Christian Bale remembers When Fans Laughing On Him

In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Bale said that he would tell people "we're going to sort-of do Batman",

but that he takes him seriously." I had tons of people laughing at me and saying, "Well, that's just going to not work at all."

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Christian Bale As Batman In Trilogy

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