![]() ![]() EW also called Bale one of the "Most Creative People in Entertainment", and "Premiere" lauded him as one of the "Hottest Leading Men Under 30". Subsequently, the 10th Anniversary issue for "Entertainment Weekly" crowned Bale one of the "Top 8 Most Powerful Cult Figures" of the past decade, citing his cult status on the Internet. In the film, Bale played a murderous Wall Street executive obsessed with his own physicality - a trait for which Bale would become a specialist. ![]() Bale roared into the next decade with a lead role in American Psycho (2000), director Mary Harron's adaptation of the controversial Bret Easton Ellis novel. Toward the end of the decade, with the rise of the Internet, Bale found himself becoming one of the most popular online celebrities around, though he, with a couple notable exceptions, maintained a private, tabloid-free mystique. Bale worked consistently through the 1990s, acting and singing in Newsies (1992), Swing Kids (1993), Little Women (1994), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), The Secret Agent (1996), Metroland (1997), Velvet Goldmine (1998), All the Little Animals (1998), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999). Adjusting to fame and his difficulties with attention (he thought about quitting acting early on), Bale appeared in Kenneth Branagh's 1989 adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V (1989) and starred as Jim Hawkins in a TV movie version of Treasure Island (1990). For the range of emotions he displayed as the star of the war epic, he earned a special award by the National Board of Review for Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor. A role in the 1986 NBC mini-series Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986) caught Steven Spielberg's eye, leading to Bale's well-documented role in Empire of the Sun (1987). His first acting job was a cereal commercial in 1983 amazingly, the next year, he debuted on the West End stage in "The Nerd". Bale acknowledges the constant change was one of the influences on his career choice. The family lived in different countries throughout Bale's childhood, including England, Portugal, and the United States. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. Well, let's go back to what I was.Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. The Terminator was just being systematic. Skynet knew almost nothing about Connor's mother. Most of the records were lost in the war. I could make a career out of this guy! You see how clever his part is? How it doesn't require a shred of proof? Most paranoid delusions are intricate, but this is brilliant! Something about the field generated by a living organism. ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology. Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal. Patrol machines built in automated factories. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. It was the machines, Sarah.ĭefense network computers. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. ![]()
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