Christian Bale – Batman versus Terminator

Christian Bale played Batman in the Dark Knight and it is a resounding success. He also played John Connor in the recent installment of the Terminator series. And while both movies are not exactly in the short list of the approved movies by Christian magazines, here is what the actor thinks of the characters that he portrays based on a recent interview:

Exactly. The Connors are the story. But then I was in Hong Kong on the very last week of shooting The Dark Knight. I had been to some teahouse where this local guide insisted I drink this tea he’d made. I don’t know if he’d spiked it, but within half an hour I turned to my wife and said, “Eh, I kind of feel like doing this.” So I called McG up, said, “If we can get a new script, then yeah, let’s go for Connor.” I felt good about it, because we really did have a lot of time. And then…ffffuck, writers’ strike. I learned a lesson then about movies like The Terminator and Batman. Most people assume that if you’re risking that amount of money, you don’t begin until you’re completely ready. In fact, that’s what they do only with the lower-budget movies. With the bigger ones, the ones that keep the studios afloat, they have to release it on a certain date. In my naïveté, I thought, Of course we’ll push back filming. No. Ain’t a possibility. And that strike kept going on, and we were getting less and less time to get it together. In the end, it was a film experience unlike any I’d had before. A real balls-to-the-wall kind of effort.