Christian Bale made his debut in The Nerd with Rowan Atkinson in 1984, he was 10 years old.
In an interview with GQ in 2019, Christian Bale has said that it was Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson who made the biggest impression on him. Bale, who was a child actor, starred in a production of Larry Shue’s play The Nerd with Atkinson in the West End in 1984, when he was 10 years old.
“One of [my] first jobs ever was with Rowan Atkinson and I think I look at him as the template,” he told the magazine. “He would come out, we’d say hello, but he didn’t really socialize. None of us knew him – it was before he did Mr Bean.”
“And he would just become this character, but before he went on stage. And I would just watch him; I would see him becoming a character. I was mesmerized. It dawned on me that was my learning phase. I went, ‘Oh, that’s how it’s done then, is it? OK, great.’”
Bale made his first movie two years later, the made-for-TV Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, with Rex Harrison and Omar Sharif, before landing his breakthrough role, playing Jim Graham in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Empire of the Sun, where he appears in virtually every scene.
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