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![]() So after every single take, he would ask me if I was OK and not everyone does that. Not everyone gets to have a fight with Batman. ![]() In one scene, “we ended up kind of coming to blows a little bit, which just in itself was quite cool. “Echoing what Lucy was saying about Christian’s consideration for everyone’s comfort and well-being … I had first-hand experience with that,” Lawtey added. “It allows you just to really enjoy it and kind of explore.” “I think there’s something really satisfying about working with people like Christian and Scott Cooper who take their work very seriously, and it gives permission to everyone else to do the same, to really go 100 per cent into it and invest everything, and try something that is so conducive to a creative work environment,” said Boynton. Lawtey called it a “dream come true” working with Bale, whom he described as “a generous, respectful collaborator, completely leading by example.” Both Boynton and Lawtey noted that the actor was always looking out for his cast and crew. “She was so interesting as a character to unravel and unpack … The character takes such a turn and it was a really beautiful and interesting journey to kind of piece together.” “I think she’s a really great example of that,” Boynton said of Lea. “Every day was a joy turning up on set and getting to work out what was gonna happen.”Īsked what he would sing to Melling, Bale, 48, mentioned “a certain wardrobe piece that reminded me of that mouse Fievel in ‘An American Tail’ and so I would sing that song ‘Somewhere Out There’ to Harry right before an important take and then walk away trying to look innocent,” he laughed.įor Lucy Boynton, who plays Lea Marquis, Poe’s potential love interest, choosing roles is about having an emotional response to characters and whether there’s something to be said. “The song was extremely useful,” said Melling. I would occasionally just sing silly songs and probably throw him off his game more than help him with his game. He just became Poe to me,” Bale said of Melling. He was tapping into something that was hypnotizing. But the Oscar winner preferred to lighten the mood off-screen, and it involved singing a song or two. That was a very useful insight when I started working on who Poe might be.”īale and Melling share the screen much of the time as their characters work together on solving the case. “So when he meets Landor, I think he offers him the things that he’s been searching for: a sense of home, a sense of belonging, a sense of feeling like he has a family. “He was very much trying to make his own way in the world and had a very nomadic existence,” Melling said. He discovers during this film that no matter how successful you become, how experienced you are, you are still at the mercy of others and it’s young Poe, who’s fiercely intelligent, who really teaches him that,” Bale said.Ĭooper, who calls Bale his closest friend and collaborator, believes he was able to tap into a different aspect of the actor. But he’s certainly someone who believes himself to be entirely in control of himself and of his life. “He’s accustomed in that era to his detective work sometimes leading to beating confessions out of people. ![]() He’s someone of high intelligence, but he can also be quite a thug. ![]() He’s very intelligent, but he hides that in his mannerisms, in his way of speaking and just his bearing. He’s someone who doesn’t like to be known. “He’s been an incredibly successful detective. “We’re looking at a man who believes that all of his stories are behind him,” Bale said in a video interview. Due to the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case: a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).īale’s performance is restrained and observant, one that the actor enjoyed layering. With this trio of films, Bale says they “really journeyed into the ethics of revenge … that Scott and I have been fascinated by and wanting to find answers to.”īased on the novel by Louis Bayard, “The Pale Blue Eye” is set at West Point in 1830 and follows detective Augustus Landor (Bale) who is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. This movie, which streams Friday, is Bale’s and Cooper’s third together they previously worked on “Out of the Furnace” (2013) and “Hostiles” (2017). Christian Bale seems to have a fascination with portraying characters haunted by their pasts as the actor steps into such a role in the Netflix thriller “The Pale Blue Eye,” written and directed by Scott Cooper. ![]()
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