Christian Bale, You Need Career Advice
By Brett Buckalew, Special to Hollywood.com
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
7. Play a totally amoral villain.
If Bale has little interest in turning to lighter cinematic fare as a form of shrewd damage control — judging by the moody films that dot his resumé, this is very much a possibility — then it may be wise to harness the anger which many fans and TMZ junkies currently feel towards him and direct it towards an evil, unscrupulous baddie that he could play. That way, audiences can sublimate the boo’s and hisses they want to hurl at Bale, and get them out of their system while watching him inhabit a fiendish foe. A comic-book villain would be ideal, considering the subversive fun that could be had seeing the guy we know as Batman hop to the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
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