Making 'The Fighter;' Christian Bale's Esquire Interview
The Business · KCRW
December 13, 201030m 0s
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Show Notes
<p><em>The Fighter</em> is a natural awards-bait movie but producer <strong>David Hoberman</strong> says that in today's Hollywood, studios didn't want to make it. It started as a $70 million film produced by Paramount and ended up as an $18 million film made with outside money from Relativity Media. Along the way Matt Damon and Brad Pitt showed interest, as did director Darren Aronofsky, but all dropped out leaving the producers to scramble. Also, Christian Bale, whose performance in <em>The Fighter</em> is generating Oscar buzz, goes a few rounds with the writer of an Esquire magazine Q&A. We talk with <strong>John H. Richardson</strong> about his unconventional and utterly entertaining encounter with this reluctant celebrity. </p>