A ladder - in with Trump while shooting a Batman movie — what could go amiss ?
A resurfaced interview has reminded fans of Christian Bale’s confusing encounter with former president Donald Trump while shootingThe Dark Knight Rises.
As I’m sure you know, Christian famously starred as Batman/Bruce Wayne in Christopher Nolan’sDark Knight Trilogy, which started withBatman Beginsin 2005, followed byThe Dark KnightandThe Dark Knight Risesin 2008 and 2012.
The three movies are set in the fictional city of Gotham and were shot in many different locations worldwide. In 2011, filming forThe Dark Knight Risestook the cast and crew to New York City, where they shot scenes in the lobby of Trump Tower — which was used as the backdrop for themain entranceto Wayne Enterprises’ headquarters.
Of course, this was years before Trump’s pivot to politics, and while filming was underway, he invited Christian up to his office, where it sounds like things may have gotten a little confusing.
Christian shared his recollection of these events for the first time in 2018, tellingVarietythat throughout their interaction, the future president talked to him as if he was actually speaking to Bruce Wayne.
Six years after Christian told the story, a fan account reposted hisquotes to Xon June 3. With over 20,000 likes and counting, a whole new audience has been introduced to the story — and let’s just say it’s aged in a way that fans aren’t necessarily surprised by its bizarreness.
Trump intellection Christian Bale was actually Bruce Wayne is very on brand for him .
In the replies, people attempted to imagine what the interaction may have sounded like — and they certainly got creative.
Others wondered if Trump realized thatChristian isn’t even American, or what it might have been like if he’d met him while he was shooting a different one of his movies.
All in all, people found the whole thing pretty fun, and manypraised Christianfor deciding to go along with it — a true Oscar-winner, indeed.
Speakingto Varietyabout the run-in back in 2018, Christian confessed he had “no idea” that the man who talked to him as if he was a fictional comic book character might one day “think about running for president.”
Well, the big question is: Have Ben Affleck, George Clooney, or Robert Pattinson had similar experiences with the former president? How many Bruce Waynes exist in Trump’s multiverse? Who knows?
