When Christian Bale first talked with director Ridley Scott about playing the role of Moses in Scott’s “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” he went home and rented a movie to get him in the right mood.
It wasn’t “The 10 Commandments,” in which Charlton Heston played the part, or “Moses,” the 1995 TV movie starring
Instead, it was “Life of Brian,” Monty Python’s seriously twisted take on Biblical movies through the story of a hapless would-be messiah and his misguided followers.
“It was the very first film I rented while still trying to get my head wrapped around this,” said Bale in a Q&A that followed a Tuesday evening screening of footage from “Exodus” on the Fox lot.