Yahoo News Christian Bale met Donald Trump on set of Dark Knight film: 'He thought I was Bruce Wayne'
Christian Bale has recalled meeting Donald Trump while filming The Dark Knight Rises and says the future president treated him like he was Bruce Wayne.
The actor was speaking on the red carpet for the premiere of political comedy Vice, in which he plays former vice president Dick Cheney, where he revealed he was invited up to his office in Trump Towers during filming on the 2012 sequel.
“We were filming on Batman in Trump Tower and he said, come on up to the office,“ Bale told Variety.
“I think he thought I was Bruce Wayne because I was dressed as Bruce Wayne. So he talked to me like I was Bruce Wayne and I just went along with it, really. It was quite entertaining.“
He continued: “I had no idea at the time that he would think about running for president.”
Bale, who is no stranger to a body transformation for film roles, explained how he consulted a nutritionist for the weight gain required for Vice as opposed to “winging it” like he did for 2004 film The Machinist, which saw him lose 63 lbs. Shortly after, he piled back on 100 lbs for the role of the caped crusader in 2005 film Batman Begins.
The 50 best movie insults
The 50 best movie insults
1/50 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
"Hey, where'd you get those clothes, the toilet store?"
DreamWorks Pictures
2/50 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
"How could you sleep with Fat Bastard? No, I mean, literally, how could you do it? He's so fat, the sheer mechanics of it are mind-boggling."
New Line Cinema
3/50 Avengers Assemble (2012)
"This is my bargain, you mewling quim."
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
4/50 The Breakfast Club (1985)
"Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?"
Universal Pictures
5/50 Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
"If staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse."
Universal Pictures
6/50 Bull Durham (1988)
"From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a f***ing boat."
Orion Pictures
7/50 Burn After Reading (2008)
"I have a drinking problem? F*** you, Peck. Compared to you we all have a drinking problem."
Macall Polay
8/50 The Cat in the Hat (2003)
"Do you know how hard it is telling people we’re related?"
DreamWorks Pictures
9/50 Closer (2004)
"Go f*** yourself, you WRITER!"
Columbia Pictures
10/50 Clueless (1995)
"You’re a virgin and you can’t drive."
Paramount Pictures
11/50 Con Air (1997)
"You're somewhere between a cockroach and that white stuff that accumulates at the corner of your mouth when you're really thirsty."
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
12/50 The Death of Stalin (2017)
"You smell like rendered horse, you burning a**hole."
eOne Films
13/50 Donnie Darko (2001)
"You can go suck a f***."
Pandora Cinema
14/50 Duck Soup (1933)
"He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you – he really is an idiot."
Paramount Pictures
15/50 Easy A (2010)
"Don't you think it's a little strange that your boyfriend is 22-years-old and still in high school?"
Screen Gems
16/50 Erin Brockovich (2000)
"That's all you got, lady - two wrong feet and f***ing ugly shoes."
Columbia Pictures
17/50 A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people."
18/50 Full Metal Jacket (1987)
"You climb like old people f***, Private Pile."
Columbia–Cannon–Warner
19/50 Gangs of New York (2002)
"I don’t give a tuppeny f*** about your moral conundrum, you meat-headed s*** sack.”
Miramax Films
20/50 Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
"You're in more dire need of a blowjob than any white man in history"
Buena Vista Pictures
21/50 The Hangover (2009)
"You are literally too stupid to insult."
Warner Bros. Pictures
22/50 His Girl Friday (1940)
"Listen, you insignificant, square-toed, pimple-headed spy!"
Columbia Pictures
23/50 Home Alone (1990)
"You're what the French call: 'les incompetents'."
DON SMETZER/20TH CENTURY FOX/The Kobal Collection/WireImage.com
24/50 In Bruges (2008)
"YOU'RE AN INANIMATE F***ING OBJECT!"
Universal Studios/Focus Features
25/50 In the Loop (2009)
"Allow me to pop a jaunty little bonnet on your purview and ram it up your a*** with a lubricated horse c***."
IFC Films
26/50 Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
"I should have had you wear double condoms. Well, we shouldn't have done it in the first place, but if you ever do it again, which as a favour to women everywhere, you should not, but if you do, you should be wearing condom on condom, and then wrap it in electrical tape. You should just walk around always inside a great big condom because you are s***!"
CBS Films
27/50 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Perry: "Look up 'idiot' in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?"
Harry: "A picture of me?"
Perry: "No! The definition of the word idiot, which you f***ing are."
REX
28/50 Knocked Up
"Your face looks like Robin Williams' knuckles.”
29/50 The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
"My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102 and when she'd been dead three days, she looked better than you do now."
Warner Bros.
30/50 Matilda (1996)
"Your mummy is a TWIT."
TriStar Pictures
31/50 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
EMI Films
32/50 Parenthood (1989)
"I wouldn't live with you if the world were flooded with piss and you lived in a tree."
Universal Pictures
33/50 Phantom Thread (2018)
"Are you a special agent sent here to ruin my evening and possibly my entire life?"
REX
34/50 Point Break (1991)
"You're a real blue flame special, aren't you, son? Young, dumb and full of cum. What I don't know is how you got assigned here. Guess we must just have ourselves an asshole shortage, huh?"
REX
35/50 The Princess Bride (1987)
"I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon."
Vestron Pictures
36/50 Roxanne (1987)
"Is that your nose or did a bus park on your face?"
REX
37/50 Scarface (1983)
"Even if I were blind, desperate, starved and begging for it on a desert island, you'd be the last thing I'd ever f***."
Universal Pictures
38/50 Sexy Beast (2000)
"You're the f***ing problem you f***ing Dr White honkin' jam-rag f***ing spunk-bubble!"
REX
39/50 She's All That (1999)
"To everyone here who matters, you're spam. You're vapour. A waste of perfectly good yearbook space."
Miramax Films
40/50 Shrek (2000)
"You dense, irritating, miniature beast of a burden."
REX
41/50 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?"
Orion Pictures
42/50 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
"Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder."
20th Century Fox
43/50 Step Brothers (2008)
"You're not a doctor. You're a big fat curly headed f***."
REX
44/50 There Will Be Blood (2007)
"You're just the afterbirth, Eli, slithered out on your mother's filth. They should have put you in glass jar on a mantelpiece."
Paramount Vantage/Miramax Films
45/50 Three Amigos (1986)
"You dirt-eating piece of slime. You scum-sucking pig. You son of a motherless goat."
Orion Pictures
46/50 Toy Story (1995)
"You are a sad strange little man, and you have my pity."
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
47/50 Whiplash (2014)
"You are a worthless, friendless, piece of shit whose mommy left daddy when she figured out he wasn't Eugene O'Neill, and who is now weeping and slobbering all over my drum set like a f***ing nine-year old girl."
REX
48/50 Withnail & I (1987)
"Monty, you terrible c***."
HandMade Films
49/50 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
"You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk!"
Loew's, Inc.
50/50 The Women (1939)
"You wanna see a bad facelift? Helen Danvers, two o'clock. She looks like she's re-entering the Earth's atmosphere."
REX
“This is the first time I actually did go to a nutritionist cause I’m starting to feel my mortality,” he said. “I did decide, ‘You know what, I might die, so maybe I should go to see someone who actually knows what they’re talking about instead of just winging it,’ which is what I’ve always done.”
Vice has become an awards frontrunner in the past month. Ot generated positive feedback following its first screening in November, and earned six Golden Globe nominations last week, establishing it as a Oscar Best Picture favourite alongside the likes of Roma and A Star is Born.
The film co-stars Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell and Tyler Perry , and sees Bale reunite with The Big Short director Adam McKay.
In recent years, Bale has openly criticised his performance in the Dark Knight trilogy, admitting he "didn't quite manage what [he] hoped [he] would" with the role.
It'll be released in the UK on 25 January, a month after its us release date.
