Deleted the interview, its fake.

Contactmusic speaks to Christian Bale about one of his latest films Public Enemies, the true story of bank robber John Dillinger.

CM: You choose your roles very carefully. What attracted you to Public Enemies?
Bale: Three people: Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger and Michael Mann.

CM: What kind of a man was Melvin Purvis?
Bale: He was very dynamic, though ultimately tragic. Purvis was from a Southern Patrician family. He wanted a job in the State Department, but joined the Justice Department because they were they only ones that had available positions at the time.

CM: Does this movie show us who he really was?
Bale: Well, what we see in the film is only the tip of the iceberg of his life, which was truly fascinating.

CM: How successful was he?
Bale: He rose very quickly in his career, so that in his late 20′s he became a special agent in Chicago -the hot spot in America at that time. Read the rest of this entry »

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, itā€™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 didnā€™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 Iā€™ve ever seen. His level of filmmaking is just exceptional and heā€™s made a movie, and I donā€™t think Iā€™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 itā€™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 thatā€™s two hours long you have to take some artistic license in order to tell the story most effectively and so thereā€™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 heā€™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 donā€™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 donā€™t have any particular style, you know Iā€™ve never studied any acting at all. My personal love of what I do is the ability to obsess and immerse yourself completely and thatā€™s what I enjoy, you know I got into this not so much because Iā€™m a real lover of movies but because Iā€™m just really fascinated with people and I like putting myself in their shoes. And the fact that with this industry that Iā€™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, Iā€™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 youā€™d be amazed at how little knowledge I have at movie history and how few movie Iā€™ve actually seen.

LF: Thanks very much for talking to us Christian, itā€™s been a pleasure.

Earlier today I participated in an international press conference with a lean and muscular Christian Bale. He was here in Los Angeles promoting his new movie ā€œPublic Enemiesā€. I went as a reporter for our partners at Omelete and while Iā€™ll have a full transcript of what Christian said, since he gave us some updates on his possibly upcoming projects, I wanted to post what he said immediately.

Regarding ā€œBatman 3?, Christian said, ā€œI really cannot tell you if there will ever be another ā€˜Batmanā€™ movie right now. Chris has obviously done an incredible job with it. Heā€™s devoted to the movie that heā€™s on right now. Iā€™m none the wiser about weā€™ll ever be revisiting Gotham or not.ā€

On another ā€œTerminatorā€ movie: ā€œno conversation has been had about that at all.ā€

While Christian didnā€™t have much to say on his big franchise movies, he did have a lot to talk about regarding his next film ā€œFighterā€. Read what he had to say after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »

In which the most ardent actor of his generation speaks of starving for his art, falling asleep during scenes, and why John Connorā€”not Christian Baleā€”bears the lionā€™s share of the blame for that infamous explosion on the set of ā€˜Terminator Salvationā€™

What is this? Petulance? Efficiency? Both? Christian Bale detests interviews, on the predictable grounds that his offscreen life is nobodyā€™s business, but also because he thinks the whole enterprise of movie-star ā€œjournalismā€ā€”the appetite for it, as well as the sating of that appetiteā€”corrosive to acting and storytelling. It encourages people to look for the wrong things.

This openerā€”ā€œhere or what?ā€ā€”is less interesting for what it is than for what it skipsā€”the part where we shake hands and say hello and I thank him for taking the time, and he says, ā€œDonā€™t mention it,ā€ andā€¦smiles. Or something. Letā€™s just get through this, right? Now he looks at me. Or at least faces me. I canā€™t see his eyes behind the Ray-Bans and wonā€™t at any point today, because he doesnā€™t take them off. I walk over, offer up my name and my hand. After a moment, he takes it. Neither limp nor manly, the shake. Al dente, more like. He points his chin at the sundeck. ā€œHow ā€™bout out there?ā€ Right.

On the deck, he sits in shadow (makes it harder for Skynetā€™s aerial search-and-destroy robots), his posture hunched. The hands remain in the pouch, emerging only when needed for the purpose of sipping decaffeinated coffee. (To waiter: ā€œThis is decaf, right? ā€™Cause I go crazy ifā€¦ā€) He answers a great number of questions thusly: ā€œYeah. Right.ā€ These yeah-rights are most often preceded by a blank stillness, though occasionally by a flubbery-lipped exhalation that falls somewhere on the gestural spectrum between eye rolling and expectoration.

I ask if I can tape, he says sure, and Iā€™m reaching for the recorder when I notice the mondo Band-Aid on his left index finger. He shrugs, makes a sawing motion over the finger with his other hand, matter-of-factly says, ā€œCut off the tip.ā€ A kitchen accident, I guess, and am about to move on when it occurs to me: At some point weā€™re going to talk about his howling four-minute profani-rant at the director of photography on the set of Terminator Salvation last summerā€”the one that went viral (in both its unabridged and dance-remix versions) after hitting the Web in early February. Of course we are. He knows it. I know it. By way of going there, and in the spirit of just getting through it, I muster a saccharine Stuart Smalley voice and ask if the wound was ā€œreally an accidentā€ and if he ā€œhas anger.ā€ He says, ā€œNah,ā€ but the explanationā€”and much of what he says for the next few minutesā€”is so mumbly-quiet and sluggishly reserved that only later, when transcribing, do I register the explanation: ā€œmotorcycle accident.ā€ Turns out Christian Bale had the tip of his finger surgically reattached several days prior, after lopping it off in a bike crash.

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He knew it the second he opened the envelope. Christian Bale was in the backseat of a car, riding home from the set of The Dark Knight in London. The package sitting on his lap was postmarked Hollywood, Calif., and inside was a script with the title: Terminator Salvation. Instantly, he knew. He knew what his next movie was not going to be. ”I went, ‘No, I don’t even have to read this,”’ Bale says, two years later. ”I just thought, the mythology is dead. I mean, I did flick through it, because you can always be surprised. But I wasn’t surprised by what I read in that one.”

Back in Hollywood, McG, the director who’d sent Bale the script, was crushed. Bale was the only actor he believed had both the intensity and integrity to kick-start the beloved sci-fi franchise. So he got on a plane to London ā€” no small gesture for a guy whose fear of flying contributed to him dropping out of Warner Bros.’ recent Superman reboot at the last minute because it was being shot in Australia. He believed that if he could just meet with Bale face-to-face, he could change his mind. Read the rest of this entry »

Christian Bale sat down with E!’s Jason Kennedy over the weekend to talk about his upcoming blockbuster, Terminator: Salvation. Of course, Bale’s infamous fit during filming was a big White Elephant during the junket that had to bitched about.

C.B. apologized after the incident happened and has already taken responsibility for the way it was handled.

“It’s not like I’m trying to give reasons for it, or say I’m not to blame fully. I am. I’m saying that completely. So, what more is there to do? If people want to hold that against you they will.”

So are people who worked on the film still holding it against him? We checked around to see if it all had really blown over. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve uploaded new interview press junkets of Christian for Terminator Salvation exclusively interviewed by Beany Hollywood. I’ve added a video & some captures.

MEDIA LINK:
- Beanyhollywood – Terminator Salvation Intervew

GALLERY LINK:
- Web Interviews: Beanywood – Terminator Salvation (2009)

I have added the translation interview of Christian in Vanity Fair Italy, thanks to Ferd, Elena & SilmaBale for translation.

Christian Bale not want to ask (sorry) ever.

The boys and soon. Furthermore, to become Batman or Terminator must immerse in the character. So can happen that an unwary technician if they feel to say all the color on the set. And that perhaps you know. What we do not know and how that ended.

A balloon inflated? A star? Who really is Christian Bale? And the character that you wonder behind the mask of the bat, or the tip can have be aggressive with mother and sister (and success in London in 2008, just hours after the premiere of The Dark Knight)? and the wonderful actor with which any director would work, or that insults the bullies violently for five minutes a technician on the set of Terminator Salvation, the fourth chapter in the saga (in Italy out June 5)?

Having to do with Christian Bale is not easy. It is part of that handful of players who do not deque the rules of the game. With Edward Norton, Tobey Maquita, Joaquin Phoenix and a few others is the core dur a Hollywood that glitters is not, not try to appearances. And that, among other things, and a nightmare for journalists, because he hates talking to the press.

We had tried on the set of the film, in New Mexico: two days in the desert, hoping to exchange a few words with him. We are not even worthy of an interview. does not want to leave the character, told us then. So, we never would have expected to meet for the presentation of the new Terminator film, the first of a new trilogy, which sees him as a protagonist in the shoes of John Connor, the man who leads the humans against the regime of the cyborg, a few days putiferio triggered by the registration, spread on the Internet, its sfuriata with technico lights, guilty of having disturbed the scene. The episode was great echo, put him against most of the public, disappointed his fans and as confirmation of his arrogance to those who it considers a rude.

So many controversies that Bale had to intervene and do a radio program, one of the most ruthless in its criticism, and explain what happened in a convincing way. For all these son was the official apology, but not for him in this interview with Vanity Fair, in fact, the first after discuitibile gesture, denied excused and minimized the incident. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve uploaded complete scans of Christian for Terminator on the April issue on Empire magazine. Read more interviews inside with some new stills. Thanks to Ewris for the scans!

GALLERY LINK:
- Scans in 2009: Empire – April