According to Mary Harron, who directed the 2000 film, Chrisitan came up with the idea of using Tom as inspiration for playing serial killer Patrick Bateman after seeing him appear on the Late Show with David Letterman.

“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,” Harron told The Courier Mail this week.

“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,” she said.

Christian Bale was “tempted” to take steroids in a bid to build his physique for some of his early film roles.

The actor says he considered experimenting with the dangerous substances when he was trying to bulk up for roles in American Psycho and Batman Begins.

“I was lifting really heavy weights that I could never dream of lifting now and probably never will again,” the razor-tongued Brit admitted in the June issue of Esquire Magazine.

“A number of people have said, ‘You could never have done that without some kind of steroids.’ Not to say I wasn’t tempted,” Christian confessed.

“When I was getting ready for ‘American Psycho’ I’d never been in a gym in my life and I was working out like crazy, so I thought, ‘Maybe it ain’t such a big deal, just take some ‘roids’ and I can speed up this whole process.’”

Christian was deterred from purchasing the illegal drugs after being warned of potential side effects.

He explained: “I called up the store where they’re selling that sort of stuff and asked, ‘Have you used it? And side effects?’ ‘No no. I mean, really minimal. Your balls might shrink and you might get acne.’ I’m like, there’s no way in hell I’m going to touch anything like that and damn those who think I did.”

Public Enemies, the upcoming Prohibition-era crime drama starring Christian Bale and Johnny Depp, just got a trailer.

Just when you thought Best Christian Bale Mash-Up Honors would go to the Bill O’Reilly vs. Christian Bale video, FOX’s animated smash Family Guy unveiled its own parody of the American Psycho star’s famous spazz out on the set of Terminator: Salvation.

In an interview with L.A.’s KROQ-FM on Friday, actor Christian Bale publicly apologized for his profanity-laced rant on the set of Terminator: Salvation last summer.

After a week of unrelenting press coverage in the wake of his leaked onset rant, The Dark Knight star says he takes full responsibility for the explosive tirade, which was leaked online on Monday.

“It’s been a miserable week for me,” Bale told hosts Kevin Ryder and Gene “Bean” Baxter. “Listen, I know I have a potty mouth, everybody knows this now.”

“The thing that I really want to stress is I have no confusion whatsoever. I was out of order beyond belief. I was way out of order. I acted like a punk. I regret that. There is nobody that has heard that tape that’s been hit harder by it than me. I make no excuses for it. It is unexcusable. I hope that that is absolutely clear.”

Listen To Christian’s Apology on KRQO-FM

James Lipton reinacted the Christian Bale tirade on Wednesday’s Conan.

Well, you knew it was coming. The profanity-laced Christian Bale rant that shocked fans on Monday has gone viral and has now been turned into a funky trance remix by Los Angeles-based DJ, RevoLucian.

The track is called “Bale Out.”

The audio of Dark Knight star verbally assaulting a co-worker on the set of Terminator: Salvation last Summer was a hot topic of debate on The TODAY Show on Tuesday.

The on-the-set rant came about after the film’s director of photography, Shane Hurlbut, accidentally entered Christian’s sight-line during filming.

According to TODAY, the 35-year-old actor dropped the F-bomb 36 times during the nearly 4-minute meltdown.

Christian Bale has lost his damn mind!

TMZ has posted the most scary audio of The Dark Knight star having a profanity-laced coronary on the set of Terminator: Salvation last Summer.

According to TMZ, all Hell broke loose on the set after a director of photography, Shane Hurlbut, accidentally ruined a scene by walking onto the set. Bale went bonkers, cursing, raving, and threatening to quit if movie bosses didn’t fire the poor sap.

“I want you off the f***ing set, you pr***,” Christian says in the audio, recorded at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.

“I’m sorry,” Hurlbut replies.

“No, don’t just be sorry. Think for one f***king second,” Bale reportedly shouts. “What the f*** are you doing? Are you a professional or not?”

“Yes, I am.”

“No, no. Am I gonna f***ing rip your lights down in the middle of the scene? What the f*** is it with you? What the f*** don’t you understand?”

He continues,

“You got any f***ing idea about… Hey, it’s f***ing distracting having somebody walking up behind Bryce [Dallas Howard] in the middle of the f***ing scene. Give me a f***ing answer. What don’t you get about it?”

This guy’s a real piece of work. How dare he speak to another human being that way! Oh hell no. This kind of outburst will get the snot kicked out of you where I’m from.

Click Here To Listen To Christian Bale’s Cursing Rant–Extreme Language, Very NSFW!!