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[brvheart]

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

[brvheart]

I forgot to mention that you should listen until close to the end... it's starts to get better after he basically starts swinging punches at the dude.

[LadyGrey]

The media make too big of a deal about this.

He is shooting a film. That means hard work, concentration, long hours, etc. Bale is a committed actor - just look at the weight he lost for his role in The Machinist. He obviously takes is seriously and gets into character. It must be very frustrating to have someone distracting you when you are trying to perform, and when you combine that with the likelihood that he was having a hard day, it doesn't seem too bad to me.

I am not saying it's an acceptable way to behave, just that I won't judge him based on it because I don't know the full story and everyone gets mad sometimes, it just doesn't always get recorded and publicised.

[brvheart]

I'm ok with basically everything up until he goes after him to fight. That's a little stupid.

[LadyGrey]

I'm ok with basically everything up until he goes after him to fight. That's a little stupid.

I didn't hear/see anything about an actual fight. I heard threats, but haven't seen any proof that it amounted to physical violence.

[wsox8]

All I heard was "fuck" a million times

[brvheart]

It's hard to pinpoint because my quicktime player doesn't have time markers, but at about 65-70% of the way through, he says, "I'm gonna kick your f-ing ass" and is clearly running towards him, as his breathing changes. There is also a ton of commotion in the background as I'm sure people are coming in to prevent a melee.

I honestly don't care either way, it's just interesting.

[vbnautilus]

The media make too big of a deal about this.

He is shooting a film. That means hard work, concentration, long hours, etc. Bale is a committed actor - just look at the weight he lost for his role in The Machinist. He obviously takes is seriously and gets into character. It must be very frustrating to have someone distracting you when you are trying to perform, and when you combine that with the likelihood that he was having a hard day, it doesn't seem too bad to me.

I am not saying it's an acceptable way to behave, just that I won't judge him based on it because I don't know the full story and everyone gets mad sometimes, it just doesn't always get recorded and publicised.

I don't know, it sounds pretty bad. It's hard for me to imagine a situation leading to this kind of tirade that doesn't involve a chronic anger problem on his part.

Also, he was arrested recently for allegedly assaulting his mother and sister.

[brvheart]

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.

[Moneyball16]

Remix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48

Bale is badass.

[myenemy]

This just makes me like him more...

[outsider13]

This just makes me like him more...

[Jadaki]

is the fucking man.

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[BigDMcGee]

The media make too big of a deal about this.

He is shooting a film. That means hard work, concentration, long hours, etc. Bale is a committed actor - just look at the weight he lost for his role in The Machinist. He obviously takes is seriously and gets into character. It must be very frustrating to have someone distracting you when you are trying to perform, and when you combine that with the likelihood that he was having a hard day, it doesn't seem too bad to me.

I am not saying it's an acceptable way to behave, just that I won't judge him based on it because I don't know the full story and everyone gets mad sometimes, it just doesn't always get recorded and publicised.

I disagree completely. I don't think you ever treat people beneath you like that, ever. It's abusive. I hate this sort of bully mentality, that allows you to abuse people under you, who can either eat sht and take it, or lose their job. And he's a fcking actor. He's batman. Get the fck over yourself.

[outsider13]

I think the only thing that would have made this better would be hearing a chainsaw starting in the background, a la American Psycho.

[Jadaki]

I disagree completely. I don't think you ever treat people beneath you like that, ever. It's abusive. I hate this sort of bully mentality, that allows you to abuse people under you, who can either eat sht and take it, or lose their job. And he's a fcking actor. He's batman. Get the fck over yourself.

Didn't you see the ESPN clip of Chris Berman flipping out on a guy for doing the same thing basically.

[BigDMcGee]

Didn't you see the ESPN clip of Chris Berman flipping out on a guy for doing the same thing basically.

yeah.. I mean, I think it's funny to watch, but I think berman's an ahole for doing it

[SlapStick]

I disagree completely. I don't think you ever treat people beneath you like that, ever. It's abusive. I hate this sort of bully mentality, that allows you to abuse people under you, who can either eat sht and take it, or lose their job. And he's a fcking actor. He's batman. Get the fck over yourself.

So its not just DDL you just don't empathise with method actors

[Jadaki]

yeah.. I mean, I think it's funny to watch, but I think berman's an ahole for doing it

I was just pointing out that this seems fairly common in this line of work.

[ajs510]

So its not just DDL you just don't empathise with method actors

Now we're getting somewhere.