Christian Bale wishes George
Clooney would "just shut up."
"It doesn't matter that he talks about it," the "Exodus:
Gods and Kings" star said in WSJ Magazine's December/January Holiday issue about Clooney
voicing concerns about privacy and tabloids.
"It's like, come on, guys, just shut up," Bale continued.
"Just get on with it and live your lives and stop whining about it. I
prefer not to whine about it."
The 40-year-old actor has had his fair share of run-ins with the
paparazzi and deals with it in the best way he knows how.
"Some people poke you like you're an animal in a zoo, looking for
a response," he told the mag in the issue that hits newsstands Dec. 6.
"If you're smart, you don't give it to them. If you're dumb, occasionally,
like me, you give it to them. And then they've basically got what they wanted.
I usually regret it afterwards."
Bale has had to "give it" to a few aggressive paps in the
past, especially when they messed with his family.
"I was in Italy with my wife. I would go to work; she would leave
the hotel," he recalled.
"There would be a man who stood outside of the hotel, and he would
say the most obscene things imaginable to my wife," Bale added. "Now,
that happened a number of times. I know what he's after; he has a strategy
there."
The "American Hustle" star was faced with a difficult
decision: act out and cause a media frenzy, or simply let it go. But for Bale,
it went beyond that.
"Am I able to say I'm not gonna give him that satisfaction of
angry Christian Bale coming after this man?" he said. "But equally,
he's killing my humanity and my dignity as a husband if I do not, and he knows
this. So you've got a choice."
Bale felt strongly about having a choice to take the starring role in
2000's "American Psycho," in which Leonardo
DiCaprio had been cast as lead and Oliver
Stone was supposed to direct.
"I just pretended it didn't happen," he said about the
Stone-DiCaprio collaboration he knew he should be doing with Mary
Harron - who ended up being the film's director with Bale wresting the
Patrick Bateman part from DiCaprio.
"I'm English, so I never go to a gym, but for that role it was
part of the whole deal that I had to go," Bale said. "I still kept
going down to the gym, every day, because I was going, 'Oh, I'm making the
film.'"
The "Dark Knight" star
was so sure, he reached out to Harronto discuss the film.
"I would call Mary Harron - she'd be having a nice dinner with her
family - and I'd go, 'So Mary, so when we do this scene …' And she'd go,
'Christian, Oliver Stone is directing, DiCaprio is playing your role,'" he
continued.
"I said, 'Right, but you said it, my role, all right? It is coming
back, so let's talk about it, because it's coming back to us,'" Bale recalled.
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