We are here with Mr. Christian Bale
who plays Gorr the God Butcher.
[CHEERING]
They recognize him.
So how does it feel to join the MCU?
It's been a lot of bloody fun.
Yeah, some good-- good people.
I'm in very good company.
I gotta ask.
A character with the name like Gorr the God Butcher,
I feel like I hear that I know exactly what
Gorr the God Butcher is about.
How do you bring sort of--
how do you bring some more depth and nuance to that?
Is that something that you talked
to with Taika about because he's a guy that butchers gods.
Yeah, his name is self-explanatory.
And, you know, he is a butcher, but Taika,
he's a surprising gentleman.
He's crazy talented, and he manages
to have great irony and comedy.
But it's also very moving this film,
and that's where the whole kind of nuances
that you're talking about come into play in this film.
See, he was just doing that thing
that we have to do where we just talked around something,
but I get what you're saying.
I heard from people on the set--
I mean, Tessa and Chris, they were all-- they said we really
enjoyed working with Christian, but we
were almost kind of terrified to talk to him
when he was done up as Gorr.
He was almost too frightening to speak to when he was on set.
It was a little creepy.
I like obviously--
I looked at Nosferatu as an influence,
and also I love Aphex Twin videos,
"Come to Daddy," that, right.
Now you can't do that full on and still have it be a family
friendly film.
People would be running for the exits.
But believe me we did shoot that, and then, you
know, I gave Taika lots of choices there,
but I don't blame him.
He was a creepy fellow to be around.
And then on top of that, I had these fangs,
so I couldn't really talk to anybody because every time
I try and talk [GARBLING].
So I just gave up.
That's another thing is you went and-- you underwent
an incomplete makeup transformation, and that
happened every single day.
What was it like having to sit in the chair for all of that?
Did it get easier?
You go to a zen place.
I've done it a few times in my career.
I kind of didn't realize I was going to do it
on this one actually, but the special effects makeup artists,
Adam Johansen and Colin and Emily,
they are as responsible as I am for creating this character.
And I had a great time.
They were wonderful characters, and it
was a nice little transition into the weirdness
of Gorr each and every morning.
That transition was not only makeup
and hair and costume but movement and speech as well.
What did you-- can you talk us through a little bit
of that process?
Yeah, you know, you don't really
know what you're going to do until you're looking
in the mirror especially with something
with that much prosthetics.
And, you know, we had to plan the whole dance
that Taika and I had planned.
We didn't get to shoot it again.
That will be for another film but a whole Gorr dance
and so with a lot of his movements and styles
and to teach that to my wonderful stunt doubles
as well who adopted this movement very well.
I love that.
That is absolutely-- - We were robbed, everyone.
We were robbed.
Much of it was because I was having to deal with these very
long acrylic nails, which hats off to anyone who
has to deal with acrylic nails.
I couldn't do anything all day with them.
But I love--
I love how much you find the enjoyment in this.
I mean, you know, you obviously have to,
but it comes through so much in the performance
and in the character of Gorr.
I was just overjoyed every time you were on screen.
It was so much fun to watch Gorr doing his thing.
You're obviously a very sick man.
Yes.
To be overjoyed to watch a God butcher doing his butchering.
You know, that's between me and my counselor,
but, yeah, you're not too far off.
But that's the thing, though, is that every--
I was saying this earlier-- that every enemy in the MCU,
there's a grain of truth in what they say,
and they have a lot of their supporters.
How-- do you feel like there was something
with Gorr that would make everybody
go he's kind of right?
Well, I mean, let's make no mistake, he is a butcher,
he is a monster, but, yeah, there
might be something that you see where you go
I'm a little conflicted here.
You might just find a little bit of understanding in him.
We look forward to getting to know and understand him more.
Thank you so much for talking with us, Mr. Bell.
Thank you.
Christian Bale, everybody.