Drew Starkey Really, Really Doesn’t Want to Talk About American Psycho. He Talked About It Anyway

Some men buy business cards to flex. Drew Starkey apparently just answers GQ Hype’s questions honestly, then immediately regrets it.

Asked point-blank whether he’s stepping into Christian Bale‘s blood-splattered loafers for Luca Guadagnino‘s American Psycho, Starkey went full diplomat: “No comment,” he says, before adding, “The script is amazing, though.”

That is not a no comment. That is a man setting off his own trap.

He clocked it instantly, too. “Fuck!” Starkey says, laughing, before qualifying that he has indeed read it because Guadagnino is his friend, adding that he thinks he’s “read all of his scripts.” Sure, Drew. Totally normal friend behavior, reading the unproduced screenplay for a role every industry publication has already attached your name to.

This isn’t even his first slip. Back in June 2024, months before Guadagnino’s project was public, Starkey told Interview Magazine he was deep in the Bret Easton Ellis novel itself, calling it “brilliant” while noting it’s “quite violent.” A hobbyist? Or a man doing homework?

The role is cursed with pedigree anxiety. Ellis has admitted “a couple of high profile actors, whom I can’t name, have turned it down,” reportedly because, per Ellis, “they don’t want to be in the shoes of Christian Bale.”

Even original director Mary Harron isn’t budging emotionally: “[Christian Bale] is so firmly set in my mind, I can’t imagine anyone else doing it,” she told Dread. Ellis insists the new take will “bear no resemblance” to Harron’s 2000 classic regardless.

So no, Starkey hasn’t confirmed anything. But between the script gushing and the panicked backpedaling, he’s basically doing Bateman’s morning skincare monologue in real time — all vanity, all deflection, zero actual denial.