The Bride star Christian Bale has opened up on his character's unusual connection to Jake Gyllenhaal's "Fred Astaire"-esque Ronnie Reed – and exploring the more "comedic" side of Frankenstein's monster.
"When he was younger, he did the worst things possible – murdering children – but he was a man child himself," the former Batman actor tells GamesRadar+, making clear how much he empathised with Mary Shelley's iconic creation. "He didn't know any better. He had the worst parent in the world, and he had a strength that he just didn't know how to control, so he disappears off, and he can't bloody die. You know, the guy would love to die, and he's smelly and he's rotting and he just stinks to high heaven, but he can't die."
