Christian Bale mentions possible Batman 3

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Christian Bale did a very good interview recently where he mentioned all kinds of cool stuff. The one titbit everyone wants is:

“The script leaves room for a very interesting follow-up, too,” Bale says of the potential for a third film. “I think we could take it somewhere else.

In the meantime, he also talks about other projects he’s doing.

One of those roles was “Rescue Dawn,” the true-life story of American P.O.W. Dieter Dengler. Captured during his first, secret bombing mission over Laos in 1966, Dengler was tortured, starved and ultimately marked for death. But Dengler didn’t break. Instead, he immediately started planning a breakout.

For those who remember Bale dieting himself down to skeletal status a few years ago for the dark “The Machinist,” “Rescue Dawn” — opening on Wednesday, July 4th — is a reminder of how far he’s willing to go for a role.

And it’s not just that Bale dropped a few dozen pounds again. (“I deliberately never weighed myself this time,” he says, “because I knew I didn’t want to talk about it over and over later.”) It’s that he marched off into the Thai jungle with obsessive director Werner Herzog, where he and his co-stars squatted in the mud, ate worms and picked leeches off their frail bodies.

“Getting down to that prison-camp weight class was part of the alchemy of honoring all the people in uniform who went through this,” says co-star Jeremy Davies. “The last thing you wanted to do was show up as some well-fed Hollywood actor looking for his trailer… It wasn’t candy-coated. It was at times pretty intense and vividly ‘Fitzcarraldo’-esque. But you knew that Christian and (co-star) Steve Zahn shared this really fierce desire to honor the memory of these soldiers, and working like this was part of it.”

NJ.com

Also mentioned in this article a bunch of times is how down to earth Bale is. He’s not pretentious, he stops for autographs every time. He’s just a nice guy at heart it seems.

And as always, I must recommend Equilibrium.

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