Talk about split personalities of the bat kind.

In the upcoming movie "Batman Begins," star Christian Bale is taking a different take on the Batman character, going as far as to having a different voice for the caped crusader.

In an interview with Sci-Fi Wire during a break from filming in London, Bale spoke about his approach to the iconic character, and the newly designed suit.

"I just saw it as a way of him being able to channel the clarity of mind that he must have had as a young boy when he first declared that he would get revenge," Bale said. "It's very difficult to maintain that throughout your life. It becomes a memory, and you know it takes a great deal of energy to maintain that sharpness of emotion. So I just felt that everything about him should become different (when he becomes Batman). The look. The voice ... You have to kind of really go for it in every way. And for me that kind of you know involved taking on a slightly beastlike voice, as I hear it."

The new suit helped Bale get into character, he said, as he saw Batman as more of a creature than a human.

"I felt like a panther the first day, you know?" Bale said, referring to the first shooting day he strode onstage in full Batman regalia. "I did feel like some kind of wild animal. I don't know if anybody else was looking at me like that way, (but) it makes you feel ... like that. You want to kind of run and jump at people and beat the crap out of them. And it just gives you this great neck and this physique that just looks intimidating. It's all kind of aggressive. It's all pointing forward. It's very much like a predator. And that was a thrill, doing that."

The film is slated for release next summer.

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