When Christian Bale was 13 he travelled to China to make his first film, Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987). The adaptation of JG Ballard’s book about life in Japan-occupied China during the second world war was shot in Shanghai. It’s an experience the 37-year-old Bale now finds difficult to relate to. “It was so long ago,” he says, sitting back in his seat in a Beverly Hills hotel. “I feel like it was a different person who made that movie.”
克里斯蒂安•貝兒(Christian Bale)13歲時來到中國,出演自己演職生涯的首部影片,它就是由斯皮爾伯格(Steven Spielberg)執導的《太陽帝國》(Empire of the Sun,1987年)。這部由巴拉德(JG Ballard)作品改編的電影是在上海拍攝,講述的是二戰時日本佔領下中國生活的往事。37歲的貝兒如今覺得很難與那段時光聯繫起來。「這都是發生在很久以前的事了,」他說,悠閒地坐在比佛利山(Beverly Hills)某旅館的座椅上。「我彷彿覺得是另一個人出演這部電影。」