Christian Bale’s acting has taken him to all kinds of dark corners over the years, and today Vanity Fair has your first look at his latest excursion: writer-director Scott Cooper’s new historical thriller, The Pale Blue Eye, based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard. Bale plays a retired constable in 1830 who joins forces with a young Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) to solve a series of grisly slayings at West Point, where Poe is a cadet. (The movie hits theaters on December 23 and Netflix on January 6.) The Pale Blue Eye is not based on true events, though Poe did attend the military academy before being dismissed in March of 1831. Instead, it uses fiction to explore a truth familiar to anyone who has turned the famed author’s pages: Real horrors seldom have easy explanations. “Every character in the story has secrets,” says Bale. “And while Poe seems to be the one who is clearly putting on a performance, he is actually the most sincere. Everyone else is more quietly putting on a performance, but no one is who they are pretending to be.”
Elsewhere in HWD today, Andy Serkis tells VF about his new character in the Star Wars show Andor; Sheila McCarthyvisits our Little Gold Men podcast to discuss her character in the gripping new drama Women Talking; we dive into the cliff-hanger ending of season one of Hulu’s soapy series Tell Me Lies; and we share thoughts and theories about season two of House of the Dragon.
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