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Chloë Sevigny, Josh Lucas Reflect on Being Intimidated by Christian Bale’s Method Acting Process in ‘American Psycho’

"I remember the first scene I did with him, I watched him and he seemed so false—and I now realize that it was this just f***ing brilliant choice that he was making," Lucas said.

“I don’t know if you felt this way, but I actually truly remember thinking that Christian Bale was terrible,” Lucas said in a conversation with Sevigny for Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, Sevigny explained that though she tried to “respect his process” at the time, she still found it “challenging because I’m very gregarious and silly and goofy, unbeknownst to the general public. Lucas added that while he normally finds Method actors “really terrible to work with,” the “ones like Christian, [who’s] not paying attention to fucking anything else but what he’s doing,” he has “nothing but admiration for.”

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