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Michael Burry, Real-Life Market Genius From The Big Short, Thinks Another Financial Crisis Is Looming

Real-life Michael Burry (left), and Christian Bale (right), who played Burry in the film The Big Short. Photo: Getty Images, Plan B Entertainment If The Big Short, Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book about the 2008 financial crisis and the subject of last month’s Vulture cover story, got you all worked up over the holidays, you’re probably wondering what […]

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Christian Bale on The Big Short and Meeting the Real-Life American Psychos

“Can we get a shot of the napkin?” Adam McKay asked his director of photography, pointing toward the table where an uncharacteristically angry-looking Steve Carell was seated, doodling fiercely. The cocktail napkin in question bore the name of Okada, the glitzy Japanese restaurant in the Wynn Las Vegas where New York hedge-fund manager Steve Eisman first

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