Christian Bale
The American Psycho star famously lost out on the role of Jack in Titanic to Leonardo DiCaprio. But he’s not mad.
“Do you know how grateful I am to get any damn thing? I mean, I can’t do what he [DiCaprio] does,” Bale told GQ. “I wouldn’t want the exposure that he has either. And he does it magnificently. But I would suspect that almost everybody of similar age to him in Hollywood owes their careers to him passing on whatever project it is.”
“It doesn’t matter what anyone tells you. It doesn’t matter how friendly you are with the directors,” Bale added. “All those people that I’ve worked with multiple times, they all offered every one of those roles to him first. Right? I had one of those people actually tell me that. So, thank you, Leo, because literally, he gets to choose everything he does.”
Bale still has an extremely impressive resume of films despite losing a few to DiCaprio. These include American Psycho, The Dark Knight trilogy; The Machinist, and his recent Edgar Allan Poe reimagining The Pale Blue Eye.
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