Christian Bale, You Need Career Advice
By Brett Buckalew, Special to Hollywood.com
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
8. Take on stoic-martyr characters only if they’re in smart indies.
In independent productions such as The Machinist and Rescue Dawn, Bale excels at playing unconventional, obsessive protagonists who find a sort of masochistic ecstasy in extreme suffering. However, when he tries to pull off similar roles in non-Christopher-Nolan-directed studio movies, the results end up lacking the proper gravitas (Terminator being the most obvious example). So if Bale wants to continue his string of crazed, wounded heroes, it would be best for him to focus on films with limited budgets and the creative freedom to go to some genuinely dark places. It would be just about perfect if frequent collaborator Todd Haynes, who got colorful supporting work out of Bale in Velvet Goldmine and I'm Not There, had a leading role for the actor to bite into.
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