Tom Cruise was Christian Bale’s Inspiration for Patrick Bateman From Slashfilm

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http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/21/...trick-bateman/

Su-su-Suri. In a new interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron dryly shares the revelation that Christian Bale’s inspiration for his pretty-damn-legendary performance in her American Psycho was none other than Tom Cruise. What’s more, there is previous online precedent to connect Cruise’s go-getter, ’80s attitude and famous physical regimen with Patrick Bateman’s yuppie, psychopathic shell. After the jump, we have Harron’s very candid remark, as well as the actor who so embodies this strange, pop culture duality…

Some may recall that in author Bret Easton Ellis’s novel of the same name from 1991, Bateman resides in the same high-status apartment building as Cruise and actually runs into him on an elevator. This detail is not mentioned in Harron’s chat, however…

Q: How did you and Christian Bale develop his character in American Psycho?

A: Mary Harron: It was definitely a process. [Bale and I] talked a lot, but he was in L.A. and I was in New York. We didn’t actually meet in person a lot, just talked on the phone. We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.

Also there's a link to Miles Fisher spoof of his uncanny impersonation of Tom Cruise.
I always tought there was something with Tom Cruise, I watched the special features for Eye Wide Shut with Tom Cruise's interview.
It was like he was acting sincere/heartfelt when talking about Stanley's death and such, almost like he was overacting.
Maybe he is just like that in person, who knows?
I hope I didn't start a thread that's doomed for closing.