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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio lined up to play the iconic role of Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in the 2000 film American Psycho, but apparently pioneering feminist Gloria Steinheim told her to think about her young fans.
Steinheim had already criticized Bret Easton Ellis’s violent satire when the American Psycho The book was initially published.
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Leonardio DiCaprio and Christian Bale were both for the role of Patrick Bateman.
Cast member and screenwriter Guinevere Turner says, in a Vice 20th anniversary of the film’s oral history, which Steinheim warned DiCaprio that young women who had just seen his acting as Jack in 1998 Titanic it would not be well served if a follow-up film depicted brutal violence against women.
Director and co-writer Mary Harron was replaced at one point by Wall Street director Oliver Stone, allegedly for his desire to have Bale star.
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Harron told him Vice They brought her back after a couple of weeks.
DiCaprio retired to star in Danny Boyle’s The beach.
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Leonardo DiCaprio in a sample of ‘The Beach’ in 2000.
In a strange twist, Turner revealed that “Gloria Steinem ended up marrying Christian Bale’s father, which is really interesting. I wonder what Thanksgiving was like!”
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Christian Bale on a public phone in a scene from the movie ‘American Psycho’.
