Written by Bill Foley (Coordinator of News and Media Content)
That’s definitely Christian Bale there, the English actor and Oscar winner, but that guy next to him in the shot a second before, wasn’t that a guy in a BC3 @ Cranberry financial accounting class? Research writing? Spanish I? Calculus and analytical geometry?
Hair’s a bit longer. Has those bushy sideburns.
But isn’t that Tyler Beegle?
“That’s me,” said Beegle, a Butler County Community College student who may have a close-up shot as a paid extra in “The Pale Blue Eye” following editing of the Netflix movie expected to be broadcast later in 2022.
Filming in western Pennsylvania ends this month, said Beegle, an Allegheny County resident, BC3 accounting major and 2010 graduate of Seneca Valley High School who grew longer hair and 3-inch sideburns to authenticate his part in a movie whose time period is 1830.
The movie is described by IMDb.com as one that follows a veteran detective who investigates murders, helped by a detail-oriented cadet who would later become a famed author.
The setting for the movie is the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, said Beegle, who portrays a cadet.
“Cadets are starting to be murdered,” Beegle said. “And then you have a detective who is coming in, played by Christian Bale. And he gets the assistance of one of the cadets, who is Edgar Allen Poe, to help solve the mystery of the murders.”
The 29-year-old is scheduled to take only online or remote classes at BC3’s additional location in Cranberry Township this spring and expects to graduate in BC3’s Class of 2022.
He returned to Ross Township in 2020 and enrolled at BC3 after living six years in the West, portraying Japanese anime characters during cosplay conventions in cities from San Francisco to Phoenix.
