Christian Bale

Before he played the Batman in Sir Christopher Nolan's ‘Dark Knight’ trilogy, Christian Bale was offered to play James Bond in 1999, though the actor was not interested.

He explained: “James Bond was every despicable stereotype about England and British actors.”

Bale also compared 007 to his psychopathic killer Patrick Bateman from ‘American Psycho’, and said: ‘I already played a serial killer.”