In 2021, Schwarzenegger dressed as Patrick Bateman for a Vanity Fair photo shoot celebrating notable films from the early 2000s. Christian Bale in American Psycho. Courtesy Everett Collection ...

Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty; Eric Robert/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Patrick Schwarzenegger backstage at 'The Tonight Show' in 2025; Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in 2000's 'American Psycho' ...

Christian Bale became the image-obsessed Patrick Bateman 25 years ago for “American Psycho.” - Kerry Hayes/Lions Gate/Kobal/Shutterstock Twenty-five years ago, in his pristine but sparse ...

9 Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman. ©Lions Gate/Courtesy Everett Collection In December, Variety reported that Butler was officially cast in the lead role in the new “American Psycho” film.

Patrick Bateman is no role model. “American Psycho” director Mary Harron told the Letterboxd Journal in a new interview for the film’s 25th anniversary that she disagrees with the fans who ...

The Canonization of Patrick Bateman Twenty-five years ago, Christian Bale’s American Psycho character was satire. Today, he’s grind-set goals.

Move over, Austin Butler, there is a new young star vying to play Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino ’s highly anticipated “ American Psycho.” An X user (formerly Twitter) posted on April 30 ...

And she has spent the past 25 years trying to figure out how Bateman, and Bale’s depiction of him, became a role model to the very same “Wall Street bros” he was satirizing.