At the recent press conference for MICHAEL MANN’S overblown epic gangster movie, PUBLIC ENEMIES, the ever-so-serious CHRISTIAN BALE opened up about his on-screen character, G-Man MELVIN PURVIS. Sounds like he got very involved in his research (not sure we’d go with the ‘HOOVER was brilliant’ stuff though). (Click on the media bar below:

PUBLIC ENEMIES is in theaters now