Thank goodness for Out of the Furnace press, because it is also apparently serving as a "State of the Union" on all things Batman for Christian Bale.
Having already openly discussed his advice for Ben Affleck taking on the role, he has now been confronted by MTVabout his Bat-voice. When requested to reflect upon his audition, which is now avaiable on Blu-ray with the latest edition of The Dark Knight Trilogydiscs, Bale both smiled and cringed at recalling how he appeared in that 2003 video while wearing the Batman Forevercostume.
"I got there--they put me in Val Kilmer's suit. It didn't even fit properly, and I stood in it and I went, 'I feel like an idiot.' What kind of guy walks around, dressed like a bat? And is then going to go 'Hello, how are you? Just ignore that I'm dressed as a bat.' Of course, he's meant to be doing this...If you look at the history of the guy and the pain that he went through. I went 'I can't do this in a normal voice. I have to become a beast in order to sell this to myself. I went home that evening. My wife said, 'How'd it go?' I went, 'I kind of did this.' And I showed her, and she went, 'You fucked that one up, didn't you?' Thank God they went for it. It ain't for everybody.Ben's obviously going to have to do his own thing, but it was the only way that I could find how to get into that and to justify wearing the fricking Batsuit. Otherwise, he's just loopy beyond belief. He's loopy, but he's loopy with a method to his madness."
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