Christian Bale is charting a brand new profession path: producer.

After receiving his first such credit score within the fall, on David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, he snagged one other one on his new movie, The Pale Blue Eye. However Bale shouldn’t be one to sneak the credit score into his contracts as some self-importance reward.

“Like all people, I’m shocked typically on the quantity of producers you see within the credit,” Bale defined to THR on the latest premiere of the Netflix movie that he produced for filmmaker and frequent collaborator Scott Cooper.

“I did it on Amsterdam and with this as a result of I used to be there proper from the inception. I helped to place the movies collectively, and largely as a inventive producer, a right-hand man, kind of a consigliere,” Bale continued. “I might be there to whisper of their ear, reminding them of how we put it collectively, what the intent was, and many others. I wouldn’t wish to do it if it’s not applicable and I’m not placing within the work.”

Cooper mentioned that although it’s the primary time the duo have produced collectively — and their third collaboration as actor and director, after Out of the Furnace and Hostiles — it was a simple extension of their shut partnership.

“Christian reads all of my scripts whether or not he’s in them or not; he sees cuts of all of my films whether or not he’s in them or not; so he acts as a producer whether or not he’s concerned with the film or not,” Cooper defined. “It’s been actually a terrific expertise to have him additionally produce this movie. Any time you may make movies together with your shut mates simply makes it all of the richer,” including that the 2 have “an enormous shorthand.”

Pale Blue Eye follows a veteran detective Augustus Landor (Bale) in 1830s New York investigating a sequence of grisly murders at america Army Academy with the assistance of Edgar Allan Poe, a younger navy cadet on the time. The movie hit theaters on Dec. 23 and begins streaming Friday on Netflix.

This story first appeared within the Jan. 5 difficulty of The truestarz journal. Click on right here to subscribe.