Actor Christian Bale, who is currently shooting the upcoming movie 'Knight of Cups', recently revealed that he mistook his Australian co-star Teresa Palmer for an actual stripper, according to E! News.

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The 41-year-old actor stars in the Terence Malick movie, along with Palmer, who portrays a stripper.

"We were filming in the strip club, and Teresa Palmer's there in her little silver hotpants and I'm asking her how long she'd been dancing for? Does she enjoy it? What got her into it?" said Bale during an interview with the Evening Standard.

Bale added that he absolutely had no idea Palmer was an actress for a week until he spotted a Billboard with her face on it.

The 'Dark Knight' actor blames Malick for not giving him a 'heads up' on who were the professional actors and who were the real life extras in the movie. Malick is known for his directing style of doing abstract films.

In the movie 'Knight of Cups', Bale plays a man who undergoes an existential crisis after experiencing fame and fortune in Hollywood as a screenwriter.

Teresa Palmer plays a stripper named Karen.

Bale revealed that he never had a copy of the script and the director would just place him in various sets to interact with the other characters.

Malick defined this method of acting as 'torpedoing' and the 'American Hustle' actor would simply arrive and be told to 'deal with it and see what happens'.

However, the other actors knew what would happen except for 'The Prestige' star.

A spontaneous form of acting than most reality shows indeed.

The movie also stars 'Magic Mike' actor Joe Manganiello, 'Black Swan' actress Natalie Portman, Antonio Banderas and Freida Pinto.

Aside from Palmer, several Australian actors have been cast in the movie such as Cate Blanchett, Nicky Whelan and Jason Clarke.

'Knight of Cups' is slated for release in March 2016.

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