Christian Bale Says He Had No Idea What the ‘MCU’ Was After Joining ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’
thewrap.comGwyneth Paltrow didn’t know she was in ‘Spider-Man‘” vibes with his latest interview in which he explained that upon joining “Thor: Love and Thunder” and “entering” the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or the “MCU” — it turns out he had no idea what that was.
Because while Marvel fans may have been doing a victory lap that Batman was now playing the villain Gorr the God Butcher in Marvel’s fourth “Thor” film as directed by Taika Waititi, it turns out Bale hadn’t given much thought to whether or not he was doing another comic book movie. “I’d read that, and people would go, ‘Oh, look at this!
He’s entered the MCU!’ And I’d go, ‘I’ve done what? I haven’t entered s—, thank you very much.’ I’m like, ‘The MCU?’ I had to ask what that was,” Bale said in an interview Tuesday with Total Film.
Bale elsewhere in the interview says he was drawn to playing the character based on Waititi’s description of the comic book character and that he modeled much of the character’s look off a music video by the band Aphex Twin.
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