Christian Bale Talks 'Batman 5' Role

[Monday, February 23rd, 2004]
Christian BaleChristian Bale has been speaking on his acceptance of the role of Batman for Batman 5. "I wanted to take it because, firstly when I heard that there was a consideration of doing more of the movies, I just felt like I hadn't been quite satisfied with what I'd seen in the other movies. Certainly in the last two." he told the German Bunte website.

"And it seemed as though there was actually a real character here, that it wasn't just a bland kind of superhero, one-dimensional. With him there really was an interesting character to be played. I loved the kind of fantastical notion of the superhero, but at the same time being able to bring a psychologically interesting element to that."

He adds that he was intrigued by the fact that director Chris Nolan was involved, "[he] is not a director I would have expected to do this movie. So that was ideal to me, I liked the fact that the people hiring Chris, hiring myself, were going with people who did want to reinvent the story and have it not just be a continuation."

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