Christian Bale was not too happy with his acting as Batman.
When it was announced that Ben Affleck was going to become the next Batman, immediately people compared Affleck’s acting career to Christian Bale’s batman. It’s hard to deny that during the time Christian Bale played Batman, he revitalized the franchise. But, according to reports, Bale was not that happy with his acting in the movies.
Interviewed by Yahoo! Movies, the British actor said he imagined the superhero as a psychologically damaged man but was unable to become that person on screen. Bale also said that the arrival of Heath Ledger, whose turn as the Joker in 2008’s The Dark Knight won the Australian actor a posthumous best supporting actor Oscar, made him realize he could improve his acting.
“I didn’t quite manage what I hoped I would through the trilogy,” said Bale. “Chris did, but my own sense of self is like, ‘I didn’t quite nail it.’
“Batman, he’s this very, very dark, messed-up character,” the actor added. “I found when I put on the suit I went, ‘I just feel like a bloody idiot if I don’t use this as a means to (show) his true, monstrous self that he allows to come out in that moment.’”
Christian Bale is currently promoting Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, in which he plays an Los Angeles screenwriter undergoing a crisis after his marriage breaks down. Bale went on to say: “Heath turned up, and just kind of completely ruined all my plans, because I went, ‘He’s so much more interesting than me and what I’m doing.’”
Bale also admitted to “staring into nothing for half an hour” after hearing that Ben Affleck had been cast as the new Batman in the Dawn of Justice. But he told Yahoo! he would never go back to the role. “That’s enough. I’ve got nothing else to offer it,” he said. “We did our thing.”
According to reports, Batman v Superman is gearing up to open behind Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies at the US box office. Tracking suggests that Zack Snyder’s superhero movie will debut at $140 million against $158 million for The Dark Knight and $160 million for 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises.
However, the new movie, would easily land the highest-grossing debut for a film featuring Superman.
