Christian Bale: Batman Is A Monster, But It Hurt To Say Goodbye

'The Dark Knight Rises' was always going to be an emotional end to a journey that's taken the best part of a decade to reach it's conclusion, and if fans are feeling a little then you can bet the stars are too, and none more so than Batman himself, Christian Bale.

Speaking to The Telegraph, he talked about the sad goodbye he bid to his years as the caped crusader, saying: “I don’t like big goodbyes, so I said goodbye to everybody fairly quickly and then sat in the outfit and the cowl for a good 20 minutes, just reflecting what it had meant to me through the years. I finally took them off, knowing I wouldn’t be doing it again, and it was very meaningful.”

Bale seems to have put his heart and soul into the character, and in the interview he spoke of his character like a troubled best friend, one whose demons he wanted to continue to help fight.

Of Bruce Wayne/Batman, Bale said: “He’s filled with remorse, he’s become a recluse, he’s given up and completely quit,” adding: “He’s in very poor health physically and mentally.”

The star continued: “He is not a healthy superhero, he has multiple-personality disorder and is a very sad, lonely individual. He has the public persona of the playboy, and the character of Batman is the personification of his rage and sense of injustice."

Bale spoke about his character as being almost a bad guy, saying: “He’s almost a villain and takes it to the edge, where he can do great wrong, but he has this altruism holding him back from doing that. The reason he dresses in the Batman suit is that he feels monstrous, so he creates a monster to represent that rage and keep it away from his own personal life."

Reading Bales words, one could almost conclude that he has unfinished business with his troubled character, and perhaps that's what made his goodbye all the sadder.

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