Christian Bale goes ballistic on the set of Terminator: Salvation!

[Scott]

agreed spike. i can attest.

 

[auxt]

I didn't realize it at first, but the film's "director" was there for the whole thing. No control of his own set ...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629334/board/nest/129496810

More than a minute and a half go by (and that's just including the audio clip) before McG even gets involved. And that is only because Bale involves him.

Here's what I got from it. You tell me - Who is in control of this set?

BALE: McG! You got something to say to this *beep* prick????

McG: ::defensively & high pitched:: I didn't see it happen...!

BALE: Well SOMEBODY should be ****ing watching him and keeping an eye on him!

McG: "Fair enough..."

BALE: This is the SECOND time that he doesn't give a **** what is going on in front of the camera!!!

McG: Alright.

BALE: ALRIGHT??! I'm trying to do a *beep* scene here and I'm going 'why the *beep* is Shane walking in there, what is he doin' there?' Do you understand my mind is not in the scene if you're doing that.

BALE: Stay off the ***ing set man. For **** sake! Alright let's go again.

McG: Let's take a minute...

BALE: Let's NOT TAKE A *beep* MINUTE!!! LET'S GO AGAIN! And let's not have YOU *beep* walkin' in!

 

[mims]

yeah, i can't believe "McG" couldn't butt in or do something to handle the situation. After all, I doubt Christian would be doing this with someone like Chris Nolan or Michael Mann. I'm sure it has to do with a lot more than this isolated incident that we're not hearing about.

 

[Samara]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...nt-reveals-stars-father-boosted-sons-ego.html

I think this fits here very well!

 

[Fabulyss]

well, we can look at it from another side, Christian IS a professional, that is why he got so mad, cause the whole scene was ruined and Christian is so into making/acting perfect and maybe he just got into character in that scene and than bam! and someone ruins it.
but then I just don't get how the sound is so good when this tape is made secretly
and why this appeared only now? it all happened way back in summer!

Again, he should have taken it up with the director. It is not an actor's job to keep the crew in line.

 

[eternitygoddess]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...-sons-ego.html

Oh f.u.c.k. that Cheung guy.

Hope he keeps his mouth shut from now on and respect Bale's privacy. Hell yeah he couldn't trust you. I wonder why. You'd trade friendship for $$$.

What a greasy a.s.s.hole.

 

[slow_hands]

I just don't understand how someone can stay that angry for that long?!
he definitely has some anger issues, but that doesn't change the fact that he's still my fav actor.
btw the Bale-out is hilarious

 

[Fabulyss]

greasy a.s.s.hole.

 

[haute femme]

the daily mail article is kind of ridiculous.. comparing him to Batman, and blaming everything on his family moving a lot? Good try trying to make him look crazy, but it isn't working.

 

[Fabulyss]

well, we can look at it from another side, Christian IS a professional, that is why he got so mad, cause the whole scene was ruined and Christian is so into making/acting perfect and maybe he just got into character in that scene and than bam! and someone ruins it.
but then I just don't get how the sound is so good when this tape is made secretly
and why this appeared only now? it all happened way back in summer!

Again, he should have taken it up with the director. It is not an actor's job to keep the crew in line.

 

[saka]

hmm is it strange if I think he is even hotter now :/

 

[Mary-Anne]

 

[MsCornell]

I disagree. It's pretty juvenile to not only get that mad in the first place, but stay that way as he did (it sounded like they had to hold him back from that guy at one point... ridiculous) and even more so, to totally lack restraint and just completely let loose on someone, apparently in front of the whole crew. The sky did not fall and that dude didn't singlehandedly destroy the entire movie; it was a mistake, an accident. It's not like he was whistling and strolling around on camera. No where else would Bale's behavior be acceptable, period. But since he's an artiste and especially because he's Christian Bale, people are falling over themselves trying to excuse it. He acted like a jackass and if he has a little bit of a fallout after this, I suppose he deserves it.

Still, though, I think Scott is right on and I agree with iluvjeisa too-- people expect their all favorite actors/musicians/etc. to be saints, which is not only impossible but quite boring as well. I don't think it's devastating that Bale isn't all peaches and cream, but I really don't get why people think it's funny or perfectly normal to act like he did.

TOTALY agree with that!

 

[MsCornell]

SERIOUSLY. It's like, yeah, but he's making ~art~.

First of all, it's a freaking Terminator movie.
Second of all, no matter what movie it is, nobody deserves to get that kind of abuse. Lets give Bale the benefit of the doubt and say this was at the end of a 12 hour work day. SO WHAT?! The rest of us work 12 hour days without getting paid millions for it. Doesn't give us the right to snap at those around us, especially those who aren't on equal footing. Bale didn't just "snap". He went on a 4 minute tirade. There was plenty of time there to stop, to calm down, to think twice. He didn't. There is just no excuse for that. NONE.

I'm not advocating that Bale should be banned from making movies, because we all make mistakes. I do, however, think that's it's important that behavior like this is not excused. Bale needs to get help, first of all. And second of all, this should serve as a lesson to other divas on the set who think they can walk all over crew. It's one thing to forgive someone who sees the wrongs in his ways and amends his ways. It's totally another to make excuses for someone's animal-like behavior because he's an actor making 'art'.

Yes to that!

 

[joshsimona]

hmm is it strange if I think he is even hotter now :/

me too!
of course it's not strange, just because he made that mistake....his voice sounded a bit like bateman's in american psycho...and although we know what kind of a prt he playes there, i loved him in that movie..and others...

 

[joshsimona]

and i don't think he should be excused for that and the fact it wasa 12hour day etc, it was wrong and a mistake, but let's move on...you cannot judge someone's character based only on that, or you can, but it says more on your character....

 

[Swallowtail]

This is something a friend of mine wrote about the tape, which I agree with from my own theater background:

The people everywhere who have been calling Christian Bale a narcissistic prick for this outburst really don't know very much about the industry, I think. First of all, any DP dumb enough to walk through an actor's line of sight during a take should be fired. Like people don't seem to understand the level of dumb we're talking here. This is like your job is to do lighting effects for a Broadway play and you walk onto the stage in the middle of a performance to check the key light. Like, what the **** planet is this guy living on? Then I look on IMDB and find out he has a ton of experience. (Not experience making good films with talented actors, so I can see why he might know absolutely nothing about how you are supposed to behave with talent as a professional, but come the **** on.) This isn't his first time on set. He SHOULD ****ING KNOW BETTER. (And people presuming that this is somehow an especially scathing dressing down because of the use of **** or the volume are, again, not very familiar with normal behavior in the industry. Everyone b*tches in front of people and everyone says **** every other ****ing word.) Everyone feeling sorry for the guy for being embarrassed needs a little more perspective. He's a ****ing DP. Even the most average DPs working in television -- as compared to on a really massive blockbuster film set -- make $450/hour. Figure these are 10 hour days on average, he's making just under $5,000 a day. With overtime and benefits. And he STILL DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO HIS JOB. Do you think if you made a salary like that yet ****ed up your job in a huge, enormous way that someone would feel SORRY for you if you were embarrassed to be called out on it? It's so crazy. The guy is rich and STUPID. He deserves to be yelled at.​

 

[MulletProof]

^funny how the entire text could easily be about Bale and not the 'DP'.
and not to throw too much personal stuff just to validate whatever point I may have, but I also did theater professionally and that's one of the reasons why I think his behavior is painfully vulgar and mundane for a career that requires diving into one's emotions and knowing how to manipulate them.. though it is quite common to find people in the scene who are so convinced the world spins around them and everyone's just sitting around waiting for them to tell them what they did okay and not.. I just wish they'd get their head out of their.. , and learn to respect their colleagues and own career, and then start to learn how to control their emotions, that's talent.. shouting and cursing?, even a cab driver gets it better.

He deserves to be yelled at.

 

[Kamelot]

I think anyone who's done movies as suppose to theater will have different experience. However, it cost loads of money to interrupt a scene more than ones, but Bale is also known for having issue with verbal or physical violence. I mean his mom and sister called the police on him, among other incidents. I can understand his anger and the language used in the first 2 minutes, but to eviscerate someone's humanity like that was beyond the limit of decency.

apparently this video would not have leaked if one of the producer did not send it to the Studio execs, to protect themselves just in case Bale withdrew from the film and denied legal liability.

 

[Batabid]

it's obvious! he had a character flashback from american psycho. cranapple, anyone?