It's here that
steel worker Russell Baze (Bale) solemnly toils away at the mill, while having a constant reminder that the place that pays his bills also left his father slowly and painfully dying of cancer.
Not exact matches
It's not just the natural chemistry he shares with on - screen brother Casey Affleck, but the unfussy ease with which Bale embodies the Job - like figure of
Russell Baze, a blue - collar mill
worker suffering day - to - day realities in decaying Appalachia
steel country.
Christian Bale plays
Russell Baze, a
steel mill
worker in Braddock, Pa. whose brother, Rodney (Casey Affleck), is a troubled Iraq war veteran.
The two live in the Rust Belt, with
Russell as a
steel mill
worker and Rodney as a veteran who has lost his way.