Christian Bale thinks Ben Affleck should ignore the negative backlash on the Internet after the “Argo” star was cast as the Dark Knight in the upcoming “Batman vs. Superman.”
“Look, there is no middle ground on the Internet,” Bale, who starred in three Batman films, tells Details. “It’s just extreme feelings. They love you or abhor you. Ben knows that, and I doubt if he spent one minute worrying about it.”
Bale, who appears on the cover of the mag’s Hollywood Mavericks issue, says his wife, Sibi Blazic, pushes him when it comes to taking roles like the one in director David O. Russell’s “American Hustle,” where he plays a con man pushed by the FBI into the dealings of the New Jersey mafia.
“I often talk myself out of doing things,” Bale says. “It was my wife getting on the phone to David. She’s done that before, where she’s heard me talking for hours and weeks with directors, and then . . . she’ll get on the phone, ‘You know what Christian’s like. Get him to pull his finger out of his a - -, and he’ll be there for you.’ ”
On playing Moses in Ridley Scott’s biblical epic “Exodus,” he says, “Let me put it this way: Any of us living today who arrived back then would be scared [bleep]less.”