Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy star Christian Bale is now set for a massive franchise transition by joining the MCU in a villainous role for Chris Hemsworth's Thor: Love and Thunder. Bale will play Gorr The God Butcher, one of Marvel Comics' most menacing villains.
Fans were already raving after Bale's Gorr made an official first appearance in Thor: Love and Thunder's second trailer. Although Bale's live-action version of the villain didn’t accurately look like the source material, fans are still thrilled to see Bale in a spine-chilling white getup.
Aside from fans' exhilaration about the upcoming villain, Bale's co-actors just offered another piece of information that would surely add to the growing anticipation of the fans.
In the Spring 2022 issue of Disney’s D23 Magazine (via The Direct), Thor: Love and Thunder's Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson open up about their experience working with the critically-acclaimed actor, Christian Bale.
“The rest of us would be in our world of improvisation, comedy, and fun - then he’d walk on set, and we’d all look at each other and say ‘Oh, my God! This is really intense," Hemsworth said. "This is really scary.'”
Thompson added, “(Bale) toed this really great line, because he needs to be terrifying, but he also needs to work in the context of our colorful, snappy, irreverent world.
Christian Bale is famously-known for incorporating a method-acting process into any film he is working on, particularly his extreme dedication to altering his emotional and physical well-being for a role. Thankfully, looks like Bale laid back a little on his strategy with Gorr, making the whole filming process fun for his Marvel co-stars.
Considering the actor's thriving career, Bale would undoubtedly defy expectations from both critics and fans as he joins the world of the Marvel Universe. While we still don't have any idea yet about how Bale's MCU performance would look on the big screens, Hemsworth and Thompson's recent comment about Bale solidifies that fans should look forward to Gorr's monumental arrival.
Thor: Love and Thunder will premiere in theaters on July 8.
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