Christian Bale has opened up about his The Dark Knight co-star Heath Ledger who died after the film wrapped. “I want to talk about Heath,” Bale tells the upcoming issue of Parade magazine. “When you miss somebody, you want to speak about him.”

“He was a unique character, a very infectious character. He was a good man, and I was glad to have spent time with him. He was somebody who I’d been seeing on a daily basis for months,” Bale says in Parade. “It takes a long time to accept that someone’s gone, when all body and mind are telling you that this is somebody you will know for a great deal of time. He was something of a kindred spirit to myself.”

Why has Bale chosen to openly discuss such a painful loss?

“Much of it has to do with my respect for his daughter, whom he loved so dearly and whom he would talk about so often. For me, that is of incredible importance.”

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Heath Ledger And Christian Bale

Heath Ledger’s co-star Christian Bale insists the late star has one final shock in store for fans when he appears as comic book villain The Joker in the Batman Begins sequel. In an interview given just before Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment on Tuesday, Bale told reporters the Aussie star would stun film fans with his dark portrayal as Batman’s arch-villain in The Dark Knight.He said, “Heath’s an incredible actor and he’s brought a very, very scary Joker to life. It’s shocking. He’ll shock you. Heath will shock you.” Meanwhile, toxicology reports won’t be back for another 8 days. An autopsy has proved inconclusive. Ledgers body has been transported to a New York City Funeral Home where arrangements are pending. Paparazzi are spending a all night vigil outside the funeral home awaiting Ledgers parents and estranged wife to claim the body.

Christian Bale, 33, and his daughter Emmaline, 2 1/2, are pictured together in Santa Monica. Mom is Sandra “Sibi” Blazic - the couple have been married 8 years.

Bale is best known for his roles in the films Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, Equilibrium, The Machinist and Batman Begins.

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Christian Bale is eighteen times cooler than you, or anyone you will ever meet. This is a fact.

Most Americans have no idea he’s actually a Brit
Critics and directors frequently lament that there are few, if any, truly great new American actors. And with people like Christian Bale not only tricking a good percentage of the

He’s insanely committed to looking the part
It’s all a matter of public record now, but Christian Bale lost sixty pounds to play the part of Trevor Reznik in The Machinist. Considering Bale’s last film was Equilibrium, a high-powered action shootemup, the man went from this

He was Batman
And he was the only actor to play him the way he should have been played. Clooney admits he accidentally played the character as gay, Val Kilmer played Bruce Wayne exactly the same as the Batman, and Michael Keaton somehow sucked all the charisma out of Bruce Wayne.

Bale effectively handled the charm and affluence of Bruce Wayne whilst simultaneously turning Batman into a completely separate character who, for the most part, scares the shit out of the audience just as much as he does the baddies. Granted, sometimes his animalistic grunts border on cartoony, but no one can deny the sheer ass-tightening badassity of his reply to a thug who spills his guts and swears to God: “Swear to ME!”

Bale’s Batman is a good guy, but not so good that you’d want to spend more time around him than absolutely necessary. He’s everything that Batman should be: heroic, yet terrifying.

And Bateman
Let’s not forget one of Bale’s best performances ever; that of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. As the story goes, dozens of young actors auditioned for the role of Bateman, but all tried to play him up as a psychopathic womanizer – in other words, they all tried to give him actual character. After many underwhelming auditions by other performers, Bale played the character exactly has was written: with a complete lack of personality.

Everything Bateman says has been stolen from some other source: he reads music magazines so he knows about Huey Lewis (“The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost”), he listens to newsradio so he can pretend to be up on world events (“Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger”), and even when his true, homicidal nature reveals itself (“I like to dissect girls. Did you know I’m utterly insane?”), he still talks like a game show host.

He’s in Rescue Dawn
Bale also spends the majority of his time in the film next to a character played by Steve Zahn, which means that – somehow – Christian Bale has the ability to stand in the presence of Steve Zahn for more than an hour and a half without punching him in the ballsack (an impulse neither Matthew McConaughey nor Tom Hanks could resist). This incredible amount of self-control should, for all intents and purposes, be rewarded with a medal of honor.