Christian is not afraid to go to the dark side.
While Bale, 50, is certainly recognized for his role of altruistic superhero Batman, the award-winning actor in Oscars is undoubtedly better known for his role as a bad ultimate boy Patrick Bateman. The bad character of Bale in 2000 American psycho has become synonymous with the greed of companies and toxic masculinity, while missing a chainsaw.
More than 20 years after Bale has taught us to check the ante Thor: Love and thunder As Gorr the god butcher. In a black style performance, Bale served as an antithesis of everything that is happy and good – the ultimate villain of the multiverse.
“There is a great pleasure in playing a bad guy,” said Bale about his character Thor: Love and Thunder during a press event in 2022. “It is much easier to play a villain than playing a hero – Chris [Hemsworth] had a much more difficult job. You know, everyone is fascinated by the bad guys, immediately. »»
Chloë Sevigny had trouble connecting with Christian Bale while turning American Psycho because of his method of method actor. “I was trying to respect its process, which I found difficult because I am very gregarious and slit and clumsy, without the general public,” said Sevigny, 49 years old […]
Bale continued by saying that a well written villain can evoke both hatred and empathy, adding that when an actor successfully plays a villain “you may understand why this guy makes horrible decisions.”
“He is a monster and he is a butcher, but he is perhaps a little understanding of the reason why he has become thus,” he concluded.
From a polarizing political figure to a almighty half-god, here are the roles of the most emblematic bad guys, classified:
