{"id":138507,"date":"2022-10-09T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T10:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/christian-bale-and-robert-de-niro-on-david-o-russell\/"},"modified":"2022-10-09T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T10:37:13","slug":"christian-bale-and-robert-de-niro-are-on-david-o-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/christian-bale-and-robert-de-niro-are-on-david-o-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bale and Robert De Niro are on David O. Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cAmsterdam,\u201dThe new David O. Russell historical mystery is filled with enough mega-watt stars that it could power a midsized American town.<\/p>\n

The cast includes (but is not limited to) Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Zoe Salda\u00f1a, Timothy Olyphant and Matthias Schoenaerts. If there\u2019s a lead in the movie, it\u2019s Christian Bale, who developed the project with Russell and who stars as an injured veteran of World War I who is now looking to help his fellow wounded soldiers start their new lives in New York. His character is hunched over and has extensive prosthetics. He also has one eye. It\u2019s enough to remind you of an earlier Robert De Niro role, where he would transform himself physically to fit the needs of the character. Oh, and De Niro appears in the movie as an ally powerful enough to expose a growing conspiracy.<\/p>\n

spoke to Bale and De Niro about re-teaming with Russell (Bale has made three movies with him, De Niro has made four), Russell\u2019s unorthodox way of shooting and whether or not De Niro was relieved to let the younger actor assume the burdens of the physical transformation.<\/p>\n

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Christian, David and I know that you have been working together on this story for quite some time. Did you ever envision Mr. De Niro playing this role?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christian Bale<\/strong>: That\u2019s David\u2019s choice and I was blessed to be able to work with Bob. David and Bob first started to talk about a different character, I believe. And then through their research and their conversations, and it\u2019s their fourth film together, I\u2019ve only done three with David. I\u2019m a beginner. Bob and David are both veterans. They go back much further than me \u2013<\/p>\n

Robert De Niro<\/strong>: Stop it. He\u2019s the lead. He does a little bit.<\/p>\n

Christian Bale<\/strong>: Then, as I understand it the two chose Dillenbeck to play Bob’s most appropriate role.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve both done many movies with David and he has such an idiosyncratic way of shooting things and making movies. Has that process had evolved over the movies that you\u2019ve done with him and has your relationship with him evolved as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert De Niro<\/strong>: No, well in my case it\u2019s been kind of the same, but things always evolved and changed and so on. David is the core of everything. And the attraction to working with him is because he\u2019s so special and that the movie at the end of the day and hopefully the character will have a special reverberation. He is a great actor. It\u2019s fun and exciting to work with him. But you also know it\u2019s not for naught. It\u2019ll be something that can always be recognized as a special project that people will remember.<\/p>\n

Christian Bale<\/strong>: Yeah, absolutely. From my own experience, it seems so. \u201cThe Fighter\u201dTo \u201cAmerican Hustle\u201d to this, I\u2019ve seen David lean more confidently into how he likes to direct and embrace the cast and crew who love it too. And he gets to know that, who enjoys it, who doesn\u2019t. In my experience, it is clear that being involved with more people is a better way to go. \u201cAmsterdam\u201d than any other film, this is the most David film that I\u2019ve ever come across. He was a complete embracer of it.<\/p>\n

David, as Bob had said, he\u2019ll be behind the camera given outlines. The script is always shot, but we then go off-script. And David also, so often with me when I\u2019d be there, he\u2019d be next to my chair or something and he\u2019d be slapping at my ankles or whatever. Or he\u2019d be under the tablecloth over there and sometimes Chivo [cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki] would turn the camera and because you don\u2019t always know who he\u2019s going to turn the camera on toward. And then he\u2019d have to say, \u201cDavid, I see you, you\u2019re in the background.\u201dDavid would be running around trying to escape from the shot. It\u2019s the way he works and It is a joy. I love it. It’s evident Bob also loves it. Like any great filmmaker. David\u2019s very unique in his point-of-view and rhythm and perspective.<\/p>\n

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Are you a person who has ever been frozen up? I\u2019m assuming that style isn\u2019t for everybody.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christian Bale<\/strong>: Yeah, no. David would occasionally send me as an ambassador to explain. So we\u2019re going to be good. It\u2019s all going to be good. Trust the process and have fun. One time, an actor was just stunned. They didn\u2019t know what the\u2026 They had to adjust. It was very interesting.<\/p>\n

Mr. De Niro, you\u2019re known for these amazing physical transformations. Are you able to look at Christian and wonder? Thank God I don\u2019t have to have one eye and crazy prosthetics anymore and be hunched over the whole movie<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert De Niro<\/strong>: He did a lot. It was amazing. It was wonderful. I did thank God. But he\u2019s great. He is a master at what he does. It\u2019s really something. Yeah. Every time I see it, I’m amazed. Amazing.<\/p>\n

Christian<\/strong>: Watch this man set the bar. What do you know?<\/p>\n

\u201cAmsterdam\u201dThis film is only currently being shown in theaters<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cAmsterdam,\u201dThe new David O. Russell historical mystery is filled with enough mega-watt stars that it could power a midsized American town. The cast includes (but is not limited to) Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Zoe Salda\u00f1a, Timothy Olyphant and Matthias Schoenaerts. If there\u2019s a lead in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":138508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1665311798_Christian-Bale-and-Robert-De-Niro-on-David-O-Russell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138509,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138507\/revisions\/138509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}