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Christian Bale’s kids don’t go overboard about their dad being in the movie biz.
PEOPLE caught up with Oscar winner, 48, on Wednesday at theThePale Blue Eyepremiere in Los Angeles where he opened open about whether his children ever get to enjoy his films.
“Not often, no,” Bale said. “They get to enjoy some of them. They really encouraged me to go make [Thor: Love and Thunder].They really wanted that, and I enjoyed that and I appreciate that they did ask me to go do that.”
“What I like thinking about is that I’m hoping in the years to come they will come to appreciate these films even if they don’t right now,” he added of his typically-intense and dramatic roles. “But I’m not sure that any dad’s kids really ever enjoy watching their dad in a film, because I’m their dad.”
Bale and his wife,Sibi Blazic, 52, share daughter Emmeline, 17, and son Joseph, 7.
The couple, who have been married since 2000, posed for pictures on the carpet at the DGA Theater in Hollywood for their date night to promote Bale’s film.
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Despite their lengthy relationship, Bale and Blazic have managed to keep most of their private life away from the public eye, at least until now.
“We always sit down and make choices together, but this is one that I thought couldn’t happen,” the Oscar-winner shared withEntertainment Tonightin June regarding his kids forcing him to doThor, Love and Thunder. “They corrected me on that and they said, ‘No, dad, you’re making this one.” And I said I might and they said, ‘Yes, absolutely.’ So I said OK."
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As for how Bale enjoyed working with director Scott Cooper again for the third time, he said:
“It’s a nice thing when you find a partnership with a director and there’s a flow and there’s a language that you understand,” he shared to PEOPLE on Wednesday. The duo also paired up for 2013’sOut of The Furnaceand 2017’sHostiles.
“And I understand his vision, I understand his style, I understand how to adapt to what he’s looking for,” Bale continued. “And he seems to enjoy what I’m presenting for him.”
The Pale Blue Eyeis in select theaters Dec. 23 and on Netflix Jan. 6.
source: people.com
