It's not necessarily that Christian Bale looks or feels old, because he doesn't. He still looks young, especially when his face is clean shaven. Because he doesn't appear in a dozen movies every year, he feels fresher, and almost bordering on new, even though he has been in a lot of major films through the years. No, Bale makes a list like this because his level of "cool" almost transcends all time and space. When you look at him, you see Batman. When you look at him, you see Patrick Bateman. You don't see age when you look at him. It's just not something you think about. That says a lot about the man and the types of roles he attaches himself to. Again, he's not someone who appears in any and every movie that sends him a script, and it shows. Now that the Batman role has been passed on to Ben Affleck, it will be interesting to see the types of roles he takes, and just how often we see him on the big screen. Maybe he'll actually start looking his age at some point soon.
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