00:00Christian Bale is equally brilliant and chilling as Patrick Bateman in 2000s
00:05American Psycho, but do you know which celebrity helped to inspire his portrayal?
00:10American Psycho co-writer and director Mary Harron shared in an interview with Black Boog
00:14that she
00:15initially chatted with Bale about how otherworldly the character would seem.
00:19We talked about how
00:20Martian-like Patrick Bateman was. How he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet.
00:25Watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave.
00:28But it wasn't until
00:30later that Bale revealed his celebrity inspiration for the character to Harron, he called me
00:35and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman and he just had this very intense
00:39friendly
00:40consciousness with nothing behind the eyes and he was really taken with this energy.
00:44Now
00:45Tom Cruise's grinning wide-eyed delight has come under scrutiny by some as appearing
00:49exa-
00:50exaggerated and forced in interviews, which perfectly informs the character of Patrick
00:54Bateman.
00:55Can you see Tom Cruise and Bale's performance? Let us know in the comments down below.
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