Has anyone else noticed how chilled out Christian Bale has been lately? By “chilled out” I mean “he hasn’t raged at anyone (that we know of)” and by “lately” I mean “since he won his Oscar, I think.” Like, these are some photos of Bale, his wife Sibi and their daughter Emmaline a few days ago, out to lunch at Katsuya in Brentwood and… nothing. The paparazzi snapped some photos of Christian with his wife and daughter, and nothing happened. Christian didn’t punch anybody. He didn’t scream at the pap. He didn’t throw anything. Could it be that Christian Bale has matured? Could it be that he’s learned to play the game a little bit? Or maybe he was just tired and he had a full stomach. He seems really dressed down too. His Emmaline is a cutie, isn’t she? It’s not a full-on Dimple Parade, but it’s nice to see Christian out with his girls.
Christian’s post-Batman career is still moving along steadily, just as you would expect, quite honestly. Before, during and after Batman, Christian was and is considered one of the great working actors, so of course he still gets to work on interesting projects. Next up for Bale is a now-untitled film (formerly called American Bullsh-t) reuniting Bale with his Fighter director, David O. Russell. The project is getting buzz because Russell has also signed up his Silver Linings actors for the film too – Jennifer Lawrence was just cast as Bale’s wife and Bradley Cooper got a part too, as did Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. Sounds like a really good ensemble.
And this week, Deadline reported that Bale is “in early talks” to star in a film called Everest, a “mountain climbing disaster film… based on the 1996 disastrous expedition to scale Mount Everest. Three different expeditions were hit by a sudden blinding storm and by the time it was all over, eight climbers died.” Apparently there are like a dozen Everest-themed films in the pipeline at various studios, so don’t get your hopes up. You can read more about the project here.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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Exactly. I don’t care if you’re wearing a wrinkled denim shirt over swishy basketball shorts and mis-matched sneakers, rocking dirty looking long hair and an unkempt beard, Christian – I’d hit it every day from Sunday and imagine the American Psycho hottie version
I second, third, fourth and fifth that emotion, all in the same day and then some. Damn.
his wife resembles Kate Beckinsale.
Yes, she does, and her hair looks fabulous and healthy!
That was the first thing I thought in the first pic of her! I think it might just be these pics, though.
Before I even saw her pic I knew she would be wearing all black, hair parted down the middle, and be smiling. She looks great. But it’s the same in every. flipping. pic.
Their pretty daughter looks just like him!
That’s what I thought too! Its like is you put a wig on him during Empire of the Sun haha
Cute family. He’s one of my favorite actors.
Why does david Russell keep casting the 22? year old Jennifer Lawrence as the wife/love interest of guys who are almost 40? I like her a lot, but are there no 30-40 year old actresses in Hollywood anymore?
I know right? Why not Jessica Chastain if they are aiming for someone “who is hot right now” list. Sheez.
I was thinking the same thing. They’d look ridiculous together.
I’m also disappointed that she got the part of Serena in the movie based off the book Serena, she’s too young for that role and it would’ve been better if an older actress had gotten it. I get that she seems to be the newly anointed it girl, but I wish they’d stop shoving her down our throats.
Not that she is not talented, but now she is “Harvey’s” girl and she will be the go to actress as long as he wants her out there. Afterall, she will probably get an oscar for a part in which she was good, but not great because of Mr. W. (Sounds catty I know, but I hate the politics of oscars and the horrid campaigns.)
Jennifer is overrated. I know it’s not a good argument but I don’t want to get too technical here. She brings no depth to her characters and it makes them one dimensional.
Sadly, as you said, she’s Harvey’s new girl and she’s getting all these roles when really good actresses like Mia Wasikowska or Saorise Ronan who are around her age take the back seat.
Hopefully, things will change and she’ll become the new Gwyneth aka will be trying to be the new Jessica Simpson in 10 years.
Does being Harvey’s girl always translate to doing some … ehem, favors for him in return?
“she’s getting all these roles when really good actresses like Mia Wasikowska or Saorise Ronan who are around her age take the back seat.”
Saorise Ronan just turned 18 but she has her own stream of movies coming out soon, she’s not hurting fir roles. Mia Wasikowska has been given opportunities but she’s too vanilla as an actresses. Doesn’t stand out in films.
I love Mia, she was so good in jane e. I actually am not a big fan of the book, but I thought Michael F. made me get the whole rochester thing finally and Mia stood her ground and played the part with a complexity that impressed me. I put her on the same level of JL in terms of talent, they’ve both shined i projects early on.
@T.C. for your own sanity stay away from JLaw discussions or posts.
Nobody is attacking her here and every time we talk about another actress you bring her down and also attack other users. You have completely lost your ability to think objectively.
I’m not saying this makes it okay, but apparently David O’Russel is rewriting JLaw’s role into a trophy wife to justify the casting.
And on a sidenote I’m younger than JLaw (20 years old) and I totally have a crush on Christian Bale 😀
EXACTLY what I was thinking, Lucy.
No offense to J Law but come on…
Melvin and his wife had a child 12 years old.
Amy Adams is playing the biggest role as the mistress/love interest. The wife is a tiny role, just there to take care of the adopted 12 year old child. Amy Adams will be his real partner in love and crime. Jessica Chastain is too big to play a small throw away wife role anymore.
I completely agree with what you are saying. But I think JLaw looks much older than 22 so maybe that’s why she’s getting so many of the mature roles. Kinda similar to ScarJo. I wish there were more interesting actresses. Mia & Saorise are great actors but they are very bland outside. It seems like Jennifer Lawrence is the only girl who is attractive, talented AND has a great personality. I think all the other girls have 1 or the other but not the entire package.
Actually, those girls are lovely too but they don’t play the game.
Mia is on the cover of a magazine this month and explains why she doesn’t play the game. She’s about art whereas JLaw is more about movie stardom.
“Mia is on the cover of a magazine this month and explains why she doesn’t play the game. She’s about art whereas JLaw is more about movie stardom.”
So Alice in Wonderland was about art? Her new sexual horror film Stroker with Nicole Kidman is about art? LMAO. Mia is trying to break into the mainstream like every other actoress but she’s too vanilla to get any traction. She was great when on “In Treatment” but not on the big screen.
Funny thing is, I think JLaw and Kristen Stewart are the ones who totally look their age. Last week my bff and I were stoned enough to watch Breaking Dawn 2 (you have to be really drunk or stoned so you can laugh at it), and we both noticed how creepy the whole epic vampire love looks when the actress looks like a 16 year old (and the vampire is 100+).
Because Hollywood is ruled by men(mostly middle aged)and they love pairing young chicks with much older guys.
I know right?! I think Jen is a pretty great actress most of the time, but she looks like a child next to Bale. Even when she made out with Cooper in a few scenes in SLP I was kinda like “ick”. Why do they insist on making her out to be the mature love interest in these films when she is barely more than a child? Again nothing against her talent, but let’s not act like the girl doesn’t have a babyface. I was confused when they cast her opposite Cooper, but I’m flat out WTF-ing her with Bale. It sounds ridiculous.
I’ve loved Christian Bale since Newsies. He’s always wonderful to watch. One of my favs.
it was Little Women for me..
I really liked him in Newsies… but began to love him in special ways after Little Women…
Y’all are so late to the party. Try Empire of the Sun! I was 11, he was 14. Most amazing young performance EVER.
Had a crush on him in “Empire of The Sun” but “Swing Kids” took it to the next level for me 🙂
My mom took me to see it in the theatre when I was a little girl. I had such a huge crush on Teddy/Laurie. He was so beautiful.
@Gayle: “Empire of the Sun” precisely!!!! I saw so many times when I was a child, :). Never forgot him, then when I was in my teens I saw him in another movie and recognized him immediately.
OMG, newsies! He’s been my fake boyfriend ever since. My friends and I have seen that movie so many times. My husband refuses to say his name because i always break out in song….Santa Fe, my old friend…..
Gayle got it right with Empire of the Sun. Stunning. I saw it in my early 20s and was like who’d that kid grow up to be, where is he now? Kind of underwhelmed by the commercial batman series after seeing him in Empire, but he is genuinely gifted as an actor.
I saw Little Women first and of course loved it, and Newsies sealed the deal. Always been a fan.
I’ve loved him since Empire of The Sun. I was about his age when I saw the movie. He was my first actor crush, and he’s still one of my favorites.
Good looking family. Let’s hope he’s calmed down.
Dear Hollywood:
Stop hiring barely legal actresses to play opposite much older men.
Thank you.
On a side note, he is a fantastic actor and hopefully his wife forgave him for the AnnE thing.
Hollywood is comprised of older men, and they are casting the younger girls. It’s gross, but it’s pretty telling about what guys want. They want young nubile girls. Women after a certain age are no longer wanted. Barf.
I think he’s cheated on his wife before. She seems like she doesn’t have a life of her own outside of being his wife and raising their kid. She’s not going anywhere.
Team Bale since Newsies.
Im sorry but I think his family is very afraid of him. Im willing to bet he SCREAMS at his wife. I’m surprised she is smiling here. The little girl looks just like him.
I really feel like his mother had a lot to do with attracting attention to that whole thing, and that perhaps he grew up with one or both parents as SCREAMERS. I had one – my dad. I have to work very hard at not defaulting to the total blow up freak out SCREAM. If I were an actor, tho, I might not bother to work on that on set.
We’re all screamers in my family – and we get along just fine. Yell at eachother for a moment, 30 minutes later we’re fine. It’s much healthier than holding a grudge.
Mw, I agree with you but I’d watch my screaming on set too. You don’t want to known as difficult to work with. Not cool!
Christian Bale, and the way his hair naturally falls into a perfect wave around his face, is a great way to start the day. I love him
Interestingly, I recently watched American Psycho again (Bale = creepy awesome) and was surprised to see that Justin Theroux played one of his close coworkers. He was good. I’d forgotten Josh Lucas was in it as well.
I love that movie as well, Justin Theroux had a really good career back then.
Did you know that Tom Cruise was Bale´s inspiration for Patrick Bateman?
Director Mary Harron said “And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.”
http://www.blackbookmag.com/movies/mary-harron-reveals-inspiration-behind-patrick-bateman-1.32455
Wow, his insight is actually very impressive. He figured out Tom was crazy long before the rest of us!
Bale is certainly not bringing the hot in these pictures. Disappointing 🙁
His outfit is horrible. And he looks like he has lady hips.
He looks happy and healthy, and content. That’s GREAT for him. I also like that he’s out, and his daughter is gorgeous! (So is his wife, for that matter.)
I’m on board with others as to the level of ridiculousness that is JLaw being partnered/paired with BCoop, Bale, et al in movies. It’s stupid, and it LOOKS stupid. (Show me the movie where Robin Wright or Sigourney Weaver is boffing the Justin Bieber-look-alike on the regular.)
ps – LOVE the hair!!! 😀
Robin Wright and Naomi Watts have a new movie coming out where they have sex with each other’s teenage sons. I forgot the name. Trailer is on YouTube.
As for Bale Katsuya is paparazzi central so he had to be O.K. with them to go there in the first place. So of course we won’t throw a fit.
I’m gonna have to look into that, thanks!
Really? Sounds interesting. I’m also trying not to giggle ’cause Andy Samberg & J. Timberlake’s Motherlover song immediately comes to mind.
I love how he’s dressed, so “don’t give a sh–” casual. Great actor. Lovely family.
How come as men get older their love interests get younger? Jennifer as is wife? Really? That’s ridiculous and I love me some JLaw. Didn’t she also play BCoop’s wife in the other movie they did together? Not the one she’s nominated for this year, the other one, it’s a period piece. I forget the name.
His wife is gorgeous. And I never knew that was his daughter’s name until just now. He is so private. I love him, especially when his inner rage monster is not on display.
He scares me 🙁
His daughter is adorable, his wife is lovely and he is mine. Period.
I think Jennifer looks older or more mature than she really is. She is a bit of a chameleon in that way and has a natural way of portraying any character.
That’s a very well-made point.
Hmmm, button down shirt with basketball shorts, not a combination I would have thought to put together.
Mmmmm I concur… I have no problem with dressing down, hell even a slob but let’s match our tops and bottoms aye?
I love Christian, and both roles sound interesting. Ugh, why do they cast a 22 year old for a role in which there is a 12 year old son? I like JLaw, but in a world where actresses like Rachel Weisz, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts, and more exist, I find it ridiculous that she keeps getting cast in roles that were originally meant for actresses ten or even twenty years older. Hollywood is really screwed up in that way.
Why do people in Hollywood always eat out in gym gear..? One would think they would be able to afford other types of casual clothing.
+1
I know. What’s with the gym wear for restaurants?
I like a well-dressed person, especially if I go out to a ‘fancy’ place to eat. I have noticed, in Hollywood, that you can tell how famous a person is by how poorly dressed they are.
My father once asked the cliched “is that person homeless?” while pointing at David Spade at the Sunset Tower restaurant.
Well, he’s definitely straight. No gay man (closeted or otherwise) would go out in public dressed like that. 😉
Oh please, I never heard any story about Christian punching anybody or screaming at the pap or throwing anything. So let’s stop with this bullsh*t!
+ 1!
I absolutely adore Christian Bale (as you can easily tell from my name 🙂 Besides the Terminator-set incident we know of no other screaming or throwing-fit (the one with his mother is sth. we know almost nothing of, so it could have easily been sth. blown out of proportion).
On a side note: Good to finally read about a great, intense actor, who has an actual career, besides the likes of Kim K.
Christian is no rage monster. He’s had just that one infamous incident on the set of Terminator: Salvation, right?
Also, I love Revolucian’s Bale Out remix 🙂
I mean wtf, he is not Alec Baldwin.
He apologized for the Terminator incident.
A couple of years ago he verbally assaulted his mother and sister, but they were asking for money and insulting his wife, they prob didn´t have the best relationship to begin with since he chose to live with his dad after his parents got dvorced when he was a teenager.
Right, he’s no Alec Baldwin. The incident with his mother and sister seems one-sided with information getting out from his mother’s side only. Bale has not commented on his relationship with his mother. He definitely likes to keep to himself and more power to him.
Well he did have that issue with screaming at his mother, or some relative and them suing him. It was awhile back, so I don’t recall details.
You definitely don’t remember the details because you have them wrong. 😉 There was yelling, his mother and sister left the hotel and decided later to call the cops on him for verbal assault (nothing physical). No charges laid, no lawsuit. Also that’s how his mother tells the story in the Daily Fail oh sorry Mail where she goes to complain that he won’t take her calls anymore.
I can’t recall one single incident of him having a problem with a photographer so what is Kaiser smoking?
@mia. All righty then.
Weinstein and Rusell are so thirsty for Lawrence. Rusell was also just announced as her director for “The Ends of the Earth” which of course gets produced by the Weinstein company.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-o-russell-direct-jennifer-422457
I am surprised there are no rumors with JL and her current director or with W considering she is single now. I like her, but I find a bit weird people are trying to make her more than she actually is.
Their lovely daughter is going to be tall. And his wife is gorgeous.
His wife is really beautiful – great figure, great hair, great skin – and I love her smile.
I’m surprised this dude has a wife and a family of sorts. I’d take him as a bachelor type, with a different date every night. And he’s insufferable with serious rage issues so that he found a permanent chick is pretty surprising.. She looks like she belongs on Real Housewives though, so she’s probably just a gold diggin whore. Haha. Gossip sites are fun.
Honestly, I’m just going to pretend that I haven’t read your comment. Calling a woman a ‘gold digging whore’ just because you feel like it’s fun, based on absolutely no knowledge about that person… no comment!
Ok, yeah, I get that this is a gossip site, but please, check your facts before you start calling someone a “whore.” They have been together FOREVER-since before he was mega famous. At least since the mid to late 90s (which is when I became a fan) and he was still doing a lot of indies. She is neither gold digging nor a whore, jesus.
Wasn’t there a blind about him and Hathaway having an affair during Batman filming? And then him ignoring her like it never happened?
He looks and sounds like my x. It’s very hard to look at him sometimes. I 1st notice him in Empire Of the Sun and American Psycho got me hooked. Love a family man. You guys should check out Laural Canyon…especially the car scene 😉
OMG I have the same problem with Edward Norton-he looks and sounds EXACTLY like my ex, ESPECIALLY in American History X. Shudder. I can’t even watch his movies anymore because of it.
Oh…Ed was hot in American History X. He’s a wonderful actor
I love Laurel Canyon. Frances McDormand is so great in that.
LOVED that movie and that scene is just smoking! I also love Ed Norton, especially in Fight Club.
I so want to stroke Christian’s hair. His wife’s hair looks gorgeous as well.
Hi J.eyre. *waves*
Jennifer Lawrence is a great actress. She was great as Katniss and is amazing in Winters Bone.
Don’t know about the long sleeved shirt with the training shorts.
he and hathaway’s affair was confirmed by LaineyGossip. If you want to believe her…but I tend to think hers are legit.
People take back their husbands all the time. He and Sibi have been through many many years together.
And, just to say, He is on my permanent 5 list. Excellent method actor.
Agree. His wife is so beautiful. :/
She confirmed it? Can’t believe it!
First that he cheated with Anne Hathaway, don’t know what I think of that…
And then Anne’s always parading around her husband, telling everyone that he’s the love of her life and the best man ever bla bla…can’t believe she wanted to kick him out for Bale! What a hypocrite.
Aaaand imagine you are the wife and find out about the affair because of the media! Awful!
I just want to know what’s going on behind closed doors in Hollywood, they must all secretly laugh when one gives interviews and blatantly lies all the time!
He looks like Russell Crowe 2.0 here.
Their little girl is GORGEOUS.
He is looking very yummy here. Lucky ladies in his life!
I have been soooo in love with christian bale since i seen him in shaft 10 years ago, he is gorgeous, he always looks sooo gorgeous, i wish i was his wife
It’s refreshing to see a so-called “normal” looking Hollywood family out for the day together. They are all so good looking but not over dressed. It’s kind of nice. Although I teased my husband (who loves his basketball shorts) that now he’s trendy because Christian Bale was pictured wearing some…ha ha! Their daughter looks like a nice blend of the two of them.
He has screamed at paparazzi and even at a fan once. Check YouTube 😉
Was his Oscar campaign anything like Anne’s? Cause he reminds me of anne like how emotional he would get everytime he won. Probably not the same but very close. Dang wasn’t that the year she hosted the oscars too and they had just started filming the dark knight rises or something?
Anyways I don’t like him. I used to adore him but can’t stand him anymore.
Actually CB, I’m going to have to disagree with you a bit! I really love Christian Bale and I have through his whole career, long before Batman. And though Christian has had one or two outbursts while working, he generally has a reputation among paparazzi as being pretty easy-going. I mean, he’s definitely no Alec Balwin, haha! If you look back at pictures and videos, Christian usually takes the time to stop and chat with fans and always seems to happily oblige them with pictures and autographs. But he has a reputation among fans and photographers as being a pretty nice guy overall. In fact, I remember a sort of poll amongst paparazzi a year or two ago, where they were asked who was easy to photograph and who was a total pain in the ass, and several of the photogs mentioned Christian Bale as being nice, quiet, and cooperative. I just think he’s a generally nice guy, but very private and kind of quiet. And he seems to really love his family. And his body, oh Lord, haha!! I admit, I have a massive crush:) But seriously, aside from a couple moments where he really lost his temper, he doesn’t really have a reputation as being difficult.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just biased:)
He is one of my favorite actors and I have tremendous respect for him for being also a family man (vs. odd and sleazy guys like Leo Dicaprio) and standing by his wife.
I do think he looks a bit tense or angry in these photos.
He should be happy he has such a successful career and has a daughter and a wife.
I also agree with all the comments about casting a 22 years old with 40 years old men.
I think it’s time that 40 years old men will be cast with 40 years old women like real life.
A guy like BC played in Silver Lining Playbook would never have an interest in a 22 year old gal.
In real life, people want to date and fall for people in their ge group.
The only exception is perhaps older women with younger guys.
Most pairings of older men with younger women are usually more of a gold-digger relationship (or “half-hooker”) which is more common in LA, but still a rather rare sight (statistically) and has nothing to do with love or real relationships and emotions.
Films usually aspire to mimic real relationships and love stories.
Womnder what Anne Hathaway thinks of these pics…..
His wife is so beautiful. I cannot wait to see how he pulls off the NZ accent in the Everest movie