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Article: Christian Bale: Dark Knight laid bare ; The latest Batman is tough and brooding - just like the actor behind the mask. Gill Pringle meets Christian Bale
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- July 7, 2008
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This is the invisible armour he wears to protect himself from the
real world; a place where the villains are those who seek to unveil
his true identity.
"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in," he
states. True to his word, Bale continues to slip under the radar
despite a career that began, aged 13, when he was cast in the lead
role of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun. In 2005's The
Machinist, he lost more than four stone to play a troubled
insomniac, but refused to discuss his weight-loss process for fear
of trivialising the film's dark subject matter.
"Look," exclaims the 34-year-old Welsh-born actor, "I'm an actor,
not a baby-kissing politician. I kick myself whenever I ...