Christian Bale thought Teresa Palmer was really a stripper during ‘Knight of Cups’
Jessica Burns
When everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Christian Bale, isn’t chewing out set members or losing ridiculous amounts of weight, he just like us; unable to get to a promotional interview on time and mistaking his co-workers for exotic dancers. Christian, who stars in the new Terrence Malick film, Knight of Cups, told the Evening Standard that while filming, he thought his co-star, Teresa Palmer, was an actual stripper:
“We were filming in a strip club, and Teresa Palmer’s there in her little silver hotpants and I’m asking her how long she’d been dancing for? Does she enjoy it? What got her into it? I had no idea that she was an actress until about a week after working with her. Suddenly I saw a billboard with her face on it and I went ‘What?'”
A week after meeting her? Teresa is a pretty, blonde, blue-eyed actress; I get that that description doesn’t exactly set her a part in Hollywood but you know, maybe an introduction? If you have time to chat up a stripper while she’s dancing, you probably had time to shake her hand and say, “I’m Chrispy Bale, I like to take myself too seriously and long, relaxing bubble baths – how about you?” Chrispy is putting the blame on Malick and his kooky directing style, saying he never got a script for King of Cups, he just walked on set and Malick told him to, “figure it out.” I can certainly see why these guys get the big bucks: “You – that one, the guy with the thing on his head – walk somewhere and do something.” However, Malick’s “method” lent itself well to the overall WTF feeling the movie has, apparently.
I cannot wait to hear Teresa’s side of this. Is this interview the first she is hearing that American Freaking Psycho didn’t know who she was? Is that sound I just heard her beautiful bubble being popped under the heel of Chrispy’s ignorance? Teresa may not have the longest resume in Hollywood but she does have a few titles to her name, including Warm Bodies and the upcoming Point Break. I assume the chance to work with Christian Bale was fairly exciting for her and her writer/director husband Mark Webber; can you imagine her side of the story that night? “Oh honey, I really think Christian Bale liked my work! Everything you hear about him is true, he is so method; he acted like I was a real stripper the whole time.”
The only statement Teresa should put out in response is, “Oh my god – that was Christian Bale?!” Somebody get me her publicist.
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