CHRISTIAN BALE 'REFUSES TO SPEAK TO CO-STARS ON SET' AND HAS SOME DEVASTATING CAREER PLANS

Christian Bale is one of Hollywood's biggest stars with a chameleon-like ability to completely transform into totally different characters, a skill he shares with fellow British acting legends Gary Oldman and Sir Daniel Day-Lewis. As a result, some people are very surprised when you tell them Christian Bale is Welsh. The 48-year-old is well known for having mastered a whole range of American accents across his roles that it's easy to forget he wasn't born across the pond. The star made his breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg's 1987 war film Empire of the Sun at just 13 before grabbing attention as an adult with his standout performance as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

Although he denies it, Bale has been called a method actor for his extreme physical transformations in some of his roles. From building up a muscular superhero physique for The Dark Knight trilogy as Batman to getting dangerously skinny for The Machinist and piling on the pounds to play Dick Cheney in Vice.

For one of his skinner parts in The Fighter, he won the Best Actor Oscar and Golden Globe in 2011. And most recently he received critical praise for playing Marvel villain Gorr the God Butcher in Thor Love and Thunder, while his latest role is as a doctor in the all-star cast of Amsterdam. The likely awards season contender is based on the Business Plot, a 1933 political conspiracy in which a doctor, a nurse (Margot Robbie) and a lawyer (John David Washington) are caught up in the murder of a US senator.

Joining them in the incredible ensemble are Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Sadaña, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Taylor Swift, Rami Malek, Robert De Niro and more.

Yet despite the glowing cast, Bale has confessed that he avoids his co-stars on set, telling GQ: "I'm literally like: 'I can't do this because I will be the worst actor you've ever seen if we keep on chatting, you know, with Amsterdam, I had to say that to Chris Rock. I had to go there and say that to him. I f***ing love his stand-up. And when he arrived I was like, 'Ah, wow, great. Yeah, how you doing, man?' Chatting a little bit. And then I went to do a scene, and I went, 'Oh, my God. I'm just Christian, standing here, being a fan of Chris Rock.' So I went to him. I went, 'Mate, I got to keep my distance.' Have you tried swimming and laughing at the same time? I don't know about you. I'd drown. I cannot laugh and swim at the same time. It's that. So I had to, much as I would've loved to have kept on chatting and talking."

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Bale also admitted that after making Marvel movie Thor Love and Thunder, he really couldn't stand green-screen.

The star said: "I mean, the definition of it is monotony. You've got good people. You've got other actors who are far more experienced at it than me. Can you differentiate one day from the next? No. Absolutely not. You have no idea what to do. I couldn't even differentiate one stage from the next. They kept saying, 'You're on Stage Three.' Well, it's like, 'Which one is that?' 'The blue one.' They're like, 'Yeah. But you're on Stage Seven.' 'Which one is that?' 'The blue one.' I was like, 'Uh, where?'"

Meanwhile, Bale is desperate to quit acting and has been trying to retire for some time.

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Bale added: "More than content: f***ing ecstatic, I've always been bent on 'When's this gonna end? This has to end.' I like doing things that have nothing to do with film. And I find myself very happily not playing dress-up, not pretending to be somebody else for long lengths of time."

Sir Daniel Day-Lewis announced his retirement after Phantom Thread, so maybe that could be the cards for him too?

The November issue of British GQ is available via digital download and on newsstands on 25th October.

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