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Christian Bale Reveals Just How Amazing (and Embarrassing) It Was to Duet with Taylor Swift in 'Amsterdam' · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When you're a dad,
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  Speaker 1: impressing your teenage kids can be tough, even if you're
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  Speaker 1: an A list actor like Christian Bale, but he did
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  Speaker 1: manage to get the attention of his seventeen year old
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  Speaker 1: daughter Emmeline when he casually mentioned he'd spent the day
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  Speaker 1: singing with Taylor Swift. It was on the set of
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  Speaker 1: David or Russell's new ensemble film Amsterdam that both Taylor
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  Speaker 1: and Christian have rolls in and the scene together doing
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  Speaker 1: what Taylor does best, but not necessarily Christian singing. He
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  Speaker 1: tells Hollywood Reporter, it was funny because my co star John,
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  Speaker 1: David Washington, and I had been practicing the song a bit,
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  Speaker 1: but there were moments where I would forget the lyrics,
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  Speaker 1: and once we were shooting with Taylor, we were going flat.
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  Speaker 1: Our pitch was all over the place, and we thought
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  Speaker 1: the feeling was right, and then David recommended, how about
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  Speaker 1: Christian and John shut up for this take and let
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  Speaker 1: Taylor do it. And it was like we've been drowning
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  Speaker 1: out an angel's voice with our cacophony and terrible voices.
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  Speaker 1: Christian ads getting to sit right beside someone with a
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  Speaker 1: voice as good as Taylor's and watch her sing one
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  Speaker 1: of the most incredible experiences while making Amsterdam in theaters
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow's direct from Hollywood