T4 : Bale Said No to McG

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節錄其中跟 Bale 有關的部份的話...

McG 找 Bale 進 T4 的過程是帶著些許火藥味的。McG 說「我飛到倫敦試探他是否願意當 John Connor」。Bale，這位演出『黑暗騎士』而且讓這部片成了票房強片的演員在讀了腳本後只給了這位導演一句話「去你的！」。不過 Bale 臨走之前給 McG 的最後一擊就是「把劇本搞到能夠上舞台朗讀演出的程度，去掉特效，去掉爆炸，然後我就願意參加」。隨後，McG 聘請 Johnathon Nolan（『黑暗騎士』、『記憶裂痕』）參與腳本的撰寫，這也成了讓 Bale 點頭答應的原因。

McG 啊，你花了那麼多心力把 Bale 請進來演，
就該好好保護你的演員吧！
人家還要跟你演兩集耶！

McG's introduction to Bale was itself kind of salty. "I'd flown to London to gauge whether he was interested in the John Connor role," says McG. Bale, whose work in The Dark Knight had helped that film become a mega-blockbuster, read the script and told the director to "fuck right off," says McG. But Bale left the door open a crack: "Get the script to a place where we can read it on a stage like a play, with no effects, no explosions, then I'll do it." McG hired Jonah Nolan (The Dark Knight, Memento) to evolve the script, which eventually won Bale over.

我還是比較想看 "Public Enemies"，雖然 Bale 只是配角...
所以 McG 就是聽了...呃...那個 "Fxxx right off" 後去 pub 藉酒消愁啊。