Christian Bale gets very angry on Terminator 4 set

BertyBasset · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 334

Excellent expletive-laden rant from Bale here, as the Director of Photography apparently interrupts an emotional scene that Bale is filming.

Not sure if it's justified or not (the tabloids all make him out as the bad guy of course, but other sources say the DP deserved what he got).

Regardless, it's always fun to hear a big star go a bit mental on set.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/4446413 ... movie.html

metalangel · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 0:39

I have to admit, he comes across as the bad guy as he doesn't let it drop after the guy apologises a dozen times.

(this was also posted in the vast, unexplorable hinterlands of the Bits n Bobs thread, in between the weekly accusations of mod fascism and some nonsense about snow, but yes)

The Count of Six · **Joined:** 23rd Jan, 2009 **Posts:** 145

What a prick. And what's up with his accent?

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:29

I presume he was angry because he was on the Terminator 4 set.

"Fuck am I doing here? Don't you realise I'm the goddamned Batman? Where's my fucking agent?"

4thDimension · **Joined:** 11th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 332

He has a rep of sticking with accents permanently while filming. I've seen him give interviews entirely in his Bruce Wayne voice. Great actor, bit of a prick IRL

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:49

You can't hear the Director of Photography because the microphone feed is from Bale (which is why he sounds so loud).

The DoP is supposed to know what to do and what not to do during a take, and he kept talking back at Bale which is why Bale keeps banging on about it. If the DoP had just shut the hell up and apologised it would be a 30 second MP3 instead of a 4 minute one.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

Regardless of whether the DoP should have pandered to his hissy fit Christian Bale still comes across like a complete fucking bell-end.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I'd be more impressed if the DoP started making "baa"ing noises at him.

Bale is indeed a massive twat.

4thDimension · **Joined:** 11th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 332

I liked "I'm not coming back on this set while you're still hired"
And "You're a nice guy... we are done professionally" Implying that, hey, we could still for drinks!

4thDimension · **Joined:** 11th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 332

and props to DBSnappa for posting the unbleeped MP3

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

GazChap wrote:

The DoP is supposed to know what to do and what not to do during a take, and he kept talking back at Bale which is why Bale keeps banging on about it. If the DoP had just shut the hell up and apologised it would be a 30 second MP3 instead of a 4 minute one.

I read some third-hand reports yesterday from other crew on the set who thought the DP was in the wrong, so perhaps there is more here than meets the eye. Maybe wandering into the shot twice really is an outageously stupid thing to do - it does seem like a pretty dimwitted move on a major Hollywood production. It also appears that the DP of Terminator 4 hasn't been fired.

As for his accent, Bale is famously excellent at accents, and does interviews where he changes accents halfway through for yuks. I've never heard him speak with his native Welsh accent.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Also, people who don't follow me on Twitter might have missed my post yesterday of the awesome Dance Remix Bale Rant.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:11

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

I read some third-hand reports yesterday from other crew on the set who thought the DP was in the wrong, so perhaps there is more here than meets the eye.

I have it on good authority from friends in the industry that any DoP (even those working on low-budget productions, not Hollywood ones) will know the "rules" and will know NOT to walk on to the set during a take.

If he wanted to adjust the lights, he should have waited until after the take and then asked for another take with the new lighting.

Bear in mind that film shoots are often on very tight schedules, and stress runs very high. Bale is also famous for getting very serious about his parts (look at the way he crashed in weight for The Machinist only to bulk straight back up again for Batman Begins) so it stands to reason that he's going to be serious about this one too (even if it is only Terminator 4)

I'm not saying he's completely in the right, but he's quite entitled to chew out a DoP who clearly doesn't know what he's doing. The DoP is probably earning about $10K a week, for that money he should know what to do and what not to do.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

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Daily Mash:

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Quote:

CHRISTIAN BALE'S AMERICAN ACCENT GETS EVEN WORSE

FILM fans were last night given a sneak preview of Christian Bale's worst American accent so far.

A recording from the set of Terminator Stagnation revealed snippets from the actor's latest tour de force of badly mangled syllables.

Bale first inflicted his dreadful accent with the darkly comic American Psycho, while in 3.10 to Yuma he played an Arizona rancher who seemed to have spent a huge amount of time in south London.

But it was his Batman performances, where he switched between two equally appalling accents, that made critics sit up, take notice and ask why the part wasn't given to an American.

Bale is in the vanguard of a new wave of British actors who have taken Hollywood by storm with their astonishingly bad attempts to sound like Americans.

Film critic Tom Booker said: "He's certainly getting worse, there's no question of that. He now sounds like a child playing cowboys and Indians. Marvellous.

"He's definitely as bad as Hugh Laurie, though perhaps still not quite as awful as Eddie Izzard, but he is getting there. And who knows, one day he may even be as bad as Bob Hoskins."

But Booker dismissed the idea of British roles for British Actors, adding: "These accents must be allowed to flourish. They are little works of art. A bit like a someone playing the trumpet really badly."

Meanwhile the recording also revealed that Bale remains a miserable, aggressive prick who is unable to handle the stress of being paid millions of pounds for dressing up and playing pretend.

Edit -- moved Twitter posts to the Twitter thread.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

I wonder if the film will be any good.

It could be.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

Quote:

that made critics sit up, take notice and ask why the part wasn't given to an American.

You take note, not notice. Unless someone's handing you a Notice of Something or Other. Hang on, now I've got that out of my system I can go back and carry on.

Is Hugh Laurie's accent considered that poorly, then?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

I always thought it was a bit rubbish but assumed that I must be wrong because Americans don't seem to have a problem with it.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10173

They also don't have a problem with "could care less" (original joke: fine. Seemingly the entire populace picking it up and running with it seriously and thinkinglessly: LESS FINE).

I'm relatively happy these days to leave them* to their linguistic foibles, but taking something perfectly functional and removing any semblance of sense I can't abide.

* Isn't Daily Mash Britishian? I assumed it was from the name.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 13:31

BikNorton wrote:

They also don't have a problem with "could care less" (original joke: fine. Seemingly the entire populace picking it up and running with it seriously and thinkinglessly: LESS FINE).

I'm relatively happy these days to leave them* to their linguistic foibles, but taking something perfectly functional and removing any semblance of sense I can't abide.

Hang on, don't Americans say it in a sarcastic manner? I'm sure that's been said before, which would explain it.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 13:33

myp wrote:

BikNorton wrote:

They also don't have a problem with "could care less" (original joke: fine. Seemingly the entire populace picking it up and running with it seriously and thinkinglessly: LESS FINE).

I'm relatively happy these days to leave them* to their linguistic foibles, but taking something perfectly functional and removing any semblance of sense I can't abide.

Hang on, don't Americans say it in a sarcastic manner? I'm sure that's been said before, which would explain it.

Blimey, when did they import sarcasm over to the states?

CraigGrannell · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1639

BikNorton wrote:

Is Hugh Laurie's accent considered that poorly, then?

Given that a fair chunk of Americans have no idea that Laurie isn't American, and that Laurie demands multiple takes if he hasn't got the accent exactly right (even when all his co-stars are arguing otherwise), I doubt it. Very few actors can pull off an accent successfully and consistently, but Laurie is someone who can.

Frankly, Lena Headey also does a pretty good job—I wonder how many people who watch The Sarah Connor Chronicles wonder what the fuck is going on when they hear her Huddersfield twang in The Brothers Grimm.

Malc · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 13:43

I too don't have a problem with Bale shouting at the DoP there. It is a moronic thing to do. And to do it twice...

Malc

mrbogus · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 112

CraigGrannell wrote:

BikNorton wrote:

Is Hugh Laurie's accent considered that poorly, then?

Given that a fair chunk of Americans have no idea that Laurie isn't American, and that Laurie demands multiple takes if he hasn't got the accent exactly right (even when all his co-stars are arguing otherwise), I doubt it. Very few actors can pull off an accent successfully and consistently, but Laurie is someone who can.

My Californian girlfriend was a bit shocked when I showed her Laurie in Blackadder.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:09

My wife and I had no idea that Dominic West was British until we saw him pop in A Christmas Carol one day. He even manages a very bad British accent while playing an American, which is an interesting trick.

We also didn't notice that Idris Elba was British, either. Dodgy accents could probably get past me for the most part, but to fool her means an accent must be good.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16639

I can't think of a single instance of an American actor doing a convincing British accent though. I guess it's because we hear a lot more American accents growing up than they do British and also that it's more common for British actors to move to the US than the other way round.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:12

Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zelwegger (sp?) didn't do badly.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:15

myp wrote:

Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zelwegger (sp?) didn't do badly.

Yep. Also Alexis Denisof - but he lived in Britain for a number of years.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Wed Feb 04, 2009 16:20

I get the feeling British actors are made to put on crap British accents in American TV.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

myp wrote:

Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zelwegger (sp?) didn't do badly.

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