A staff from lovefilm.com has email me the video & interview of Christian Bale on Public Enemies. As you read the interview below, you also can check out the video on here.

LF: Christian Bale welcome to LOVEFiLM, it’s a real pleasure to have you here.

CB: Thanks.

LF: Now, Public Enemies is a very different take on the gangster genre, it has a very different look and feel, was that an attraction for you?

CB: Well I didn’t know at the time that there would be a different look and feel to it but I think, certainly in my mind, Michael has made one of the finest movies that I’ve ever seen. His level of filmmaking is just exceptional and he’s made a movie, and I don’t think I’m speaking out of turn to say, I see it destined to be a classic. I think that his eye for detail and his abilities are just phenomenal.

LF: Now it’s based on real events and real people, and obviously the character that you play Melvin Pervis is a real person. Do you approach that differently knowing that this is based on real life?

CB: Absolutely, you know you want to be respectful to their memory, truthful but also you have to recognize that with making a movie that’s two hours long you have to take some artistic license in order to tell the story most effectively and so there’s some differences in the chronological order in which things happened. Melvin Pervis really could have a movie made just all about his own life; he was a very dynamic man and ultimately led a very dynamic but tragic life. But in this one he’s very much the supporting role, it is the Dillenger story and Pervis was the man that took down Dillenger and holds the record to this day in the FBI of taking down the most public enemies.

LF: I hope you don’t mind me asking some of our members to e-mail in some questions for you. The overriding question and feel we got was them asking you questions about method acting and your approach to acting, especially citing the Machinist?

CB: I don’t have any particular style, you know I’ve never studied any acting at all. My personal love of what I do is the ability to obsess and immerse yourself completely and that’s what I enjoy, you know I got into this not so much because I’m a real lover of movies but because I’m just really fascinated with people and I like putting myself in their shoes. And the fact that with this industry that I’m in that obsession and immersion is seen as being necessary, where as in other walks of like it would be seen as quite abnormal.

LF: My final question to you, I’m quite interested about some of the films that have inspired you?

CB: You know I tend to actually get inspiration more from books and documentaries and things, but I have to say I do get very much inspired by the people I work with. I think you’d be amazed at how little knowledge I have at movie history and how few movie I’ve actually seen.

LF: Thanks very much for talking to us Christian, it’s been a pleasure.