bored here ... we're just sitting at a table talking stupid
stuff... But I can't, darling, there's a man who's flown all the way out
here. I promise when I come back, I'll give you a big kiss and a hug.
I
mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with
the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The
number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and
it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.
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