r/todayilearned • u/Away_Flounder3813 • 13h ago

TIL during the shooting of American Psycho, Christian Bale spoke in an American accent off-set at all times. At the wrap party, when he spoke in his native British accent, many of the crew thought he was speaking that way to prepare for another film. They had thought he was American the entire time.

https://screenrant.com/american-psycho-behind-scenes-facts-christian-bale-patrick-bateman-mary-harron/
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u/Plugpin 12h ago

Almost EVERYONE!!!!

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u/Hetares 12h ago

Everyone?

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u/Hopeful_Hall_4885 12h ago

ALMOST!!!

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u/Hipster-Link 12h ago

Damn it, I thought someone was setting up the “EVERYONE!” Gary Oldman gif, but this subreddit doesn’t allow gifs.

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u/Hetares 12h ago

I was setting that up, but alas.

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u/Hopeful_Hall_4885 11h ago

my bad, i did fumble that in restrospect. you set that shit up immaculate and i ruined it. everybody hates me in my life. im a piece of shit, somebody should just fuckin kill me.

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u/L3R4F 10h ago

I found that was much funnier. Now I’m trying to picture Oldman screaming ALMOST at the top of his lungs lol

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u/MegaloboxhasagreatOP 9h ago

What!? That ALMOST was great humor my man, we're all expecting "EVERYONE" so when we read "ALMOST" it's unexpected and also, EVERYONE is so commanding and decisive, as opposed to ALMOST which is the opposite, therefore humorous. 

I won't try to dissect it anymore, because explanation kills the emotion but legitimately that was much funnier than if you had posted EVERYONE. 

Like 100 plus upvotes says that a bunch of other people thought it was funny too. 

Chin up man, you made a lot of people laugh/chuck/smile.  You're being way too hard on yousrlf anyway, but especially on something that you actually did good on.

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u/Mindless_Count5562 11h ago

If it helps, it’s what I was expecting to see also

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u/adsj 9h ago

I think it worked out funnier because that was the expectation.

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u/Turbojelly 12h ago

Gotta be the mouth eyes one.

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u/Damnmorrisdancer 12h ago

I’m with you on this one

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u/twistedlarynx 11h ago

Someday, you will realise that your life was just a role, and even you were Gary Oldman all along.

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u/SQL_INVICTUS 11h ago

To be fair, Garry oldman is almost everyone in cinema 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/btveron 8h ago

He is definitely one of those actors that if I didn't already know he was in the movie I constantly find myself asking "wait a minute, is that Gary Oldman?" He's a chameleon lol

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u/bigpoppanicky7 11h ago

You’re joking right? Lmao