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Volume 33 Monday, October 4, 2004 Page 1 of 1

CHRISTIAN BALE INTERVIEW

This is from about.com

About: How cool is the Batmobile?

Bale: I think they did a really wonderful job with it. I’m quite in awe of the men who engineered and designed the whole thing because I’m not really good at any of that kind of thing. And they created actually a one of a kind car that can actually genuinely do all of the things in the movie. That was very much the aim of everybody on the set, that we wanted to use as little CGI or models as possible.

About: You can actually drive it?

Bale: Oh yeah, I did. It does everything. They all do different things. There’s a number of different ones, but they all do everything that you see it do in the movie.

About: What are your favorite Bat gadgets?

Bale: I don't think it’s quite as gadget heavy. We have the introduction of how he acquires all of these. We’re very much interested in looking into how Bruce Wayne manages to acquire everything. And I guess there’s a grappling gun which is the kind of most commonly used one. That was the one I actually had in hand each and every day.

About: Is there any pressure with last two movies not being perceived well, that you’re responsible for
reinventing the franchise?

Bale: I didn’t feel it.

About: How does the suit fit and how long was that fitting process?

A: Very extensive, very laborious but ending up with it fitting absolutely perfectly. There’s a whole team of people whose job it is just to make sure that it is looking right and working right and there’s a conveyor belt process of creating these suits. It’s very involved and it has progressed since the first movie.

About: How much mobility do you have in it?

Bale: It’s pretty mobile, yeah. I could do everything I had to do in the movie. I believe it’s Neoprene.

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