According to Christian Bale, every starring role in Hollywood is offered first to fellow actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Only when DiCaprio fits would other actors - like him - come into play. Does that also apply to Batman?
Christian Bale, 48, is undoubtedly one of Hollywood's biggest stars. He became particularly famous in the 2000s through Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, in which he mimed the "Dark Knight" Batman. But Bale is apparently not even close to the same level as superstar Leonardo DiCaprio. At least that's what the actor himself explained to the magazine "GQ". "Any role that anyone gets, they only get it because Leo DiCaprio turned it down before," Bale said literally in an interview.
Bale goes on to say that directors and other Hollywood players he spoke to all assured him that whatever role he ended up playing, DiCaprio was offered first. DiCaprio was originally intended to star in the psychological thriller "American Psycho" based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. The now 47-year-old dropped out and Bale finally celebrated his breakthrough as an A-lister in Hollywood with his portrayal of the psychotic yuppie killer Patrick Bateman.
"I would surmise that almost everyone who is around DiCaprio's age owes their career to the fact that DiCaprio turned down a certain project," Bale said. However, it was unclear in the interview whether DiCaprio would have been the first to act in the Batman trilogy if he had wanted to.
The Batman actor obviously doesn't have a grudge against his ten-month younger acting colleague, as he specifically assured "GQ". "I mean, I can't do what he's doing. I wouldn't want the publicity that he's got. And he's doing it brilliantly," said Bale, who began dating Margot Robbie on November 3 in the star-studded crime comedy "Amsterdam" by director David O. Russell on German cinema screens.
