Christian Bale he puts his face to it. Always. On set he is an actor who follows the method and gains or loses weight until he is reduced to skin and bones to be credible in the character. In real life he transposes the same consistency: he doesn't write a check and disappear. No, when you have to lend a hand you move heaven and earth. And in fact the 50-year-old of Welsh origins who then moved to London, Batman in Christopher Nolan's trilogy, recently took part in the ceremony for the construction of twelve houses in California with his wife Sibi Blazic. It is a shelter for theTogether California association in Palmdale.
The epiphany came to him when he became a father almost twenty years ago (Emmeline): being a parent made him more aware of the foster care system in the United States and he wanted to contribute.
Shovel in hand and giant smiles, the actor was visibly excited also because The cost of this project, which includes both independent homes and a gigantic community center, is around $22 million.
Inspired by his father David, as reported by the Guardian, Christian Bale co-founded the association to do something concrete: «I grew up – said the actor – with the idea of activism and altruism, in fact my father also took me to proposals against Maggie Thatcher. It happened that we hosted people who no longer had a home.”
He experienced firsthand what it meant: as a boy he moved 15 homes in as many years.
As a father he wanted to continue the education of generosity and hospitality received in the family and so he started toying with the idea of rolling up his sleeves and finding the funds for a neighborhood where foster kids can live, a place where he himself could have stayed as a child.
After the 2018 Oscar for TheFighter you don't see him around just because he has reduced his projects – also due to the pandemic and then the actors' strike – but because he has dedicated himself to social work.
His 53-year-old wife, a stuntman and pilot, fully shares her husband's philanthropic aspirations and together they have managed to put the first plug on an ambitious and laudable project.
He told the Associated Press: «I didn't think it would take us this long. I was naive about the idea of being able to buy a piece of land, build houses and bring children there, especially brothers separated from sisters. You know All together passionately? I imagined something like that.” Bureaucracy, on the other hand, moves at a very slow pace even if you have the “Dark Knight” himself in front of you.
Source: Vanity Fair
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