{"id":470085,"date":"2026-03-11T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:13:08","slug":"christian-bales-role-as-frankensteins-monster-in-the-bride-inspired-by-manic-street-preachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470085\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bale&#8217;s role as Frankenstein&#8217;s monster in The Bride! inspired by Manic Street Preachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Best known for his roles in American Psycho and Batman, fans of Christian Bale might be surprised to see him wearing his dancing shoes in his latest film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the NME, the actor said he &#8220;loves to dance but isn&#8217;t much of a dancer&#8221;, and drew inspiration from bands like Manic Street Preachers for his role as Frankenstein&#8217;s monster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bale, who was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, stars as the iconic character in gothic romance film The Bride!, with Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley playing the titular character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director Maggie Gyllenhaal asked him to send her &#8220;tunes, tunes, tunes all the time&#8221; of music and artists that inspired his performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best known for his roles in American Psycho and Batman, fans of Christian Bale might be surprised to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}