The premiere of the film “American Psycho” took place at the Sundance festival in the first month of 2000. The picture caused unprecedented excitement, received polar assessments. Adherents of the tape positioned it as a new classic of the comic horror, skeptics called the film boring due to the lack of goodies. However, time has judged everyone - now the picture is included in the golden fund of world cinema, its IMDb rating is 7.60. Although at some point the production of the American Psycho project, whose actors and roles were remembered by the public, was under serious threat.
The twists and turns of casting
In "American Psycho" actors were selected in the process of a long and scandalous casting. In the early stages, rumors associated with the film directed by Mary Harron several celebrities at once. The studio was negotiating with D. L. Miller, D. Depp and E. Norton. But they ended, almost without beginning. However, two other performers almost tried on the image of the main character Bateman. Advance consent to participate in the movie was given by Billy Crudup, but after he read the script in full, the actor radically changed his position and did not sign the contract. Unlike him, Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t bother the final at all, but as a result he chose Danny Boyle's “Beach”, which is why the producers of American Psycho won, because the fee of the Titanic star “ate” almost the entire budget of the tape. Christian Bale had to be very nervous, for his participation in the film, there was a serious struggle between director Mary Harron and studio bosses who preferred to see a star of the first magnitude as a leading actor.
Not batman yet
The public knows British artist Christian Bale as the most impressive Batman in Hollywood movie history. But before becoming a superhero, getting the coveted Oscar and embodying the image of John Connor in the action film directed by McG "Terminator: May the Savior Come," the actor realized his potential in another genre. In the satirical picture of Mary Herron, he masterly played a maniac from high society, a financier, cracking down on his victims between transactions and social events. The director really counted on Bale, even customized the script for him and turned out to be exclusively right.
Spiritual and bodily metamorphoses
Everyone is enthusiastic about the bodily transformations of Christian, who lost 30 kg for the Machinist, and then gained 45 kg for the Dark Knight. But worthy of his spiritual transformation, which the performer demonstrated in the "American Psycho." The actors, who became his colleagues in the filming process, were genuinely surprised at his dramatic talent. An explosive mixture of arrogance, anger, narcissism, violent cruelty is hidden under the guise of external success, friendliness and prosperity - movies rarely show such monsters, no more than two or three per generation. Why the academy ignored such an outstanding character is impossible to understand. Although the other leading actors of American Psycho were noted, if not with a statuette, then with an Oscar nomination.
Model Acting Ensemble
Other actors of the film "American Psycho" made a truly brilliant casting, given the fact that in the literary source the characteristics of the characters are superficial, the characters are almost faceless.
At that time, the most titled star in the film was Willem Dafoe, who received an Oscar nomination for Oliver Stone's Platoon. In “Psychopath”, he played detective Donald Kimball, the actor had to play almost every scene in three keys, the director wanted to combine doubles in order to confuse the viewer completely.
The future Romkom star and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon embodied on the screen the image of the bride of the protagonist Evelyn Williams, idly vegetating.
A friend Evelyn and part-time lover of her fiancé Courtney was played by S. Matis from Mario's Super Brothers.
Chloe Sevigny, who won an Oscar for Guys Don't Cry, played the secretary of a monster named Gene, the only normal girl from Bateman's entourage.
Received an Oscar for the Dallas Buyers Club, the current Joker Jared Leto turned into Paul Allen, a colleague, and after one of the victims of the maniac.
Actors D. Lucas (Stylish Little), D. Theroux (Mulholland Drive), M. Ross (future director of Captain Fantastic) and B. Sage (Boiler Room) played secondary roles in American Psycho.