Christian Bale: U.S. Genocide, ‘Bigotry’ in My New Western Is ‘Relevant’ to Today

[See NewsBusters for more.] The British-born Christian Bale appeared on CBS This Morning, Monday, to sneer that the American “genocide” and “bigotry” featured in his new western film is “relevant” to what’s going on today in the country. Regarding his movie Hostiles, Bale lamented that the film, set in 1892, has “become surprisingly, sadly relevant, more so since we stopped filming, you know, in terms of... some of Americans’s ease and comfort now expressing hatred to those who are different from them.” Asked by co-host Gayle King to explain the “relevance,” Bale insisted, “Well, in terms of that, in terms of, in every way not respecting the other, not respecting people who are different from yourself.”