Christian Bale Goes Nuts

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http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/020209_christianbale.mp3

Happened on the set of Terminator IV after a director of photography accidentally ruined a scene by walking onto the set. Bale lost it, screaming, yelling and threatening to quit if the bosses didn't fire the guy.

fecking gold.




Christian Bale: KICK YOUR feckING ASS!

Shane Hurlbut: Christian, Christian –

Bale: I want you off the fecking set you prick!

Shane: Christian, I'm sorry.

Bale: No, don't just be sorry, think for one fecking second. What the feck are you DOING ? Are you professional or not?

Shane: Yes I am.

Bale: Do I fecking walk around and rip down –

Bruce Franklin: Christian, Christian –

Bale: No, shut the feck up Bruce! Do I want - no! No! Don't shut me up.

Franklin: I'm not shutting you up.

Bale: Am I going to walk around and rip your fecking lights down, in the middle of a scene? Then why the feck are you walking right through? Ah da da dah, like this in the background. What the feck is it with you? What don't you fecking understand?

Shane: (inaudible)

Bale: You got any fecking idea about, hey, it's fecking distracting having somebody walking up behind Bryce in the middle of the fecking scene? Give me a fecking answer! What don't you get about it?

Shane: I was looking at the light.

Bale: Ohhhhh, goooood for you. And how was it? I hope it was fecking good, because it's useless now, isn't it?

Shane: Ok.

Bale: feck-sake man, you're amateur. McG, you got fecking something to say to this prick?

McG: I didn't see it happen.

Bale: Well, somebody should be fecking watching and keeping an eye on him.

McG: Fair enough.

Bale: It's the second time that he doesn't give a feck about what is going on in front of the camera, alright? I'm trying to fecking do a scene here, and I am going "Why the feck is Shane walking in there? What is he doing there?" Do you understand my mind is not in the scene if you're doing that?

Shane: I absolutely apologize. I'm sorry, I did not mean anything by it.

Bale: Stay off the fecking set man. For feck-sake. Alright, let's go again.

McG: Let's just take a minute.

Bale: Let's not take a fecking minute, let's go again. And have YOU fecking walking in! Can I have Tom put this on please.

Franklin: Can I have Tom in wardrobe please? Can I have Tom in wardrobe?

Bale: You're unbelievable, you're un-fecking-believable. Number of times you're strolling-a-fecking around in the background. I've never had a DP behave like this. Ehhh…you don't fecking understand what it's like working with actors, that's what that is.

Shane: No, that's –

Bale: That's what that is man, I'm telling you. I'm not asking, I'm telling you. You wouldn't have done that otherwise.

Shane: No, what it is, is looking at the light and making sure, that you are, ugh –

Bale: I'M GOING TO feckING KICK YOUR feckING ASS IF YOU DON'T SHUT FOR A SECOND! ALRIGHT?

Unknowns: Christian, Christian. It's cool.

Bale: I'm going to go…Do you want me to fecking go trash your lights? DO YOU WANT ME TO feckING TRASH YOUR? Then why are you trashing my scene?

Shane: I'm not trying to trash your scene.

Bale: You are trashing my scene!

Shane: Christian, I was only –

Bale: You do it one more fecking time and I ain't walking on this set if you're still hired. I'm fecking serious. You're a nice guy. You're a nice guy, but that don't fecking cut it when you're bullshitting and fecking around like this on set.

McG: Alright, I know, let's, let's — (inaudible) –

Bale: Yeah, you might get it. He doesn't fecking get it.

McG: I got it, I know. I get it. I get it. I know.

Bale: You might. He. Does. Not. Get It.

McG: We made good adjustments. For real, honestly. I get it. Just walk for five seconds.

Bale: No, I don't need any fecking walking. He needs to stop walking.

McG: I get that –

Bale: I ain't the one walking. Let's get Tom and put this back on and let's go again. Seriously man, you and me, we're fecking done professionally. fecking ass.
 
R.Nilsson7 said:
Shit actor. Seems to be a cnut as well.
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I think he's quite good at acting (3:10 to Yuma) but if this is true, coupled with the whole family assault thing when the Dark Knight came out then he does seem to be a cnut.
 
Oranje said:
Shane: I was looking at the light.

Bale: Ohhhhh, goooood for you. And how was it? I hope it was fecking good, because it's useless now, isn't it?

Shane: Ok.
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:lol: Can't listen to the audio atm, but that line sounds humorous!

Gotta agree though, Bale is one hell of an actor in my opinion, but from this and the recent family incident he sounds like he could be a bit of a arse!
 
The lad has problems I think. A girl I worked with in America now runs a bar in New York, which is apparently near where he lives. He comes in a lot when he's in town, and she said he seems a pretty depressive bloke on his best day. I vaguely remember hearing he has a mistrust of pretty much everyone because of his celebrity, and said something like 'I've only got two friends. And I don't see them very often'.

But, aye, he could do with taking a few less arsehole pills by the sounds of things. Cracking actor mind.
 
He's what you call a method actor, lives his life as close to how the character lives as is possible. I think he's a great actor to be honest, dedicates himself to his profession massively. Wasn't the whole family thing about his mum blackmailing him to get money from him?

I like him, he seems sound.
 
bill.s.preston said:
I think he's quite good at acting (3:10 to Yuma) but if this is true, coupled with the whole family assault thing when the Dark Knight came out then he does seem to be a cnut.
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Great actor, i aint defending him cause he probably is an arse but the family assault thing turned out to be his ma, and sister trying to get money out of him and slagging his wife. He shouted at them and they went to the cops, then all charges were dropped.
 
Well, he's an actor who lost 60 pounds for one role, and then gained 90 pounds for the next. I wouldn't wanna get in the way of someone who's so obsessively dedicated to his job.
 
Oranje said:
http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/020209_christianbale.mp3

Happened on the set of Terminator IV after a director of photography accidentally ruined a scene by walking onto the set. Bale lost it, screaming, yelling and threatening to quit if the bosses didn't fire the guy.

fecking gold.




Christian Bale: KICK YOUR feckING ASS!

Shane Hurlbut: Christian, Christian –

Bale: I want you off the fecking set you prick!

Shane: Christian, I'm sorry.

Bale: No, don't just be sorry, think for one fecking second. What the feck are you DOING ? Are you professional or not?

Shane: Yes I am.

Bale: Do I fecking walk around and rip down –

Bruce Franklin: Christian, Christian –

Bale: No, shut the feck up Bruce! Do I want - no! No! Don't shut me up.

Franklin: I'm not shutting you up.

Bale: Am I going to walk around and rip your fecking lights down, in the middle of a scene? Then why the feck are you walking right through? Ah da da dah, like this in the background. What the feck is it with you? What don't you fecking understand?

Shane: (inaudible)

Bale: You got any fecking idea about, hey, it's fecking distracting having somebody walking up behind Bryce in the middle of the fecking scene? Give me a fecking answer! What don't you get about it?

Shane: I was looking at the light.

Bale: Ohhhhh, goooood for you. And how was it? I hope it was fecking good, because it's useless now, isn't it?

Shane: Ok.

Bale: feck-sake man, you're amateur. McG, you got fecking something to say to this prick?

McG: I didn't see it happen.

Bale: Well, somebody should be fecking watching and keeping an eye on him.

McG: Fair enough.

Bale: It's the second time that he doesn't give a feck about what is going on in front of the camera, alright? I'm trying to fecking do a scene here, and I am going "Why the feck is Shane walking in there? What is he doing there?" Do you understand my mind is not in the scene if you're doing that?

Shane: I absolutely apologize. I'm sorry, I did not mean anything by it.

Bale: Stay off the fecking set man. For feck-sake. Alright, let's go again.

McG: Let's just take a minute.

Bale: Let's not take a fecking minute, let's go again. And have YOU fecking walking in! Can I have Tom put this on please.

Franklin: Can I have Tom in wardrobe please? Can I have Tom in wardrobe?

Bale: You're unbelievable, you're un-fecking-believable. Number of times you're strolling-a-fecking around in the background. I've never had a DP behave like this. Ehhh…you don't fecking understand what it's like working with actors, that's what that is.

Shane: No, that's –

Bale: That's what that is man, I'm telling you. I'm not asking, I'm telling you. You wouldn't have done that otherwise.

Shane: No, what it is, is looking at the light and making sure, that you are, ugh –

Bale: I'M GOING TO feckING KICK YOUR feckING ASS IF YOU DON'T SHUT FOR A SECOND! ALRIGHT?

Unknowns: Christian, Christian. It's cool.

Bale: I'm going to go…Do you want me to fecking go trash your lights? DO YOU WANT ME TO feckING TRASH YOUR? Then why are you trashing my scene?

Shane: I'm not trying to trash your scene.

Bale: You are trashing my scene!

Shane: Christian, I was only –

Bale: You do it one more fecking time and I ain't walking on this set if you're still hired. I'm fecking serious. You're a nice guy. You're a nice guy, but that don't fecking cut it when you're bullshitting and fecking around like this on set.

McG: Alright, I know, let's, let's — (inaudible) –

Bale: Yeah, you might get it. He doesn't fecking get it.

McG: I got it, I know. I get it. I get it. I know.

Bale: You might. He. Does. Not. Get It.

McG: We made good adjustments. For real, honestly. I get it. Just walk for five seconds.

Bale: No, I don't need any fecking walking. He needs to stop walking.

McG: I get that –

Bale: I ain't the one walking. Let's get Tom and put this back on and let's go again. Seriously man, you and me, we're fecking done professionally. fecking ass.
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I would have strangled that prick with a length of flex if he fecking spoke to me like that, jumped up little shit your portrayal of batman was fecking shite by the way.

DICKHEAD
 
KanieKaned said:
I would have strangled that prick with a length of flex if he fecking spoke to me like that, jumped up little shit your portrayal of batman was fecking shite by the way.

DICKHEAD
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:lol: Flex-related killings have increased by 19% this year, or so I've heard.
 
He's an actor who I have alot of respect for. Played Batman as he should be played and was the best thing in a movie as flawed as The Machinist, but he just went down in my estimation.

That doesn't cast him in a very good light.
 
Oranje said:
Bale: Am I going to walk around and rip your fecking lights down, in the middle of a scene? Then why the feck are you walking right through? Ah da da dah, like this in the background. What the feck is it with you? What don't you fecking understand?
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That bit made me laugh :lol:
 
KanieKaned said:
I would have strangled that prick with a length of flex if he fecking spoke to me like that, jumped up little shit your portrayal of batman was fecking shite by the way.

DICKHEAD
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Agree, They learn to be good at a profession and get paid ridiculous sums and they think they're fecking God. I really hope he gets his arse kicked one day and yes he really was average in Batman, the joker MADE that movie. He was non existent and unbelievably shit for a so called lead actor.
 
exactly he actually had to tone Batman back a little as the Joker was just soaking up all the good stuff, he was great in the machinist but feck me he's really getting full of himself.
 
Batman made him more famous around the world, but that isn't the role he was acclaimed for. The Machinist, American Psycho, Rescue Dawn, The Prestige, he was absolutely brilliant in these films.

:lol: @ the people who are all wound up and wish him physical harm just because he hurt the feelings of some stage hand. I don't know him all that well either but before Batman he was always a relaxed, easy going guy who hated working out at the gym (something he was forced to do every day pumping up for the role of Batman) and just liked to hang out at the pub. So no, he's not a cnut, or at least didn't used to be one anyway. Perhaps the dramatic changes to his lifestyle and public pressure could be getting to him.
 
Brilliant !

He has gotten rather full of himself with hi newfound fame.

I've heard he's a rather stressed out soul though
 
anything about now said:
Batman made him more famous around the world, but that isn't the role he was acclaimed for. The Machinist, American Psycho, Rescue Dawn, The Prestige, he was absolutely brilliant in these films.

:lol: @ the people who are all wound up and wish him physical harm just because he hurt the feelings of some stage hand. I don't know him all that well either but before Batman he was always a relaxed, easy going guy who hated working out at the gym (something he was forced to do every day pumping up for the role of Batman) and just liked to hang out at the pub. So no, he's not a cnut, or at least didn't used to be one anyway. Perhaps the dramatic changes to his lifestyle and public pressure could be getting to him.
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Yes all the above parts "were" great but they do not give someone the right to be an absolute dick.

Can you honestly say if you were the lighting guy getting all the flack from himthat you would just stand back and say ok he's suffering from pressure and i hear he likes to sit in the pub and just chill so I will let it go.................

Bollox you would you'd twat the cnut.
 
anything about now said:
Batman made him more famous around the world, but that isn't the role he was acclaimed for. The Machinist, American Psycho, Rescue Dawn, The Prestige, he was absolutely brilliant in these films.

:lol: @ the people who are all wound up and wish him physical harm just because he hurt the feelings of some stage hand. I don't know him all that well either but before Batman he was always a relaxed, easy going guy who hated working out at the gym (something he was forced to do every day pumping up for the role of Batman) and just liked to hang out at the pub. So no, he's not a cnut, or at least didn't used to be one anyway. Perhaps the dramatic changes to his lifestyle and public pressure could be getting to him.
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Fair points. I, for one, like a quiet life, and to have to put up with the public and media attention like he does would be my worst nightmare.

The easy response is that 'the money will cushion the blow', but I don't think actors like Bale get into the business for money and fame. They seem like interesting by-products, but I imagine the sheen wears off very, very quickly.
 
The harsh reality is though if you dont like being in the spotlight as such its not anyone elses fault. You chose this career. I myself enjoy being left alone like yourself and I am not a fan of being in the public eye etc, but with being in a band if things were to take off id have to endure whatever it throws at me because I was not forced to do it I chose it as my path.

Bale should shut the feck up and get his head out of his arsehole
 
Well done to the lighting man..sell your story, make some serious money and retire
 
I think he was dead right, feckin jerk walking in front of me! Im going down grafton street right now to punch people for walking in front of me "Get off my set!!!" lol
 
It seems Bale's life is so shit, that he enters the character during the process to such an incredible detail as if he is now that character!

You get the impression his own personality is far less important to him than the roles he plays in films - is it any wonder, when he's fast becoming tagged a "troubled & flawwed individual"?!

He's a great actor though, but maybe he's done far too many complex roles that method acting has led to madness personality!
 
KanieKaned said:
Yes all the above parts "were" great but they do not give someone the right to be an absolute dick.

Can you honestly say if you were the lighting guy getting all the flack from himthat you would just stand back and say ok he's suffering from pressure and i hear he likes to sit in the pub and just chill so I will let it go.................

Bollox you would you'd twat the cnut.
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And as he is much much higher on the food chain than you, could make your live very very hard, profession wise.
 
Who decided to let McG direct the next Terminator movie anyway? We're talking about one of the big movie franchises, with a legacy of one of the great action movies of all time, that really needs a big offering after the shite third film, and the guy they give that task to is a man who nicknames himself 'McG'.

Never, ever trust anyone who gives themselves a nickname, especially if its as crap as 'McG'.
 
I am so relieved reading that. The world needs its eccentric geniuses, and there aren't that many around today. By the beard of Zeus, our rockstars don't drink, don't do drugs and don't smash up their hotel rooms anymore. But in their defence, they haven't earned that, none of them. Therefore Bale's behaviour is a wee bittersweet. I am happy he throws a fit now and again, but it's a bit sad that it isn't a rockstar behaving badly, but an actor.
I wonder how Randy Rhoads or Ronnie James Dio would react if somebody walked up to them while recording in the studio and kicked them in the balls.
 
101 said:
He's British, but perhaps because he's done so many American films that some words have kinda stuck with him.
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I think he once said that if he's doing an american movie he keeps that accent during the whole stage of filming, during his interviews and all that. If you watch some of the interviews he gave whilst filming "Prestige", he had a British accent all the time.
 
:lol: Great rant. I know just how he feels sometimes. They. Just. Don't. fecking. Get. It.

Christian Bale is my new favourite actor.
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
Never, ever trust anyone who gives themselves a nickname, especially if its as crap as 'McG'.
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:lol: Bang on. I once met a bloke who within a couple of minutes off meeting him said, "You should call me nutbag-all my mates do". So I set fire to him and threw him in front of a big lorry.*

*Actually, I smiled half-heartedly, made my excuses and left. All the while thinking "feck, that guy was was a cock-basket".
 
Also, to the people defending the lights guy, just imagine if you were at work trying to type up a report or something and then some spastic came in and sat on your desk and started pushing the delete key.

Then imagine he did it again.
 
To be fair, obviously he's very serious and dedicated to his work, and that's why his films tend to be very good to watch, he's a great actor. And if you have a member of crew walking on ruining the scenes you're giving everything too - and apparently this isn't the first time he's done it, according to that transcript - I'm not surprised he lost it with him. Especially when he tries to defend himself with arguments that he was "just checking the lights". Fat lot of good that is if you're ruining the scene!!!

Even in the midst of the rant, Bale tells him he's a nice guy but a lousy professional, which seems fair enough. Maybe just having a bad day, certainly don't see why this would make him a 'cock' or whatever. Think if you were a builder, and one of your workers walked across the unset concrete, meaning you had to do it again. You'd be pretty annoyed the first time, but it happens. If the same guy did it again, you'd fecking dress him down for it!
 
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