While this isn’t the first time we’ve spotted Christian Bale sporting a Sea Shepherd shirt, it’s great to see that the Dark Knight is still giving some spotlight to the organization. The actor was snapped with his wife Sibi at LAX yesterday en route. No doubt Animal Planet execs are happy for the free promo — the second season of their Whale Wars series documenting Sea Shepherd hit television yesterday as well.

Photo credit: INFphoto.com

The bodybuilding and unbuilding you’ve done for your roles is alarming—the former all the more so for its being accomplished without any animal protein.
Actually, I’m in and out of the vegetarianism now. But yeah, the majority of the building up you’re talking about was done when I was still a vegetarian.

When did you fall off the wagon?
Just after I’d completed American Psycho [for which Bale, as the preening sociopath Patrick Bateman, got furiously ripped].

Dietary reasons? Or something to do with the character?
I was up in Toronto and went to see that movie Life Is Beautiful. By myself. And when I came out, I had a craving for blood unlike anything I had ever experienced since I decided to go vegetarian at the age of 7. It was a compulsion. It was undeniable. I went to several restaurants, one right after the other, and got the biggest, bloodiest steaks I could get my hands on. It was the first time I had tasted flesh in almost twenty years.

Life Is Beautiful.
Yeah.

That makes sense.
Yeah.

Life is Beautiful?! You mean a movie about Nazi, Germany and concentration camps turned Bale into a meat-eater? He’s either f**king with us in a very sick way or well, yea, I don’t know what to think. I mean, who the hell reacts to a movie like that in that way. (Christan Bale, Michael, Christian Bale.)

Yea, he’s got to be f**king with us.

But the Batman star credits his greatest influence on acting to horses. “I love horses. I’ve learned from them,” he recently told The Japan Times. “Once you master a horse — but it also masters you — you gain more confidence in yourself. When you can mount it and move it and move along with it, that is a hard-won and very real accomplishment,” he said.

All mounting aside, Bale has been known to make up stories and fabricate background info to mess with the media. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case — but if not, kudos to him for drawing inspiration from a truly original source.

The Caped Crusader aka Christian Bale was photographed at the Heathrow airport wearing a different  super-hero outfit – a Sea Shepherd T-shirt.  Recently we reported Christian’s stats as a vegetarian and prolific activist, so it’s no surprise to see him wearing the mark of the good pirates of the seas.

Sea Shepherd is an international non-profit working for marine wildlife conservation, and they’re known for using kick-ass direct action to investigate, defend, and shut down evil wrong doers. This, fall the org will be featured in a new documentary series on Animal Planet called Whale Wars.

I can totally picture Christian out on one of their boats defending whales and seals.

via: gossipgirls.com

Apparently, the actor had an early influence from an animal-activist parent and went completely veg after reading the story Charlotte’s Web. He’s also a devoted animal lover, with two dogs [Mojo and Ramone] and three cats [Miriam, Molly, and Lilly], all of which are strays that he found. For your trivia pleasure, here are some additional Bale facts courtesy of IMDB:

>>Christian is active in many organizations, including Ark Trust, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Foundation, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, the Redwings Sanctuary, and the Happy Child Mission, and a school for street kids in Rio De Janeiro.

>>Auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997) and almost got the role but people felt that it wouldn’t be “fair” having two Brits playing two Americans (Rose was American as well, she says in the movie that the Titanic was a slave ship bring her back to America).

>>If he plays an American character, he will use an American accent in all the interviews related to the film. He says he does this so the audience isn’t confused.

With the next Batman movie set to hit theaters this summer, fans are already speculating what’s next for the Dark Knight and if a third movie might be on the horizon. Apparently, Christian Bale is interested in creating a trilogy and would consider signing on for a third flick. “Let’s wait and see,” Bale said. “I would, knowing the ‘Dark Knight’ story, like very much to complete a trilogy. And I think that knowing the story of ‘The Dark Knight,’ it leaves you anticipating something that really can get very, very interesting for a third. Now, the question would be: Is Chris [Nolan] going to be doing it? Because to me I find it tricky to imagine working on it without it being a collaboration with Chris.”

Those are promising words — and with Bale looking ahead — fans are now debating what villain or villains might be featured next. One of the potential baddies could be none other than Poison Ivy — an eco-terrorist obsessed with plants, botany, and environmentalism. From Wikipedia,

“She uses toxins from plants and her own bloodstream for her criminal activities, which are usually aimed at protecting the natural environment. She creates love potions that ensnare Batman, Superman, and other strong-willed individuals.”

Sounds like someone I dated in High School. God, her breath…

But seriously, we’ve seen Ivy before in the critically-acclaimed Batman and Robin played by Uma Thurman. Could an updated, Gore-educated, Whole Foods-shopping, Living With Ed-watching, Prius-driving Ivy be far away? No idea. We’re thinking it will never happen and join the hordes of others that believe Two-Face will take the bad guy position for the next film.

But here’s to being proven wrong. Bring on the plants.

via SyFy Portal