By Ben Child, The Guardian
Christian Bale’s suggestion for new Batman Ben Affleck was simple: going to the toilet in costume is a humiliating experience.
‘Don’t think of water. Don’t think of water. Don’t think of water’ … Christian Bale as Batman.
He has battled villains the Joker, the Penguin and Ra’s al Ghul and saved the city of Gotham countless times, but Christian Bale has told incoming Batman Ben Affleck that the hardest thing about playing the caped crusader is going to the toilet.
Bale, who became one of Hollywood’s best-known stars during his three-film run as the DC Comics superhero, was asked if he had offered any advice to Affleck in the wake of the latter’s casting in the upcoming “Superman vs Batman” movie. His advice: avoid getting caught short in the Batsuit.
“The only thing I said to him was to make sure to [be able to] take a piss without having anyone help him, because it’s a little bit humiliating,” Bale told Access Hollywood during promotional duties for his new film Out of the Furnace. “You have to have someone … help you out of the costume in order to be able to do that. So that was my main piece of advice for him.”
In a separate interview for MTV, Bale revealed he came up with the deep-throated growl adopted by Batman during the Christopher Nolan years in order to help lose himself in the role.
Read the full article by Ben Child from the Guardian.
