In a new interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron dryly shares the revelation that Christian Bale’s inspiration for his pretty-damn-legendary performance in her American Psycho was none other than Tom Cruise. What’s more, there is previous online precedent to connect Cruise’s go-getter, ’80s attitude and famous physical regimen with Patrick Bateman’s yuppie, psychopathic shell.
Why does this not surprise me one bit, peep more after the jump.
How did you and Christian Bale develop his character in American Psycho?
Mary Harron: It was definitely a process. [Bale and I] talked a lot, but he was in L.A. and I was in New York. We didn’t actually meet in person a lot, just talked on the phone. We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.
So there it is. The inspiration for one of the looniest, calculating serial killers to grace the silver screen, was inspired by This Guy.
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