Christian Bale is an Asshole
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Remember that little story about Christian Bale going berserk on the “Terminator Salvation” photography director for inadvertently walking on the set in the middle of his scene? Well, the audio of the event has made its way online, and it’s even worse than you imagined:
Bale says “I want you off the fucking set, you prick.”
“I’m sorry,” [the director of photography] replies.
“No, don’t just be sorry. Think for one fucking second,” Bale shouts. “What the fuck are you doing? Are you a professional or not?”
“Yes, I am.”
“No, no. Am I gonna fucking rip your lights down in the middle of the scene? What the fuck is it with you? What the fuck don’t you understand? You got any fucking idea about… Hey, it’s fucking distracting having somebody walking up behind Bryce [Dallas Howard] in the middle of the fucking scene. Give me a fucking answer. What don’t you get about it?”
Oh, and that’s just a little taste. It goes on and on for about four minutes, with Bale threatening to quit the movie unless the director of photography is fired. It’s awful. Really, the only way he could seem like more of an asshole is if he ended it by kicking a puppy and telling an orphan with Downs Syndrome to go fuck himself.
Click here to listen to the audio
At the Dark Knight premiere in Japan with his wife Sibi:
46 Comments, Comment or Ping
Jon
It’s kinda funny, he gets so steamed he transitions from his put on American accent into his natural Brit one. In his defense though, this happened a few days after he was arrested and he found out his own family was trying to extort millions of dollars from him. Id get set off at the drop of a hat too.
Feb 3rd, 2009
bionic bunny
i never saw the love in the first place. i think he is a bit of an asshole.
Feb 3rd, 2009
Fett
What a repulsive scumbag. Unfortunately, he will only benefit from this. Remember Paris Hilton’s “debut” video?
Feb 3rd, 2009
Kevin
This little prick should be smacked around. It’s too made that photography director cowed to this scumbag. This piece of shit needs a good ass kicking.
Feb 3rd, 2009
Gambon
Kick this Brit fucker home. Whats up with these guys. They make a few bucks and they think they own the world.
Feb 4th, 2009
Fatbuhdasack
Here’s the deal with this twirpy little british nit wit. He is another Russell Crowe. He basically thinks that his shit doesn’t stink and that because of his batman fame he can act like a complete ass without fear of consequences. He is a total ass douche. Guess what Christian, Val Kilmer was batman too and look what it got him. In a few years you be a fat forgotten fuck stick, and your picture will be in the National Enquirer with your big fat beer gut hanging out. That hot wife of yours will have taken you for all of your money and you won’t be able to get a job parking cars. So have a nice life and go fuck yourself you god damned little jackass.
Feb 4th, 2009
Tim
Wow, I thought it was pretty bad, but it was sort of OK bc I’m really not too surprised he’s like this.
But imagine if a woman did this on a scene, what a big deal would be made about what a B she is.
Or if a black guy did this, his career would be over.
Christian Bale totally overreacted. It’s supposed to be the producer’s job to manage the people anyway, he really shouldn’t have been yelling like that.
But will he continue having a good career? I predict, yea. Even though I didn’t think he was particularly great in Batman, the movies were good enough as a whole to propel his career for at least another 10 years.
Feb 4th, 2009
Bill Stank
Yes folks, he is an asshole. He was like this just after the first Batman. Other actors think he’s an asshole but keep it to themselves since he’s got clout now. The DP was working the shot and it didn’t work, he even apologized and said he was going to make an adjustment… which always happens, you keep tweaking the camera, lighting, dolly movement until you get a great shot… usually by take 6 or 7 it’s squared away, shit happens on sets all the time, the one who’s not professional is Bale. He’s the one that sounds like an amateur with no experience throwing a hissy (yeah, I’m sure the DP was really scared from this little girl throwing a tantrum). Hopefully someone who has Michael Caine’s email will send the audio to him so Caine will think twice being associated with such an immature hack. Bale has worked with legends and great people yet he has learned nothing and acts like a child. Typical Hollywood asshole who yells at employees in way that he never would on the street with “civilians” because he knows he would get his pip squeak ass kicked. What’s worse, the guy’s a hack and unlikeable onscreen – audiences are lukewarm on him and are forced to accept him since his agent and Hollywood hype propel him. Ask anyone outside of LA and has a normal job if they know who Christian Bale is or the films he has been in. His accent sucks too…yuo can always catch a twinge of Brit and when he does do Brit he goes from Cockney to South London to half Welch. He also does that brooding shit in almost every role. And he’s not that great looking, his nose reminds me of Peter Sellers’ melting nose from Pink Panther Strikes Again. Bale, get over it, dude, it was one take in one scene of a Terminator sequel directed by McG.
Feb 5th, 2009
sesaria ragaza
He’s a first-class professional, he can throw a fit– so they say. When did “professional” ever start to mean crude, rude, acting insane? There was a time being professional means mastery of craft AND Self, and extending that aura of control and restraint to one’s relations, fellow crew members, or employees. What’s wrong with “just telling him” to get out of the way, and beginning the sentence with: “I’d appreciate it if……”
Too hard, huh? So much for professionalism.
Feb 5th, 2009
ricky perez
what a fkin ass.. these trash brits think they can do anything. i would have broken his freaking jaw unlike the pussy ass photography director who kept saying “I’m sorry”. fuck the brits
Feb 7th, 2009
daredevyl83
I’m sorry but Christian Bale needs to grow the fuck up. He had no right whatsever to question the director’s professionalism when his rant was anything but professional. You don’t treat people like shit no matter how many Grammys you have won — no exceptions. Bale needs to realize that respect must be earned.
Feb 8th, 2009
Alexis
I don’t give a flying fuc* waht he was going through, nothing gives anyone the right to speak to another human being like that. It makes me sick this prick thinks that because he has money and is “famous” he can go around talking to people like they are wothless. I’ll tell you something this little bitc* is lucky that I wasn’t doing the lighting on that movie,because you can bet I would of been fired that day, but it would of been for a whole different reason then accidently walking into a scene, truth be told that lighting guy deserves a fuc*ing medal for not slapping that shit out of this “actor” Cause I’ll be damned if somebody would talk to me that way and not get their fuc*ing jaw rocked. I wish I could write more but this page is gonna run out soon. And by the way Christian Bale was the worst batman ever Ihope by chane he sees this so he can know that I’m telling him to go FUC* HIMSELF
Feb 12th, 2009
Richard Myers
I don’t understand why people with everything has to act like there world is coming apart. I get up go to work slop in the mud and the cold come home pay what bills i can with the money i have and people like Christian Bale act like this. I wish someone had the power to strip him of is so called actor power and take his money and make him work for a living
Mar 3rd, 2009
Travis Murdock
Someone should slap that asshole with a maxipad or something!
Mar 4th, 2009
andy
His latest tirade was the final straw. I will never watch another movie in which Bale appears. It’s a shame, because there’s a new movie starring Depp (whom I think is one of the greatest actors of our time) that I’d love to see, but I won’t support anything in which the jackass, Bale, “acts”. Travis, I agree with you wholeheartedly…but I think the maxipad should be backed with a lead brick. Anything to shut that MF up!
Mar 8th, 2009
andy
His latest tirade was the final straw. I will never watch another movie in which Bale appears. It’s a shame, because there’s a new movie starring Depp (who I think is one of the greatest actors of our time) that I’d love to see, but I won’t support anything in which the jackass, Bale, “acts”. Travis, I agree with you wholeheartedly…but I think the maxipad should be backed with a lead brick. Anything to shut that MF up!
Mar 8th, 2009
gary morris
Bale is a talentless, overrated, arrogant, ignorant pig of a human being. He has got to where he is through sheer fluke: as an actor he is dull, unispiring and just plain boring. His performance in the Batman films is laughably bad: he growls his lines with all the wit and intelligence of a Tecos trolley boy with a throat infection.
The less we see of this twat the better. LeHts hope this idiot diappears from our screens very soon. He’s a complete and utter pile of shit.
Mar 26th, 2009
gary morris
BTW I am English too, I totally agree that my countrymen become total arseholes when they get a sniff of fame/power. The English are a bunch of stuck up cunts, they look down on Americans, but are happy to wallow in the fame of Hollywood. Bale is a perfect example of that. God help me, I have to live in this Godforsaken country.
Mar 26th, 2009
zerokewl
Honestly, I would have taken whatever came in my hand and jammed it in Bale’s face and crippled him from the movie, and while he was down,
kick him in the nuts and break his legs for behaving like this.
Apr 12th, 2009
jon
Christian Bale was famous well before the Batman movies. The fact that you would only mention him as Batman shows how little you actually know about the guy.
He’s starred in countless films for years. He was fucking awesome in American Psycho and The Machinist, two films that are just amazing.
Being an actor takes an extreme amount of concentration. You have to leave yourself behind and completely submerse yourself in the role you are playing. When a douchebag who gets paid at least $250,000.000 per year to direct the photography doesn’t even know not to walk on scene during a take, how do you expect him to react? He even explained that he never would have reacted that way had it not happened during an incredibly emotional scene that required a lot of intensity on behalf of the actor.
I hear a lot of talk about kicking his ass, and how people would have crippled him if they were there…first off…you sound like just as much of an asshole as him when you say that…and secondly…he’d probably beat the living shit out of your fat internet trolling asses. Get off your ass, away from your computer, and start making movies so you can show us all how someone is supposed to act. Obviously you all know so much about it, and would have reacted in a different way…so SHOW US ALL…otherwise shut your fucking traps ya bunch of ignorant assholes.
Apr 17th, 2009
LESTER DORCHESTER
wow…was that really necessary Chris? Psychologists and psychoanalysts will have a field day with this one, starting with low self esteem displayed by belittling others to bring yourself up. The guy forgets that hes an ACTOR, an ACTOR!! Hes not the friggen pope, hes not some superman, he’s a guy who pretends to be other people. Thats it. Keep it in context Christian.
May 13th, 2009
Jean-Marc
If at least he could act…I thought he was terrible in T4…too serious and self absorbed…i think the DP should have told him to fuck off.
Anyway i did not like the photography in T4 so maybe both of them should have been replaced!
Jul 14th, 2009
Jhon
What a asshole
thats why i dident see the movie….
Jul 23rd, 2009
Nicole
Ok so he is an asshole why the fuck do you all care? Your still paying to see his movies…There are plenty of assholes in the world just get over it!!!
Aug 6th, 2009
uh clem
“Ok so he is an asshole why the fuck do you all care? Your still paying to see his movies…”
Not.
Last flick he was good in was Empire of the Sun. Why? Because photography and direction made him good.
He’s been a loser ever since his head outgrew his talent and losers always think theyre irreplaceable. ehem, not at the box-office, bud.
Sep 6th, 2009
TeeHee
Jon just how far up Bale’s ass is your nose?
Oct 6th, 2009
J
jon is bale I think. Bale is a cry baby.
Jon, just about every living person in the free world (and some in 3rd world shitholes) are on the internet; how small minded are you to believe that everyone who posts is a loser? You do realize that you posted as well?
I like Christian Bale’s movies; aren’t these little tantrums pretty common among Hollywood? I don’t pay for movies anyway so he can cry all he wants.
Oct 17th, 2009
Brials
Personally I think Bale should have been fired for insulting the director of photography! Bale is NOT better than the crew, the crew is what makes the film, NOT the actors. If I were McG, I would have brought him into a production meeting, replace him with a more professional and by god a better actor. I hope his career fails with an enormous thud in the industry. GO AWAY BALE!
Dec 27th, 2009
Brials
to Jon @ april 17, 2009,
you’re an idiot. You insult people for being fat internet losers? haha, yeah, you’re an idiot alright. Not to be rude, but you don’t make ANY kind of sense.
Dec 27th, 2009
Jon
Fuck you all. You all say you would stand up to Bale, but you really wouldn’t. Your all pussies. If he was sitting there yelling at you like that you would have acted just like the DP and said I’m sorry. And if you did stand up you would have gotten your ass beat.
And for those of you who said you won’t watch his movies your stupid. He obviously stars as batman for a reason. And Batman isn’t his only movie he stars in, which mean he actually has talent.
Jun 4th, 2010
Christian
Thanks for standing up for me, Jon. Actually I’d have my agent have my stunt-double fight, because my hands are insured.
Aug 23rd, 2010
caro
if Bale is an asshole,i was an asshole when i had an argument with my colleague(i dislike to hear my colleague when i call and he knows it)
and no one was fired and Bale excused during the filming set
Sep 5th, 2010
EEAP
He was actually very good in american psycho, yet that was pretty damn disrespectful, and not to mention touchy, smoke a joint christian bale
Sep 27th, 2010
Kenny
He’s a GIANT ASS! I really don’t get what people see in this guy (as an actor) in the first place… He has about 2 different facial expressions and that’s about the extent of his “range”. He’s just “Medium”.
Medium looks, Medium, height, Medium talent, he’s just Medium. And I’m sorry, but his films aren’t that great either.
Nov 24th, 2010
mt
Fucking needs his jaw breaking, arrogant twat
Nov 30th, 2010
JDH
Plain and simple…. I would bare butt spank his ass, so fucking hard… you could cook a god damn omelet on it! In a cast iron skillet! O yea, I would have to smack the shit out of the “producer” just for being soft as a fucking 3-week-old grape! Last…. the little “church mouse” who speaks out 2-3 times and kept saying, “ok” “ok’ … he almost got the taste slapped from his mouth! Guess i would just make him flinch.
““ I’m done….
Jan 17th, 2011
Jonisafag
Some of the reactions powerfully rock! Us schmucks who work for a living are no less than CB. Trust me, if I don’t concentrate F* hard while I work, at least as hard as the tantrum thrower, people will die. If he loses his concentration on a multimillion dollar production, they take a minute and do it again. This is beyond all proportion, it is degrading, it is unjust and respectless. And Jon, while you might offer to suck his dick some more to calm his highness down, I would definitely put him down a knotch so quickly, even his grandchildren would still be trembling in 2067. He is a criminal to react like this to someone making a mistake. And Jon, you are even worse, because it is by the grace of spineless jellyfish like yourself, that the human race is constantly fucked over by intimidation and aggression. You make the bed for injustice by dictatorship, corruption etc. It’s no small thing Jon, this is not about some petulant actor, this is about human nature.
And yes I enjoyed TS. But it wasn’t as good as T2.
Feb 26th, 2011
fret
lolling @ the poster above. I can tell that you’re here just to whine your hearts out and rant like the little b**** you are out after finding out Bale won Oscar. Keep being butthurt haters. It looks good on ya.
Mar 24th, 2011
fretter
No, not really fret, I don’t see where getting an oscar says anything about this subject. Maybe you can take you’re macho mouth off of his scrotum long enough to explain. And what pray tell is “lolling@”?
is that something my Labrador does when in heat?
Apr 1st, 2011
shane
lmao i thought that shit was hilarious
Apr 18th, 2011
Knightgarden
Bale is a massive twat! But…. Don’t like some of guys saying all “Brits” are stuck up assholes because we fuckin’ ain’tl! Some of us are but so are a lot of the whole world doesn’t matter where you are from. Us “Brits” can kick fuckin’ ass though.
lol
Sep 26th, 2011
BaleIsADouche
Very early on in the rant, another crew member tries to calm Bale down, and he just screams at him “NO! NO! DON’T SHUT ME UP!” and he proceeds to continue to tear into the DP. That’s enough evidence for me to know that Bale is an asshole. I’ve snapped on occasion, and every time, if someone told me “Dude, calm down!” I’d immediately “catch” myself and immediately apologize for my outburst. I didn’t yell “NO! NO! DON’T SHUT ME UP!” and continue on my rant. That’s what separates this rant from your typical “lost my temper” rant, and seals in my mind that Bale truly is an asshole.
Jan 8th, 2012
Liz
@Jon
FUCK YES. I WOULD stand up to that fuckwad, bitch. And, judging by the 99.99% majority here, so would everyone else. Plus they would beat YOUR fucking ass as well. I would NOT cower in the corner like a pussy, but HE fucking would. I would NOT put up with that fucking shit no matter if I got FIRED for it. NO ONE deserves to take that kind of shit. By the way, is he your fuckbuddy or something? I can’t understand who else other than someone with their nose that far up some fuck’s ass who would defend a piece of shit like this. Fuck off, fuckbuddy.
Jan 12th, 2012
Liz
I can’t wait to hear that his wife is leaving him for spousal abuse. Then we’ll really get to have some fun with this bitch…
Jan 12th, 2012
Liz
@Fret
You must be sucking his dick too, huh? What’s that pay an hour, anyway? Just curious….
Jan 12th, 2012
Liz
@Jon
Oh yeah, one more thing, I NEVER even heard of this fuck BEFORE his pussy rant. OR SINCE. All he’s famous for where it actually counts is BEING A HUGE FUCKING ASSHOLE. So, so much for him being famous. I couldn’t name anything at this point that he’s been either, Oscar or not, and, let’s face it–half the shit that wins—and I do mean SHIT like Bale–sucks ass anyway. It’s just that, a lot of the time–like when they announce the winner & it’s some godawful piece of shit (i.e. Bale), and everyone is like, “WTF???”—the winner is determined by who sucks the Academy members’ dicks the hardest. Guess we all know what that means…
Jan 12th, 2012
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