I was experiencing an incredible male possessiveness. I'd been there a month, and I sort of resented when Eric Stoltz arrived. I have a jones for actresses. You establish intimacy so easily. When you meet someone for the first time, someone with the guts to be an actress, and you're auditioning together, you've already broken that ice.
Rehearsals are even better.
For European and American girls, my being a fumbling, dribbling English prat seems to be quite charming. As long as it works, I'm in luck. Bale worked steadily through the '90s, jumping effortlessly from one genre to another. He provided one of the voices for Disney's Pocahontas , then drove Nicole Kidman quite mad in Jane Campion's 1996 drama, The Portrait of a Lady . Taking a rest from pretty boy and rogue duty, Bale played a mentally handicapped man opposite Patricia Arquette and Bob Hoskins in The Secret Agent .