Christian Bale, as you know, is a man with a cool and mellow temprement. From what I know of him, he usually spends his days meditating shirtless on the beach/ getting his tan on… oh no, wait… am I confusing him with Matthew McConaughey? DAMN! Well, one of those two douches got caught on audio ripping someone a new arsehole, in a taping that has more FBombs than an episode of Hell’s Kitchen [Website – Amy Grindhouse].
The recording on everyone’s lips is of Bale going ballistic on the set of ‘Terminator: Salvation’. The tape is actually from a few months back and shows Bale getting mad at the Director of Photography, Shane Hurlbut, after he accidentally walked on the set, thereby ruining a scene. TMZ reports that, “film execs sent the tape to the insurance company that insured the film in case Bale bailed.”
CLICK to listen to the audio of Bale going batshit.
This may well be one of the scariest things I have ever sat through from start to finish (and I’ve actually watched ‘Troy’ in its entirety). I feel like this audio is what a Kanye West CAPS blog would sound like if he took to reading them aloud. Being beaten over the head by Kanyezee’s CAPS key would be preferable to my eardrums being abused by this testosterone induced audio douchery. I think my ears hate me for making them listen to this. If I do not post tomorrow it’ll be because my ears have detached themselves from my head and beaten me to death in my sleep to get their own back.
There is one point that my US blogging buddies do not seem to have picked up on… I was HORRIFIED listening to this. I mean, actually scared that Bale was somehow going to jump out of my PC speakers and rip off my head. But there was one thing that distracted. Did anyone else find it hard to understand some of what he was saying because of his retardedly mangled trans-Atlantic accent? FTW!?! Are you a Brit or American? Dude, pick an accent!
Up until this point, I thought Shia the Beef walking around with a paper bag on his head was the douchiest thing I’d ever seen. Mr Beef, I have been proven wrong!
UPDATE: Click to listen to the audio video below of Christian Bale’s outburst (starts 15 seconds in).
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It was one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever heard. Why didn’t Christian just punch out the director of photography. He may just be all bite. Either way, he’s a coward. There was no fight going on. The receiver of the verbal attack was a meek mouse which makes Christian look like even more of an a-hole!
Oh my lord. That is so hot. I think I want Christian Bale’s kids now. Well, more than I wanted to five minutes ago. I’m going straight to hell.
I can’t stand this son of a bitch, so the worse the punoshment and backlash he gets for this, the better!
I hate to be the lone dissenting voice, but Bale has a point – these guys prepare extremely hard to make their character work, and the golden rule on the set is once the Director calls “action”, nobody moves or makes a sound. It is horribly distracting for the actor, the scene is ruined if he loses his character, and another take costs an enormous amount of money, jacking the budget of the film up.
Frankly, I understand why Bale went bugshit, especially if the DP kept saying he “didn’t understand” – that really is amateur hour. It is one of the first things everyone learns when on any kind of set, film, sound, or music – when the red light goes on, Shut up and hold still.
I worked in post production for twenty years, and have been on a mixing stage with Oliver Stone, who was so moody and insane that he would throw fits over nothing, that made Bale’s look like a bedtime story. He had his crew in tears half the time when everything was going okay, so, to me, this is no big deal.
But that is just me – Oh, and Whoopie Goldberg basically said the same thing on “The View” this morning.
Considering the outburst happened 3 months ago, and it just now got out, ummmmm – the producers smelled a little publicity for their film, maybe? Producers will do anything to get people talking about their film. The producers are the true scumbags of Hollywood.
But I do have to agree – Bale went from regular “no accent” to “New Yawk” to British – I think all of his past characters were going off at the same time.
@ Firecracker – Shane, the guy getting cussed out, sounded like he was shitting his pants, right!?! Thing is, I agree with what Christian said, but I hate the overbearing shouty, douchey way he said it.
@ Emm – ZOMG… me too. See you there
@ MM – I think there was little to no backlash, it’s from November so people are over it. The Director jumped to his defence and all else has already been swept under the rug.
@ KMJ – Thanks for all this info… I had a good read while I should have been working today
The DP sounds like an effing moron, but the tackiness of stopping everyone filming too and behaving like a petulant two year old is what tips the irony in the clip over the edge for Bale. Shouting I can take. Hypocrisy I cannot.
I like your point about the convenient timing. I too now smell a set up!!!
He definitely could have handled it better – quietly take the DP aside for a minute, explain the problem, and move on. Bale was taking up as much time on the set while the $$$ clock kept rolling as the DP was.
You make a solid point.
But, whoever said actors behaved in a logical, civil fashion, lol. It is only in my dreamworld that people, especially the famous ones, behaved like well-adjusted adults. Sigh.
I used to love Billy Crystal – then I worked on “Analyze This” – Crystal was one of the co-producers of the film, so he was at the mix every day, and he was surly, rude, ordered his assistant around like he was a slave – - yuck. And the other star of the film, Robert DeNiro? Total sweetheart – nice to everybody, down to the lowly assistants like me. I would watch him read the phone book. Crystal? No thanks.
They say trust the art, not the artist, but I have a hard time separating the two.
Probably missed a few good films due to that issue, but I think I’ll live.
Or, could always get blind drunk, watch the movie, and have no memory of it. It has been known to happen….
I honestly can’t blame him for blowing up, he’s just trying to get the ****ing scene done right
Ugh… something cracky is going on with the post and it won’t let me edit the text but the rant starts straight away (not 15 secs in like the previous clip).