Christian Bale is currently gearing up for his star-studded feature Amsterdam. He sarcastically credited Leonardo DiCaprio for his career and the roles he has done. He unconvincingly revealed that he and many actors owe their cinematic careers to Leonardo DiCaprio after he refused those roles. Bale gave an elaborate statement in an interview with GQ.
Christian said, “Look, to this day, any role that anybody gets, it’s only because he’s passed on it beforehand. It doesn’t matter what anyone tells you. It doesn’t matter how friendly you are with the directors. All those people that I’ve worked with multiple times, they all offered every one of those roles to him first. So, thank you, Leo, because literally, he gets to choose everything he does. And good for him, he’s phenomenal.”
Bale also asserted that he has no problem with casting directors choosing Leonardo as their first choice for films. “No. Do you know how grateful I am to get any damn thing? I mean, I can’t do what he does. And he does it magnificently. But I would suspect that almost everybody of similar age to him in Hollywood owes their careers to him passing on whatever project it is.”
For the unversed, the role of the axe-wielding serial killer Patrick Bateman in the 2000 horror film American Psycho, which led Christian Bale to mainstream success was refused by Leonardo DiCaprio. Reportedly, he turned down the offer initially, and later the baton was passed on to Bale.
Bale said, “I remember one time sitting in the makeup trailer and the makeup artists were laughing at me because I was getting paid less than any of them. Nobody wanted me to do the film apart from director Mary Harron, which contributed to his lower wage.”
“They said they would only make it if they could pay me that amount. I was prepping for it when other people were playing the part. I was still prepping for it. And, you know, it moved on. I lost my mind. But I won it back,” he concluded.
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