Christian Bale’s ‘American Psycho’ Inspiration: Tom Cruise
*Now doesn’t this just make perfect sense? I always wondered where Christian Bale got the inspiration from for his super charged role in ‘American Psycho”..I can so see Tom Cruise like this is he went nuts all of a sudden. *
We hope that no one is really as soulless as Patrick Bateman, but Christian Bale’s performance in 2000′s ‘American Psycho’ was so frighteningly believable he must have had some real-life inspiration. Turns out Bale studied Tom Cruise’s mannerisms to bring the clean-cut murder addict to life.
The movie’s director, Mary Harron, revealed in an interview with BlackBook:
We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.
*Christian Bale himself seems to have some of the qualities of Patrick Batemen himself, he shouldn’t lay this ALL on Cruise. Remeber his meltdown a year ago on the set of ‘Terminator Salvation’ ?