Christian Bale Was Told to Sing Quieter During ‘Amsterdam’ Duet With Taylor Swift: ‘Like We Had Been Drowning Out an Angel’s Voice’
usmagazine.comA humbling moment. Christian Bale thought he and costar John David Washington were doing a great job singing while filming Amsterdam – until director David O.
Russell had Taylor Swift step in to set them straight. “Our pitch was all over the place … and then all of a sudden, David just goes, ‘How about Christian and J.D.
just shut up for this one and let Taylor do it?’” Bale, 48, said during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that was published on Friday, September 30. “And it was like we had been drowning out an angel’s voice all day long with our cacophony and our rough, terrible voices.” The Batman Begins star – who has previously showed off his singing pipes in various films including Empire of the Sun and Newsies — joked that it was “really something” to have “someone with as beautiful a voice as [Swift’s] singing next to you, before noting that he and the Tenet star, 38, took it all in jest. “It was a very funny scene, actually, because J.D.
and myself had been practicing that song a little bit,” he quipped. “David had us sing it all day long, but then there were moments where I would forget the lyrics.
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