Christian Bale says he only has a career as Leonardo DiCaprio passed up so many film roles

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Christian Bale says he only has a career because Leonardo DiCaprio has passed up so many film roles. The 48-year-old actor added “any role that anybody gets” is only because Leo, 47, doesn’t want them as he always gets first choice of Hollywood movie parts.

Christian told the new issue of GQ magazine: “I would suspect that almost everybody of similar age to him in Hollywood owes their careers to him passing on whatever project it is. “It doesn’t matter what anyone tells you.

It doesn’t matter how friendly you are with the directors. “All those people that I’ve worked with multiple times – they all offered every one of those roles to him first. “I had one of those people actually tell me that.

So, thank you, Leo, because literally, he gets to choose everything he does. And good for him, he’s phenomenal. ” Leo was first cast as Patrick Bateman in the 2000 film ‘American Psycho’ ahead of Christian – who is also said to have lost five other roles to the ‘Titanic’ actor throughout the 1990s, including parts in ‘This Boy’s Life’ alongside Robert De Niro and ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ with Johnny Depp.