Before he played the orphan who would become Batman on the big screen, Christian Bale took up foster care as a cause. This week, he got to break ground on Los Angeles-area community to help house foster siblings.
The Welsh-born Bale and other supporters literally put shovels into the earth on Wednesday to begin construction of a 12-home foster care community with a 7,000-square-foot community center in Palmdale, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. The city of Palmdale gave $1.2 million to Together California, the foster care community co-founded by Bale, his wife Sibi Blažić, and Eric Esrailian, producer of “The Promise,” a 2016 film starring Bale.
The Oscar-winning Bale (2010’s “The Fighter”) and Esrailian, a health sciences clinical professor of medicine at UCLA, also contributed to and led a two-year fundraising effort, Together California said in a news release.
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