The real-life Batman: Christian Bale opens up on his passion project to build dozen foster homes
Hindustan TimesChristian Bale broke ground Wednesday on a project he’s been pursuing for 16 years – the building of a dozen homes and a community center in Los Angeles County intended to keep siblings in foster care together. Christian Bale turns into a real-life Batman with his passion project of building foster homes But Bale, who was Batman in director Christopher Nolan 's Dark Knight trilogy, wasn't just playing Bruce Wayne and lending his name and money to a charitable cause. “To his credit, through all sorts of challenges, COVID and everything else, he never gave up.” The men eventually found a sympathetic leader in LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, and in Palmdale, a semi-rural city of about 165,000 people, found a city with both a need and a willingness to take part. But I’m quietly hoping that there’ll be many of these.” The 50-year-old Bale, who began acting as a child in films including Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun and the Disney musical Newsies, won an Oscar for best supporting actor for 2010's The Fighter.