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JamesG · 02-03-2009, 04:02 AM

Terminator Salvation Producer Defends Bale's 'Rant'
2 February 2009 11:20 PM, PST

An associate producer for the forthcoming Terminator Salvation movie has defended Christian Bale's alleged on-set rant, insisting the actor was a "consummate professional" during filming. A man said to be actor Bale can be heard angrily screaming and using profanity at the movie's director of photography, Shane Hurlbut, for distracting him during shooting by walking into his field of vision.

In the four-minute tirade, Bale reportedly shouts: "I'm trying to do a f**king scene here and I'm going, 'Why the f**k is Shane walking in there? What's he doing there?' Do you understand my mind is not in the scene if you're doing that?"

The man later promises to "kick his f**king ass" before threatening to quit the film unless Hurlbut was fired.

But Bruce Franklin, an assistant director and associate producer on the fourth Terminator film, insists the star was only upset for a short period of time before his "moment" passed.

Franklin tells E! Online, "If you are working in a very intense scene and someone takes you out of your groove... It was the most emotional scene in the movie. And for him to get stopped in the middle of it - he is very intensely involved in his character. He didn't walk around like that all day long. It was just a moment and it passed."

And Franklin is adamant the rant has only been released to slander Bale, who he worked with on the 2000 movie Shaft: "This was my second movie with Christian, and it has always been a good experience with him. He is so dedicated to the craft. I think someone is begging to make some noise (controversy) about this, but I don't think it's fair. The art of acting is not paint by numbers, it's an art form."

The audio clip, allegedly recorded in July 2008, was obtained by TMZ.com, which claims the film's executives sent the tape to their insurance company in case Bale didn't finish filming the movie.

The 35-year-old actor was arrested in July in London - just days after the recording was said to be taken - over accusations he attacked his mother and sister at the city's Dorchester Hotel before the British premiere of The Dark Knight.

-IMDB News

http://www.tmz.com/category/christian-bale/

brownie87 · 02-03-2009, 11:50 AM

I went from liking Christian Bale in movies such as "Newsies", "Empire of the Sun" (which I watched in History class one year), "Shaft" and "American Psycho", to strongly disliking him after seeing what a total self-absorbed jerk he is. At first, I accepted his eccentricity as being a proffessional actor...then I started seeing him during interviews where he seemed peeved when talking about Heath Ledger...and then hearing about him abusing his mother and sister. Now, after hearing his tirade, I am fully convinced that as talented an actor as he is, he is an egocentric piece-of-$%&@. At least the late Heath Ledger, as depressed as he was, was always a gentleman and a good person. Christian is an all-out a$$#@%&. If he ever pulled anything like that with me, I'd friggin' deck him. Who does he think he is?????

robyrob · 02-03-2009, 12:33 PM

he is Batman.

brownie87 · 02-03-2009, 12:44 PM

I was in shock, but not too much. He really shouldn't have acted like that.

TripperFan · 02-03-2009, 12:53 PM

Unfortunately I don't have speakers right now so I don't know what his tirade was about. I can't find a transcript of it either.

Keep it up though and his career will go the way of Val Kilmer's!

brownie87 · 02-03-2009, 02:17 PM

Judging by reports and the audio (unfortunately, I do not know how to post an audio link), Christian totally lost his cool when the director of photography walked onset behind Bryce Dallas Howard while filming a scene to check a light, or something. Christian totally started calling the guy out and calling him a not very nice word referring to the male anatomy and kept right on him threatening to "kick his a$$" and "to walk off the set of the DP was still hired". He started in on the director, McG, who apparently didn't witness the guy walking on the set. He then berated the DP for "not knowing how to work with actors", or something.

I think you can find the complete uncensored audio recording on YouTube, or just go on TMZ.

Anyway, it's really intense and there was no call for him to behave that way. He may be the star of the movie, but these people are getting paid to make sure everything is in place...and just because he's the star of the movie, it doesn't give him any right to think he owns the set.

catlover79 · 02-03-2009, 02:19 PM

Good grief!!!!

TripperFan · 02-03-2009, 02:24 PM

Yep - sounds like he's wanting to screw his career up. He isn't the first actor to think he's God's gift.

Maybe he should speak to some of the ones who've been labelled "difficult to deal with" (i.e. Debra Winger) and see how their careers are no longer being flooded with leading part roles.

I don't find him all that great anyway. Heath stole every scene from him in the last Batman movie without even trying.

*Pleasant Tomorrow* · 02-03-2009, 02:26 PM

lol I started cracking up when I first heard that. What a little whiney bitch.

*Pleasant Tomorrow* · 02-03-2009, 02:57 PM

Here's his rant remix.

If you haven't seen/heard the rant before there's lots of the F words in it, so you've been warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihs...layer_embedded

I seriously laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes and couldn't breath. But...that's just me.

ekkostar · 02-03-2009, 04:49 PM

I wasn't a huge fangirl of him like some women are, but I did find him quite appealing when he was well-dressed in a suit and would watch him just to look

. Unfortunately I now find him much less appealing because he has made these negative comments.

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Originally Posted by TripperFan

Maybe he should speak to some of the ones who've been labelled "difficult to deal with" (i.e. Debra Winger) and see how their careers are no longer being flooded with leading part roles.

I was half-watching the 10:00 hour of Today show this morning and Kathy Lee likened him to a difficult actress that tried to strangle her director on one occasion, was Debra Winger who she was referring to?

MrRetro_08 · 02-03-2009, 05:23 PM

I've heard it on youtube and he seemed pretty pissed off.

TJL · 02-03-2009, 05:29 PM

As much as I love Christian Bale - especially as Batman, I think he should take a break for a while. I know some actors like to keep busy and work all the time, but he's too busy.

TripperFan · 02-03-2009, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TJL

As much as I love Christian Bale - especially as Batman, I think he should take a break for a while. I know some actors like to keep busy and work all the time, but he's too busy.

He keeps this crap up and he'll have plenty of time on his hands!!!

You know that Superbowl ad that had Kevin Federline tossing fries at a fast food joint watching a rap on t.v.? All we'll need to know is Christian's size for his new uniform.

TheHappyBurgerMeister · 02-03-2009, 05:40 PM

I haven't heard the rant online, but I was watching Chelsea Lately last night and they played the rant. What I find kind of strange is he's talking in an American accent when I thought his normal voice is an English accent since he's from the UK. Always when I heard him speak in interviews or what not he talks in an English accent, so if he's being himself when he's ranting why is he speaking like a character? I'm just saying; since it's an AUDIO do we really know it's him.

Not that I really care. I've never been a fan of his, so I could care less whether it's him or not. It was just something I noticed.

02-03-2009, 04:02 AM	#1
JamesG Freakshow Moderator Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 01, 2008 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 57,136	Christian Bale Explodes In A Fit Of Rage On The "Terminator: Salvation" Set Terminator Salvation Producer Defends Bale's 'Rant' 2 February 2009 11:20 PM, PST An associate producer for the forthcoming Terminator Salvation movie has defended Christian Bale's alleged on-set rant, insisting the actor was a "consummate professional" during filming. A man said to be actor Bale can be heard angrily screaming and using profanity at the movie's director of photography, Shane Hurlbut, for distracting him during shooting by walking into his field of vision. In the four-minute tirade, Bale reportedly shouts: "I'm trying to do a fking scene here and I'm going, 'Why the fk is Shane walking in there? What's he doing there?' Do you understand my mind is not in the scene if you're doing that?" The man later promises to "kick his f*king ass" before threatening to quit the film unless Hurlbut was fired. But Bruce Franklin, an assistant director and associate producer on the fourth Terminator* film, insists the star was only upset for a short period of time before his "moment" passed. Franklin tells E! Online, "If you are working in a very intense scene and someone takes you out of your groove... It was the most emotional scene in the movie. And for him to get stopped in the middle of it - he is very intensely involved in his character. He didn't walk around like that all day long. It was just a moment and it passed." And Franklin is adamant the rant has only been released to slander Bale, who he worked with on the 2000 movie Shaft: "This was my second movie with Christian, and it has always been a good experience with him. He is so dedicated to the craft. I think someone is begging to make some noise (controversy) about this, but I don't think it's fair. The art of acting is not paint by numbers, it's an art form." The audio clip, allegedly recorded in July 2008, was obtained by TMZ.com, which claims the film's executives sent the tape to their insurance company in case Bale didn't finish filming the movie. The 35-year-old actor was arrested in July in London - just days after the recording was said to be taken - over accusations he attacked his mother and sister at the city's Dorchester Hotel before the British premiere of The Dark Knight. -IMDB News http://www.tmz.com/category/christian-bale/
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02-03-2009, 11:50 AM	#2
brownie87 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 10, 2008 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 250	Christian Bale...HOLY CRAP!!! I went from liking Christian Bale in movies such as "Newsies", "Empire of the Sun" (which I watched in History class one year), "Shaft" and "American Psycho", to strongly disliking him after seeing what a total self-absorbed jerk he is. At first, I accepted his eccentricity as being a proffessional actor...then I started seeing him during interviews where he seemed peeved when talking about Heath Ledger...and then hearing about him abusing his mother and sister. Now, after hearing his tirade, I am fully convinced that as talented an actor as he is, he is an egocentric piece-of-$%&@. At least the late Heath Ledger, as depressed as he was, was always a gentleman and a good person. Christian is an all-out a$$#@%&. If he ever pulled anything like that with me, I'd friggin' deck him. Who does he think he is?????

02-03-2009, 12:33 PM	#3
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02-03-2009, 12:53 PM	#5
TripperFan In God's Arms Now Forum Star Join Date: Sep 14, 2003 Location: Heartbreak Ridge Posts: 12,086	Unfortunately I don't have speakers right now so I don't know what his tirade was about. I can't find a transcript of it either. Keep it up though and his career will go the way of Val Kilmer's!
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02-03-2009, 02:19 PM	#7
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02-03-2009, 12:44 PM	#4
brownie87 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 10, 2008 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 250	I was in shock, but not too much. He really shouldn't have acted like that.

02-03-2009, 02:17 PM	#6
brownie87 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 10, 2008 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 250	Judging by reports and the audio (unfortunately, I do not know how to post an audio link), Christian totally lost his cool when the director of photography walked onset behind Bryce Dallas Howard while filming a scene to check a light, or something. Christian totally started calling the guy out and calling him a not very nice word referring to the male anatomy and kept right on him threatening to "kick his a$$" and "to walk off the set of the DP was still hired". He started in on the director, McG, who apparently didn't witness the guy walking on the set. He then berated the DP for "not knowing how to work with actors", or something. I think you can find the complete uncensored audio recording on YouTube, or just go on TMZ. Anyway, it's really intense and there was no call for him to behave that way. He may be the star of the movie, but these people are getting paid to make sure everything is in place...and just because he's the star of the movie, it doesn't give him any right to think he owns the set.

02-03-2009, 02:24 PM	#8
TripperFan In God's Arms Now Forum Star Join Date: Sep 14, 2003 Location: Heartbreak Ridge Posts: 12,086	Yep - sounds like he's wanting to screw his career up. He isn't the first actor to think he's God's gift. Maybe he should speak to some of the ones who've been labelled "difficult to deal with" (i.e. Debra Winger) and see how their careers are no longer being flooded with leading part roles. I don't find him all that great anyway. Heath stole every scene from him in the last Batman movie without even trying.

02-03-2009, 02:26 PM	#9
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02-03-2009, 02:57 PM	#10
Pleasant Tomorrow Member Forum Addict Join Date: Feb 19, 2003 Location: New York Posts: 69,525	Here's his rant remix. If you haven't seen/heard the rant before there's lots of the F words in it, so you've been warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihs...layer_embedded I seriously laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes and couldn't breath. But...that's just me.

02-03-2009, 05:23 PM	#12
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02-03-2009, 05:40 PM	#15
TheHappyBurgerMeister Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 23, 2002 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 2,209	I haven't heard the rant online, but I was watching Chelsea Lately last night and they played the rant. What I find kind of strange is he's talking in an American accent when I thought his normal voice is an English accent since he's from the UK. Always when I heard him speak in interviews or what not he talks in an English accent, so if he's being himself when he's ranting why is he speaking like a character? I'm just saying; since it's an AUDIO do we really know it's him. Not that I really care. I've never been a fan of his, so I could care less whether it's him or not. It was just something I noticed.
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