Christian Bale claims that in addition to playing a major role in David O. Russell’s 2013 film “American Hustle,” he also acted as a “mediator” between the filmmaker and co-star Amy Adams.
In a cover article for GQ that was released on Wednesday, Bale, 48, said that the claims that he stepped in to help Adams during filming were accurate.
He spoke to his role in the dramatisation of the FBI’s Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, saying, “I did what I felt was right, in very Irv manner.
He continued, “If I can get a sense of where it’s coming from, then I do tend to want to be a mediator.” “Trying to say, “Hey, come on, let’s go and sit down and figure that out,” is simply in my nature. There must be a solution to make everything work.
During the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, an email exchange between writer Jonathan Alter and his brother-in-law, former Sony CEO Michael Lynton, was exposed. In the email, the former alleged that actor Russell, 64, “so mistreated” Adams on the set of the movie
Alter wrote to Lynton that “His abuse and insane behaviour are severe even by Hollywood standards.”
Adams, 48, responded to the allegation in 2016 and called Russell’s work ethic “crazy.” The actress remembers the director “yelling” at her and making her weep practically every day in an interview with British GQ.
“He definitely treated me harshly. It was a lot at the moment, she remarked. On set, I was merely devastated.
Bale claimed he does not view the production with tainted eyes in spite of what transpired behind the scenes.
For the magazine’s cover story in November, he told GQ, “You’re dealing with two such amazing talents there.”
“Look, if I feel like we got anywhere close — and you only ever get somewhere close to achieving; our imagination is too incredible to ever entirely achieve it — but if you get anywhere close to it, and when you’re working with people of the crazy creative talent of Amy or of David, there are gonna be upsets. They are, however, f-king wonderful.
He added, “Also, you got to remember, it was the nature of the characters as well. Right? They weren’t the kind of people to back down from anything, were they?