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If you haven't seen 'SLC Punk!,' starring Matthew Lillard, then you may not want to read any further -- although, you should really consider adding it to your Netflix queue, poseur -- because the following includes some pretty heavy spoilers.The 1999 comedy-drama follows two punks from Salt Lake City, Stevo (Lillard) and his best friend, 'Heroin' Bob (Michael A. Goorjian). However, the film takes an unexpectedly dark turn when Bob accidentally overdoses on pain medication and alcohol. When Stevo discovers that his best friend is dead, he breaks down, resulting in one of the most heartbreakingly brutal scenes in Lillard's career.'It's the proudest moment of my acting career,' wrote Lillard, during a Reddit AMA. 'We shot that scene before lunch and I had nothing. Everyone went away, I stayed in that little room and worked myself into a frenzy ... When it was time to start after lunch I was ready to loose my shit.' As for Stevo's now infamous line -- 'Only posers die, Bob!' -- that was improved, according to Lillard. 'Everyone behind the monitor was crying,' he wrote. Lillard, who starred alongside George Clooney in Alexander Payne's 'The Descendants,' also commented on the current state of Hollywood, calling himself 'blue collar' and 'replaceable,' writing: For more from Lillard, head over to Reddit.Related on HuffPost:

Based on Joseph Wambaugh's devastating novel, Choirboys is the story of rowdy LA police officers addicted to adrenaline. When they're not on the job, they find increasingly dangerous ways to get their fix. A brutal cop film, released two decades before NPYD Blue and The Shield, which pulls no punches. A dazzling study of power, corruption, and the dark legacy of violence. A must-see.

The White Queen sleeps and will not wake. Black shadows have fallen across her kingdom. The balance between Dark and Light is broken and only the MIRRORMASK can restore it. So Helena, a stranger in a strange land, embarks on an epic quest to find the missing charm before darkness envelops the Dreamworld forever. Written by award-winning fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, MIRRORMASK is a phantasmagorical treat for the eyes and mind, a wondrous blend of live action and CG animation, where strange, magical creatures dwell in a fantasy world of unbridled imagination and scope, as told through the spectacular, cutting-edge visuals of designer/director Dave McKean.

A new picture of Christian Bale emerges in a just-released biography by his former publicist and assistant, Harrison Cheung. Christian Bale: The Inside Story of the Darkest Batman, published May 29 on BenBella, reveals an actor who fought desperately to emerge from the world of independent British cinema into a complex, often incorrigible but above-all, ambitious global superstar. HuffPost Entertainment read the book and found the following 14 details to be of particular interest. Some of these tidbits were previously covered in the media, but others -- like which of his characters he most identifies with -- appear to be new information. Before reading, consider one important note: Cheung once worked for the 'Dark Knight Rises' star and no longer does. The following items are all taken from a book that is written from the former publicist's point of view. Cheung writes in the book that he was never actually paid for his years of service, so their relationship was certainly not uncomplicated. We've reached out to Bale's representative for comment and will update the post as soon as we receive word. 1. Edward Norton, Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt all passed on the role of Patrick Bateman in 'American Psycho.' Though there was a great deal of negative buzz surrounding the picture (which changed directors as well), Bale felt the film could help him break into America. 'I don't want to be a movie star,' Bale told Cheung. 'I want to be an actor. All this talk of career suicide ... I rather like that I'm running contrary to what everyone expects.'But Leonardo DiCaprio wanted the role. Lionsgate issued a press release during Cannes in 1998, announcing that Bale had been replaced. Bale was livid: 'Losing this role is like having a pencil shoved through my brain.' The studio offered him a supporting role, but Bale refused to consider that. DiCaprio eventually bailed after Gloria Steinem urged him not to ta