United Kingdom, March 3 -- Christian Bale believes everyone has "chaos to them".

The 52-year-old actor stars alongside Jessie Buckley, 36, in Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, in which he plays Frankenstein's monster - a creature he describes as being consumed by "sorrowful loneliness" - and Bale has confessed to relishing the role.

The award-winning star told Extra: "He can't live like this any longer. He's gonna die of loneliness and he needs somebody. He needs some sort of a companion. And so he takes that risk and he'd have been happy with a piece of bread or something that would sit with him and maybe hold his hand occasionally - and instead he gets this absolute insane."

Jessie then quipped: "Croissant!"

Bale continued: "There you...