EW about Christian Bale

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看到 IMDb 上面說這期的 Entertainment Weekly 有為了 Oscar 的 Bale 相關介紹。原文在上面，翻譯在下面

Best Supporting Actor
***The Frontrunner***
Christian Bale in The Fighter

Age 37

Role Dicky Eklund, the charming but troubled mama’s boy who’s the key to the title hopes of his boxing half brother (Mark Wahlberg).

Oscar History First nomination.

Them’s Fighting Words Bale captured the squirrelly vibe of boxer Micky Ward’s ne’er-do-well half brother so well that townies in Lowell, Mass., occasionally mistook the actor for Eklund himself. But at least one local didn’t much care for Bale’s devotion to detail: Ward’s trainer -- and Lowell police officer -- Mickey O’Keefe, who portrayed himself in the movie. True to the relationship depicted on film, O’Keefe and Eklund can barely stand to be in the same room with each other. After Bale observed that dynamic, the actor began improvising in his first scene with O’Keefe and poking fun at the cop. “You could see it was really pissing Mickey off,” recalls director David O. Russell. “O’Keefe’s sitting there with his finger over his mouth, like he’s reliving the past with Dicky, and Christian plugged right into that. That scene [later] where he yells at Dicky, and the veins are sticking out of his neck, I think it was very cathartic for O’Keefe. He could’ve done that all day.”

Up Next Bale stars in Zhang Yimou’s big-budget Chinese epic The 13 Women of Nanjing before appearing as Batman in 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises.

最佳男配角
*** 呼聲最高者 ***
Christian Bale

年紀：37
角色：Dicky Eklund，深受媽媽寵愛的迷人大男孩，不可救藥的他是同母異父兄弟 (Mark Wahlberg) 奪取拳王寶座的希望

奧斯卡：這是他第一次的提名

鬥志的插曲：Bale 抓到了 Micky Ward 同母異父那無可救藥兄弟的古怪精神，甚至連麻州 Lowell 的居民們都曾將這名演員誤認為真正的 Eklund。不過，有個當地人卻不太理會 Bale 的這股熱情，那就是 Micky Ward 的訓練師之一的，也是 Lowell 的警官 -- Mickey O'Keefe，O'Keefe 也在電影中飾演他自己。就像電影中所顯示的，O'Keefe 與 Eklund 可說是水火不容看彼此不順眼。在發現到兩人關係後，Bale 於是在與 O'Keefe 的第一場戲中加入了一些即時的演出，他譏笑著那名警官。David O' Russell 說「你可以看出 O'Keefe 真的很不爽。O'Keefe 坐著時他的手指壓著他的嘴唇，就好像他在體驗著他與 Dicky 以前的互動。Christian 也模仿著 O'Keefe 的動作。那場戲之後，O'Keefe 對著 Dicky 咆嘯，你真的可以看到在 O'Keefe 脖子上的青筋都快爆出來了。那對 O'Keefe 來說是個很好的發洩，他可是有辦法那麼發狂一整天的。」

接下來：Bale 會在張藝謀的高預算史詩級電影「十三金釵」中演出，之後他會在 2012 年上映的 The Dark Knight Rises 再次成為 Batman