English actor Christian Bale speaks to journalists during an interview on the red carpet as he arrives for the Zhang Yimou-directed new movie 'The Flowers of War' in Beijing, China. Photo / AP
Academy Award winner Christian Bale, in the midst of promoting a film he made in China that some critics have called propaganda, has been stopped trying to visit a blind activist living under house arrest with a CNN camera crew in tow.
CNN posted footage of a scuffle between Bale and the activist's guards on its website today.
The run-in and publicity is likely to cause discomfort in China's government-backed film industry, which hopes Bale's movie The Flowers of War might be a creative success at home and abroad. It also raises questions about whether it was prudent to bring the star to see an activist guarded by thugs who have turned away dozens of reporters and fellow activists trying to see him in the past.
Bale won an Academy Award for his role in The Fighter and has starred as Batman in The Dark Knight and Batman Begins, and 2012's The Dark Knight Rises.
- AP
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