CHRISTIAN BALE
YOU KNOW HIM FROM. . . Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008).
UNIFORM. . . A complex thatchwork of slats and ribbing. Breastplate looks like a pair of bongo drums.
VILLAINS FOUGHT. . . The Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy), the Joker (Heath Ledger).
BEST NON-BATMAN PROJECT. . . American Psycho.
CHOICE QUOTE. . . “A guy who dresses up like a bat . . . clearly has issues.”
THE CRITICS SAID. . . “Bale, in his first venture into superhero status, hits just the right balance between Bruce’s uncertainty and the intensity of his alter ego.” (CNN.com)
BAT FACT. . . When promoting Batman Begins, Bale kept his adopted American accent because “Batman is such an American character that in representing him in doing the interviews I don’t want to be sounding English because that would be peculiar.”
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