By ROGER MOORE
ORLANDO, Fla. - "I don't analyze myself, or what people think about me," Christian Bale says, pretty much any time any conversation with him even hints at turning "personal."He doesn't know how much his profile changed after he landed the lead in the Batman / Dark Knight movies. He can't say if his actor's actor reputation was burnished by adding an Oscar (for 2010's "The Fighter") to his mantle. He isn't self-reflective that way. And he isn't sharing.
"I don't want to know too much about how it was made or much about the person acting in it," he explains. "It depresses the (bleep) out of me to get into an actor's head. Completely unnecessary. It's a distraction, a thorn in the side of any performance."
He doesn't want filmgoers thinking about this bit of gossip or that snippet of viral audio about him. Obliterate his brooding take on the Dark Knight from your memory. He wants us to attempt what he himself shoots for, with every new film - to think about only "the work."
And after his raw, moving and yet amusing award-winning turn in "The Fighter," maybe that's his due.
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