The Official CHRISTIAN BALE thread.

[Darkness Falls]

^^^^ haha that WAS EPIC

thanks for the heads up :)

[terry78]

I swear if I ever find the excuse to call somebody a fen-sucked, beef-witted shrimp I am doing that ****.

[Pauluz]

What the hell happened to Christian!?!?

http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/14/christian-bale-skinny-photo/#comments
http://www.celebuzz.com/christian-bale-kinda-skinny-s118761/

[AxlsAppetite]

New movie, guy is dedicated but crazy. Losing and gaining weight like that can't be healthy. That pic was taken on the set of his new movie, The Fighter.

Love that joke though,
''Hopefully an apple a day keeps the cinematographer away''

[Doctor Jones]

That's great! Hehehe.

But yeah it's for the new movie. Damn that man is dedicated.

[terry78]

The local radio station here in the area still uses that "Ohhh, good for you!" line whenever someone says something stupid.

[KenK]

Bale needs to pick a weight and stick with it! We get it, you're hardcore! But please, f***in' eat somethin'!!!

[dark_b]

you can not do this your whole life. 2 times is enough. what if something happens ? this is not healthy.

[Sawyer]

Seriously, he's almost as bad as Oprah.... well, no, thats not true. First, he would have to make a whole show about his weight and how hard it is to lose weight. :dry:

[AxlsAppetite]

Yea but he does it on purpose, he gets all skinny then gets buff. Oprah just can't leave that chicken alone.

[terry78]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/12/christian_bale_caught_on_video.html


Who knew?

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

OK, I'm wrong. God is real and and everything since the creation of the heavens has led up to this.

[Wolfwood]

That is beyond awesome.

[Sawyer]

Honestly, with every passing day, I'm feeling more and more like I need to be best friends with this guy. I would even take the yelling if it means getting moments like this.

[MessiahDecoy123]

If they did tht at comic con they place would've imploded from the collective nergasm.

[Anita18]

Young daughters always soften up guys. :lmao:

The "?!?!??!?!?!" look he gives Peter Travers at the beginning is also gold.

[hopefuldreamer]

Seriously, I love him! :)

[Ghostvirus]

The fact he has that manly mountain man look makes even more epic.:up:

[Prison Mike]

Bale is back in good graces with his fans...until some audio leaks of him yelling at another guy...and then The Dark Knight Rises comes out and he'll back to being awesome.

[Warhammer]

There's too much coolness in that video.

:up:

[JoeyConQueso]

It's a shame he probably won't listen to my Newsies 2 idea now though.

I'm shocked people actually know the PPG theme.

[Ajendo]

Why are you shocked? The PPG theme tune is catchy and very simple.

[JoeyConQueso]

Why are you shocked? The PPG theme tune is catchy and very simple.

It only plays during the end credits is mostly why. I watched PPG on tv for years before I heard it myself.

[Paroxysm]

Bale is back in good graces with his fans...until some audio leaks of him yelling at another guy...and then The Dark Knight Rises comes out and he'll back to being awesome.

I don't think he was ever out of our graces, Shane was amateur, he ****ed up. Bale just let him know. :woot:

[Wolfwood]

I don't think he was ever out of our graces, Shane was amateur, he ****ed up. Bale just let him know. :woot:

In all honesty, he should feel honored that Bale even addressed him. :o

[Ajendo]

It only plays during the end credits is mostly why. I watched PPG on tv for years before I heard it myself.

Loool does it? Its the only music I associate with the show.

[HighFivingMF]

My wildest fantasy is to log on one day and find audio of Bale, Nolan, Caine, and Freeman all screaming at each other. While Oldman laughs and does impressions of everyone.

[Great1]

http://i53.tinypic.com/2rzubd5.gif

[Manic]

Remember, folks: The next time you fly off the handle at someone in public or are accused of mercilessly beating your own mother, just grow a manly beard and sing the Powerpuff Girls theme song.

[enterthemadness]

Umm....I can't tell if he was singing or saying the words softly. Bale should do a cover of pop songs and rock songs.

[Two-Face]

Oh man Mr Bale what have you done? I didn't want to hear that..... :D

[Bim]

The fact he has that manly mountain man look makes even more epic.:up:
He rocks the Jesus look... not many men can make this look sexy, but Mr. Bale gets my vote. The accent is a plus :awesome:

And yeah, the video of him singing the powerpuff girls' theme song is awesome :hehe:

[Bim]

Looks like Christian might be doing a movie before diving into Batman:

China's Zhang says Bale to star in Nanjing project

(AP) – 12 hours ago

BEIJING (AP) — Christian Bale will star in Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou's new project about 13 young prostitutes who help save compatriots from Japanese troops rampaging Nanjing, the latest film exploring a World War II-era atrocity that stirs nationalism in China.

Bale, currently co-starring in the boxing drama "The Fighter," will portray an American priest in the movie, which is expected to start filming in Nanjing on Jan. 10, the Chinese director told reporters Wednesday.

The film is an adaptation of a Chinese-language novel by contemporary writer Yan Geling about 13 sex workers in Nanjing who volunteered to replace university students as escorts for invading Japanese soldiers. In the novel, the American priest presides over a Catholic church that shelters a group of prostitutes and young female students during the invasion.

Historians say the massacre, known in the West as the "Rape of Nanking," resulted in the slaughter of at least 150,000 civilians. China puts the number killed at 300,000, making it one of the worst atrocities of the WWII era.

Bale was picked because of his versatility and dedication to his roles, Zhang said, noting he was impressed by the research Bale did into the history of the massacre.

"I gave him the names of some books that he should read about the Nanjing massacre," the director said. "When I went to see him, I saw those books were lying open on his table, and I was very touched."

The $90 million production is slated for global release next December. It's being filmed with a mix of English and Chinese spoken.

The book's title translates roughly as "The 13 Women of Nanjing" but the film is going by the working English title of "Nanjing Heroes."

In making a movie about Japan's wartime atrocities in Nanjing, Zhang joins several others in exploring a sensitive topic that triggers nationalist sentiments in China. Other recently released films about the Japanese invasion include Lu Chuan's "City of Life and Death" and Florian Gallenberger's "John Rabe."

Zhang said he hopes to bring a fresh approach to the topic in telling the story through a woman's perspective. He also hoped to enhance the foreign appeal by casting Bale, a Hollywood star who played Batman in "The Dark Knight."

"We've made many, many Nanjing movies ... but they are mostly like we're talking to ourselves. A lot of young people in Western countries might not know about it," Zhang said. "So I think that perhaps by doing it this way... could let maybe 100 or 200 million young audiences watch this film and maybe then they'll know what happened in Nanjing in 1937."

Zhang, whose credits include "Raise the Red Lantern" and "To Live," is of the first modern Chinese directors to make his name in the West.

His recent releases include "A Simple Noodle Story," an adaptation of the Coen brothers' 1984 movie "Blood Simple," and "Under the Hawthorn Tree," a love story set in China's decade-long ultra-leftist Cultural Revolution.

Bale's other films include "American Psycho" and "Empire of the Sun."

[Darkness Falls]

i can't stop listening to his cover of the powerpuff girls theme :D

[Bim]

I know! Adorable, isnt it? :hehe:

[chamber-music]

Bale bans daughter from acting professionally

Christian Bale will never allow his daughter to follow in his footsteps as a child star, insisting kids should be able to "get into trouble" and make mistakes away from the spotlight.

The actor was just 13 years old when he was cast in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, and wishes he could have enjoyed more of his youth before shooting to fame.

And Bale wants his five-year-old Emmeline to have an anonymous childhood before trying to make it in Hollywood.

He tells Empire magazine, "(I) didn't like that (being famous as a teen). That wasn't for me at all. Some people can deal with it, but I found it to be a complete pain in the ass and embarrassing. Also, there was the annoying notion of everyone going, 'Ah, you should know better' when I was done for shoplifting. But, no, I shouldn't have known better.

There was no reason I should. I could have done without that side of things. It was nice to go travelling and have those experiences (filming movies), but look, if anyone in my family - my nieces or my daughter - wanted to start at that age, I'd absolutely believe in and support their dreams, but I would tell them, 'No bloody way - not professionally.'

"It's just too young. You need to be anonymous at that age, you need to go and get into all sorts of trouble and not have anyone know who you are. It's ruined when everyone knows who you are."

Didn't know he got done for shoplifting

[kvz5]

The full Empire Magazine (Feb 2011 issue) interview with Bale:

1 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-01.jpg) // 2 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-02.jpg) // 3 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-03.jpg) // 4 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-04.jpg) // 5 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-05.jpg)

[Hurm...]

I guessing she is...done professinally?

:awesome:

[Ken-Kaniff]

The full Empire Magazine (Feb 2011 issue) interview with Bale:

1 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-01.jpg) // 2 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-02.jpg) // 3 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-03.jpg) // 4 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-04.jpg) // 5 (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/ferdalump/Daily%20Brois/balearticles/?action=view&current=EmpireFeb11-05.jpg)
Thanks!

I think that his American Psycho performance was top-notch, absolutely brilliant, even better than his Bruce Wayne performance (which is also very good of course), I can't really understand why Empire only added it on 5th place...

[Bim]

In my opinion American Psycho is the best Bale performance i`ve seen (havent seen The Fighter yet), so i also think it should be ranked higher.

[kvz5]

Reunion:

http://i52.tinypic.com/b656kg.jpg

[Sawyer]

Spielberg: "Is that you, Jesus?"

[dark_b]

Bale: because of you i never had a normal childhod. i couldnt steal candy
Spielberg : Bob who is this guy?

[terry78]

Didn't know he got done for shoplifting

We all technically should have as kids, some of us just never got caught.


:o

[chamber-music]

I guess he should of told the store he was trying to understand the criminal mind :brucebat:

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I guess he should of told the store he was trying to understand the criminal mind :brucebat:

:woot::woot:

[Jack Bauer]

Is Bale growing the long hair and beard for a role or just for free time?

[daywalker2007]

Reunion:

http://i52.tinypic.com/b656kg.jpg

Spielberg needs to make another movie with Bale.

I think it would be one of the first times that a child actor under Spielberg has gone onto have such a big career and then come back to work with him as an adult.

Most of the child actors who have worked with Spielberg have never worked with him again.

Bale could break that trend.

[Nightwing]

Spielberg needs to make another movie with Bale.

I think it would be one of the first times that a child actor under Spielberg has gone onto have such a big career and then come back to work with him as an adult.

Most of the child actors who have worked with Spielberg have never worked with him again.

Bale could break that trend.
Agreed.

[HighFivingMF]

Christian Bale for the robots in Robobopatopalockalypse!

[kvz5]

Maybe there's a role for him in the Lincoln project. Imagine Spielberg, DDL and Bale in one movie...

[HighFivingMF]

Maybe there's a role for him in the Lincoln project. Imagine Spielberg, DDL and Bale in one movie...
Will John Wilkes Booth be in the movie? Bale could definitely do the mustache.

[Bim]

Is Bale growing the long hair and beard for a role or just for free time?
Yeah... he says that`s what unemployment looks like :woot:

The fangirl in me cant help but to find this video cute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC92W97nvYo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC92W97nvYo)

[kvz5]

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2389/tumblrlf5cxzrrwt1qawrzy.gif

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/7474/tumblrlf6w2otgks1qajc4e.gif

[HighFivingMF]

I'm pretty sure most people were aware Bale looked like Jesus when he played Jesus. :oldrazz:

[Jack Bauer]

Yeah... he says that`s what unemployment looks like :woot:

The fangirl in me cant help but to find this video cute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC92W97nvYo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC92W97nvYo)
Haha, that is funny. Now I'm thinking is Joey from Friends when I see that clip.

[Bim]

Haha, that is funny. Now I'm thinking is Joey from Friends when I see that clip.
How you doin? :cwink:

Great, now i cant get it out my my head either :hehe:

kvz5: that RDJ gif is pure awesomeness hahaha

[SWAT]

I think they should add the clip of Thomas Jane when his category came up to the Downey, Bale gif. :p

[Jack Bauer]

Yeah, Tom is like the hell is going on here. :D