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Christian Bale's Batman Begins audition released

Star tried out opposite Amy Adams.

Christian Bale's Batman Begins audition released

A snippet of Christian Bale's original screen-test for Batman Begins has been released.

In the clip, released on Daily Motion, the actor can be seen wearing Val Kilmer's Batsuit and acting opposite future Man of Steel star Amy Adams as he tries out for the iconic role back in 2003. Watch it above.

In part of a featurette filmed for The Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector's Edition, director Christopher Nolan describes what he liked about Bale's audition.

"The testing process on this kind of character, it's not about acting ability or chemistry or any of those things. It's about being able to project this extraordinary iconography from the inside," he said.

"Christian somehow figured this out before the screen-test - that you could not give an ordinary performance, you could not give a normal performance. You had to project massive energy through this costume in order to not question the costume.

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"It's about feeling and a voice, and I think Christian's voice was a big part of the impression he made in the test.

"He had decided that Batman needed to have a different voice to Bruce Wayne - that he needed to put on a voice. That supported the visual appearance of the character and explained why people don't recognise him from his voice. It was pretty logically thought out."

Bale went on to star as Bruce Wayne in all three films of Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, concluding with The Dark Knight Rises in 2012.




The Dark Knight Trilogy: Ultimate Collector's Edition is released in the UK on October 7th.