F-bombs and fading stardom … what’s become of you, Christian Bale? Take our 10 pieces of advice — because your career needs it.
1. Select a co-star that won’t steal the movie.
Johnny Depp in Public Enemies? Bad move. Sam Worthington in Terminator Salvation? Right, Bale, you wouldn’t have thought so, but yep, that was his movie, not yours (and he was a no-name! For shame!). Also, witness him opposite Russell Crowe in 3:10 to Yuma, or, better yet, trying to take at least a shred of the spotlight away from Heath Ledger’s Oscar-winning, one-for-the-ages Joker in The Dark Knight. Starring opposite Mark Wahlberg in the forthcoming boxing flick The Fighter feels like a step in the right direction, though if Wahlberg brings the spark-plug inventiveness of his work in The Departed and I Heart Huckabees, all bets are off.
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