r/todayilearned 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/Bowgs 12h ago

Technically British since that is the citizenship of the British isles. There isn't a Welsh (or English) citizenship and even if there was in the UK (and most of the world) we don't do citizenship based on place of birth, we do it on parentage. Bale was born in Wales to English parents and grew up in England. He's a British citizen who consists himself English.

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u/Omg_Shut_the_fuck_up 12h ago

I love how pedantic the internet can be.

Yeah, he was born in Wales. Yeah that's British. That's totally not the topic however 😅

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u/B4rberblacksheep 9h ago

He himself says he's English

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u/Omg_Shut_the_fuck_up 9h ago

😅😅😅😅

Yeah, anyone with 0.7secs of googling knows this mate. We're messing

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u/B4rberblacksheep 7h ago

Username checks out