Christian Bale, on his role as mediator between Amy Adams and an "abusive" director: "I did what I felt was appropriate"

In 2016, actress Amy Adams, in an interview published in the British edition of

described the working method of director and screenwriter David O. Russell, who directed her in

as "maniacal".

The protagonist of

of Her remembered three years after finishing filming that she shared with Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale, how the filmmaker "yelled" at her and made her cry almost daily.

“He was tough on me, that's for sure.

Much.

On set she was totally shattered and most days she came home like this”, she declared then her.

Now it is her film partner who has done the exercise of remembering and admitting his role as mediator between her and Russell.

“I did what I felt was appropriate, Irv-style,” she explains in the interview that appears on the November cover of

magazine , referencing her character in

In the film Bale

brings to life con man Irving Rosenfield and his role in the FBI's Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Interview in 2016 |

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“I tend to try to be a mediator.

It's in my nature to try to say, 'Hey, come on, let's sit down and figure that out.

There has to be a way to make all of this work”, he explains in the same interview, without giving much more detail than what he specifically did to mediate.

Although the actor has admitted what Adams has already confirmed, Bale has also wanted to look back without rancor and yes with many praises, both for Adams and Russell.

"I was dealing with two such incredible talents there," he

.

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Bale's statements confirm the information that was leaked in the emails that came to light in 2014 after the cyberattack suffered by the Sony company.

Emails between journalist Jonathan Alter and his brother-in-law, then-Sony CEO Michael Lynton, read that Russell "abused" Adams so much on the film's set that the

star had to to intervene.

"Her abuse of him and his lunatic behavior are extreme, even by Hollywood standards," Alter wrote to Lynton at the time.

Christian Bale, 48 years old (just like Adams), who has worked on the latest Marvel production,

has acknowledged in this same interview that he did not enjoy his role in the film and describes filming as an experience somewhat boring

“The definition of this is monotony.

You have good people.

You have other actors who have much more experience than me.

Can you differentiate one day from another?

No, absolutely not”, confesses the actor.

In the same publication, in addition, the interpreter who plays Batman in

assures that he lives happily without the pressure of living from filming to filming, after spending the past year in three different projects and not knowing when the next one will be.

"I could go forever without working," he says.