Actor Christian Bale has broken ground on a project he has envisioned for 16 years – the building of several houses and a community center intended to keep foster care siblings together.
The Oscar-winning actor who played Batman in the “Dark Knight” movie trilogy stood alongside local officials last week in Palmdale, a community about 60 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, as they celebrated the new village’s construction.
Even though he was born in Britain, Bale, 50, has lived in Southern California since the 1990s. Around 2008, he had the idea to build such a community after learning about the huge number of foster children in Los Angeles County, and finding out how many brothers and sisters get separated by the system.
“I was stunned and mad to learn that we have more foster kids here than anywhere else in the country. I was also kicking myself for not knowing that before. So I thought, ‘Well, this is it. Let’s focus on this,'” Bale told The Hollywood Reporter (THR). “My wife and I decided that we were going to do everything we could in our power to change that.”
At first, he thought getting the community built for foster kids
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