Christian Bale got paid LESS than the makeup artists working on American Psycho

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He is still remembered for his role of Patrick Bateman, the murderous investment banker and lead character in the 2003 film American Psycho.

But Christian Bale has now revealed he got paid even less than the makeup artists working on the film.In an interview with GQ, Bale, 48, recalled getting laughed at by makeup artists over the pay gap and claimed he was being paid the legally minimum amount.  'They had paid me the absolute minimum they were legally allowed': Christian Bale has revealed he was paid less than the makeup artists working on his 2003 film American Psycho 'They had paid me the absolute minimum they were legally allowed to pay me,' he told the magazine. 'And I had a house that I was sharing with my dad and my sister and that was getting repossessed.'So the first thing was: "Holy crap.

I’ve got to get a bit of money," because I’ve got American Psycho done, but I remember one time sitting in the make-up trailer and the make-up artists were laughing at me because I was getting paid less than any of them. 'And so that was my motivation after that.