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Christian Bale discusses his role as Frankenstein's monster in the upcoming film 'The Bride!', explaining how the character's intense loneliness leads him to find solace and learn about human connection through cinema.
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00:00It seems a natural thing, doesn't it? Someone who's intensely lonely and doesn't know how to communicate with other people.
00:05He has taught himself how to speak, but still people kind of run in fear from him.
00:08That he would turn to the cinema, right? Which, you know, is a common experience.
00:14We don't feel so alone. We're able to experience feelings without having the discomfort of talking about them with other
00:21people.
00:21There's also something great about sitting with other people, staring at the same thing.
00:25People have much better conversations driving in cars together than facing each other over dinner tables, etc.
00:31When you can look in the same way, you talk about deeper things.
00:35So for him, it's that he comes to be best friends in his mind, you know, with Ronnie Reed, played
00:40by Jake Gyllenhaal.
00:41It's sort of a Fred Astaire kind of a character.
00:44And because he's had such an abysmal father in Frankenstein who just completely abandoned him, he's just my most pathetic
00:49individual ever.
00:50He's learning how to be a man from Ronnie Reed.
00:54And so when we first meet him, meeting the bride and meeting Euphronius, he's imitating them.
01:00And then he realizes, oh, they're cut from a whole different cloth.
01:04These women are authentic and they're brilliant.
01:07And he needs to bring more to the table.
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