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THE ACTOR WHO plays Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, the movie that was showing in an Aurora theatre before a man barged in and shot dead 12 people and injured a further 58, has paid tribute to those affected by the tragedy.
Christian Bale and his wife Sibi Blazic visited the makeshift memorial in Aurora yesterday, leaving a bouquet of flowers and pausing for a moment of reflection.
In a move that was said not to be coordinated by the Warner Brothers studio, Bale also went to the local hospital for a low-key visit. The Denver Post reported that the actor met with seven patients injured in the shooting, including Carey Rottman whose photograph has been circulated on social media since.
Bale also greeted a number of doctors and paid tribute to emergency response staff. Hospital interim president Bill Voloch said the 10-minute visits with patients were “really appreciated”.
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Sound of him….he didn’t have to
Why do some people think that celebrities have no humanity and everything is a publicity stunt? well done to Christian bale
Fair play to him. R.I.P to all the people who died.
Nice….
Fair play to him, I’m sure his visit was a
nice boost for the victims.
I know he probably didn’t want the cameras there he just wanted to be another person paying his respect! Unavoidable being who he is though. He deserves a lot of respect for this though I’m sure it was much much appreciated by the family’s and survivors.
Bale is decent and down to earth guy. Fair play to him
Fair play to Christian Bale. It was very proper of him to attend and be gracious and also silently pay his respects. You just know he isn’t one of these media mad celebrities who has to have their pic in the paper every week. We never hear of any hedonistic behaviour, or him showing up at every single event to get his name and face in the public view. By all regards and in reality he is just a low key guy, with no pretentiousness or huge ego. He didn’t have to do any of that, and he did his best not to disturb the solemnity of the monument or get up on a soap box and spout some grade A pretentious shite that any and every other celebrity would eagerly take the chance to do. He recognized it wasn’t about him, it was about a community who were all still grieving and reeling from the events of last week. He’s a genuine guy and that was a touch of real humanity there that you don’t see very often from the A-list celebs.
Publicity!!!!
@derry yes oscar winning title star of one of the most popular/biggest grossing trilogies of all time needs the publicity badly
Begrudger!!!!!!!!
Not him Cian, the movie does.
Yea. The movie is struggling sooo badly.
To all the thumb down people thumbs down to you also. Just read the journal article again guys re; “kept low key” and hey presto; is that not bale in the photograph??? And as for comments like; good on him, and he didn’t have to do so…… And blah blah blah…..
That’s a picture taken by one of the victims he visited and circulated via Twitter/Facebook whatever. Hardly a photoshoot and press release. In fairness, He’s one of the more publicity shy actors and he didn’t have to visit them.
Yes and if he refused a photo people would be complaint about that too! The guy can’t win with some people obviously!
This ‘ll make up for the last time he went to visit that Chinese activist and got knocked on his ass :)
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