According to Christian Bale, he typically accepts roles after Leonardo DiCaprio has already been rejected them.
The two Hollywood superstars have long been seen as having an underlying rivalry by the uninitiated.
A representative of the star claimed once that DiCaprio frequently won projects that Bale was up for.
Bale said in a statement to GQ, “Look, to this day, any role that anybody gets, it’s only because he’s passed on it beforehand.
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.
And good for him, he’s phenomenal.” Bale added that he never took DiCaprio’s status as the casting directors’ first choice for their movies personally, “No.
The most popular movie was Titanic, which increased Leonardo’s popularity and ranks among the highest-grossing films of all time.
He also didn’t get parts in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, This Boy’s Life, and other films.
Bale then mentioned about his role as Batman saying, “They had paid me the absolute minimum they were legally allowed to pay me.