Fettermans to appear in Pennsylvania-shot Netflix film starring Christian Bale

John and Gisele Fetterman already have become political celebrities after the high-profile victory in this year’s Pennsylvania Senate race. Their profiles are poised to rise even higher as both will appear in a new Netflix film that premieres later this month.

In a tweet, John Fetterman shared a photo of him and his wife in full costume with movie star Christian Bale. The photo was taken in December 2021 on the set of “The Pale Blue Eye,” a crime drama set in the 19th century and filmed in Western Pennsylvania.

“It me + G + Christian Bale circa 1830,” tweeted Fetterman on Dec. 9.

+ Director Scott Cooper! This is the second time I’ve had the pleasure to work with these incredible guys - First in “Out of The Furnace” and now in “The Pale Blue Eye”

— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) December 9, 2022

In a panel discussion posted online, Bale said that Fetterman has this “fantastic face” and urged director Scott Cooper to include him in the film. The movie is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Princeton grad Louis Bayard and tells the story of detective Augustus Landor (Bale), who forms a close bond with a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling, as they work together to solve a murder.

“So I said to Scott, ‘We’ve got to have him in the tavern,’ ” said Bale of Fetterman. “You gotta have that face. That’s a face that fits in the 1830s. … He is surviving anything.”

Fetterman defeated celebrity surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Senate election, after suffering a stroke in May that caused him to have temporary auditory processing issues, which drew questions about his health.

Though Oz has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work on the long-running “The Dr. Oz Show,” Fetterman might be making strides against his political rival in the entertainment world, too.

His and Gisele’s appearance on “The Pale Blue Eye” isn’t the Fettermans’ first foray into Hollywood.

In the early 2010s when he was Braddock mayor, Fetterman was instrumental in getting much of Cooper’s movie “Out of the Furnace” to be filmed in the borough, said Cooper in the panel discussion.

In a Variety story published in 2013 after “Out of the Furnace” was released, Fetterman promoted the film and said it was a realistic and important portrayal of what life is like in hard-hit former industrial towns in the Rust Belt.

“If the story of a Braddock, and towns like her, is indeed worth telling, there couldn’t be a more eloquent, forceful and honest interpretation than what Mr. Cooper and his three leads have delivered in ‘Out of the Furnace,’ ” Fetterman wrote.

Bale and Cooper seemed to have learned about Western Pennsylvania from the Fettermans and their time in Braddock, which Bale said “the locals say ‘Brad-dawk’ ” during the panel discussion.

“The Pale Blue Eye,” which also stars Robert Duvall and Gillian Anderson, is scheduled to debut in a limited number of theaters Dec. 23 and start streaming on Netflix on Jan. 6, 2023.