Christian Bale has led a tour round the new village in California where he plans to build 12 foster homes, as well as two studio flats to help children transition into independent living, and a 7,000 sq ft community centre.
Work is under way on the project, which has an estimated cost of $22m (£17.5m) and completion date of 2025.
Bale, 50, who is the co-founder of Together California, the organisation steering the development, called the village “something absolutely new, totally transformative and something completely needed.
Bale continued: “We were always having other people coming and living in our house who didn’t have homes, etc. That’s just the guy that he was.”.
Christian Bale was born in Wales and grew up with his father and his mother, circus performer Jenny James, moving to England when he was two.
The family relocated frequently, and Bale has said he had lived in 15 towns by the time he was 15.
“I was stunned and mad to learn that we have more foster kids here than anywhere else in the country. »
