Actor Christian Bale was blocked and attacked by guards when he tried to visit Chen Guangcheng, a blind civil rights activist who has been under house arrest for more than a year, in the city of Linyi, China on Thursday (December 15)- watch video below.
Christian Bale’s Inhumane F-Bomb Bonanza
The 37 year-old was in the country to promote his upcoming Chinese movie “The Flowers of War” when he decided to take an eight hour drive with a CNN crew to visit one of his personal heroes.
Chen was originally arrested for “damaging property and organizing a mob to disturb traffic” and sentenced to four years back in 2006. The blind lawyer and his wife continue under house arrest and Chinese guards don’t allow any visitors. In 2010, a video of authorities beating him in his own house caused outrage.
“I’m not being brave doing this. The local people who are standing up to the authorities and insisting on going to visit Chen and his family and getting beaten up for it and my understanding is getting detained for it, I want to support what they’re doing,” Bale told the CNN crew.
Bale is now being accused of doing this to create Oscar buzz for his movie in the Best Foreign Language Film category, but I actually believe the actor is genuinely interested in helping those people. Bale was seriously putting his life on the line by marching up to those thugs and demanding to see Chen.
“He’s been following the story and he was just really moved by the story and what this man’s trying to do and it’s impossible [to see him],” Bale’s representative told The Huffington Post, “and he thought, he was there for work, and he would try and see if he could help. [It was] just really being moved on a personal level and that is what he chose to do.”
“The Flowers of War,” a movie about the infamous mass murder and rape spree perpetrated by Japanese soldiers known as the Rape of Nanking back in 1937, is set for a limited release in US theaters later this month.
Christian Bale Attacked In China CNN Video go on reading »
