It’s Wednesday, hump day, and maybe your work week (like mine) is nothing you’d want to win on a game show. But at least you can take some small comfort in not being Tom Cruise. On Monday, Bronson Pinchot revealed Cruise’s wildly homophobic comments on the set of Risky Business, which made the Munchkin-esque control freak (Cruise, not Pinchot) sound repressed and/or crazy. Now American Psycho director Mary Harron reveals that Christian Bale’s portrayal of Patrick Bateman, the movie’s anti-hero, was based on none other than you-know-who:

We talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day [Bale] called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.

So: a few years after Katie Holmes was gazing into the eyes of her Tom Cruise wall poster and thinking, “future father of my children,” Christian Bale was looking at the same man and thinking, “guy with a nail gun.” I’d say Christian Bale wins the psychological insight competition hands down.