Remember when Bale was arrested last summer for verbally assaulting his mom and sister? And remember how weird that was because it was, like, Christian Bale? The guy always seems so soft-spoken and mellow.
Well, not always! TMZ has obtained audio from the set of the new Terminator flick, allegedly recorded on the same day as that incident between Bale and his mother. And after you give it a listen (NSFW), you’ll understand what his poor mum was so scared about. On the day in question, he got a bit hot under the ol’ collar at one of the little people he was forced to interact with.
Transcript after the jump:
The dramatis personæ are Bale, director McG, and the object of Bale’s ire, cinematographer Shane Hurlbut. (There’s also somebody named Bruce and somebody named Tom.) Hurlbut has just broken Bale’s concentration during a scene, and Bale has some opinions about that.
It sounds like the audio starts in mid-rant, after Bale has already built up a good head of steam. For most of this he’s bellowing at the top of his lungs, and he seems to shift back and forth between 2 or 3 accents, often mid-sentence. Oh, and he drops like 10 f-bombs per minute:
Bale: –kick your f***in’ ass! I want you off the f***in’ set, you prick!
Hurlbut: I’m sorry.
Bale: No, don’t just be sorry! Think for one f***in’ second! What the f*** are you doing? (Editor’s note: The following sentence is what makes this Deceiver-worthy.) Are you professional or not?
Hurlbut: Yes, I am.
Bale: Do I f***in’ walk around and rip down– No, shut the f*** up, Bruce! Do I walk– No! Nnno! Don’t shut me up!
Bruce: I’m not shutting you up.
Bale: Am I gonna walk around and rip your f***in’ lights down? In the middle of a scene? Then why the f*** are you walkin’ right through? “Oh, dah-dah, dah-dah,” like this in the background. What the f*** is it with you? What don’t you f***in’ understand? You got any f***in’ idea about, hey, it’s f***in’ distracting having somebody walkin’ up behind Bryce in the middle of the f***in’ scene? Gimme a f***in’ answer! What don’t you get about it?
Hurlbut: I was looking at the light.
Bale: Ohhhhh, goooood for you! And how was it? I hope it was f***in’ good, because it’s useless now, isn’t it?
Hurlbut: Okay.
Bale: F***’s sake, man, you’re amateur. McG, you have f***in’ somethin’ to say to this prick?
McG: I didn’t see it happen.
Bale: Well, somebody should be f***in’ watchin’ him and keepin’ an eye on him.
McG: Fair enough.
Bale: It’s the second time that he doesn’t give a f***. About what is goin’ on in front of the camera. Alright? I’m tryin’ to f***in’ do a scene here and I’m goin’, “Why the f*** is Shane walkin’ in there? What is he doin’ there?” Do you understand, my mind is not in the scene if you’re doin’ that.
Hurlbut: I absolutely apologize. I’m sorry, I did not mean anything by it.
Bale: Stay off the f***in’ set, man. For f***’s sake. Right, let’s go again. No, let’s not take a f***in’ minute, let’s go again! And let’s not have you f***in’ walkin’ in! Can I have Tom put this on, please?
McG: Tom, wardrobe, please. Can I have Tom, wardrobe?
Bale: You’re unbelievable, man. You’re un-f***in’-believable. Number of times you’re strollin’ a-f***in’-round in the background. I’ve never had a DP behave like this. Ahhhhh, you don’t f***in’ understand what it’s like workin’ with actors, that’s what that is.
Hurlbut: No, that’s not–
Bale: That’s what that is, man, I’m tellin’ you! I’m not askin’, I’m tellin’ you. You wouldn’t have done that otherwise.
Hurlbut: No, what it is, is looking at the light, and making sure that you were–
Bale: [sound of something being knocked over] I’m gonna f***in’ kick your f***in’ ass! If you don’t shut up for a second, alright?
Various voices: Christian, Christian, Christian, Christian, it’s cool, it’s cool.
Bale: I’m gonna go, you want me to f***in’ trash your lights? Do you want me to f***in’ trash ‘em? Then why are you trashin’ my scene?
Hurlbut: I’m not tryin’ to trash–
Bale: You are trashin’ my scene! You do it one more f***in’ time, and I ain’t walkin’ on this set if you’re still hired. I’m f***in’ serious. You’re a nice guy! You’re a nice guy! But that don’t f***in’ cut it when you’re bulls****in’ and f***in’ around like this on set!
McG: I got it, I know, I get it.
Bale: Yeah, you might get it, he doesn’t f***in’ get it! You might. He! Does! Not! Get it!
McG: I know. Good adjustments, okay? For real. Honestly. I get it. Just walk for 5 seconds, just for 5 seconds–
Bale: No, I don’t need any f***in’ walkin’! He needs to stop walkin’!
McG: I get that!
Bale: I ain’t the one walkin’! Let’s get Tom and put this back on, let’s go again. Seriously, man, you and me, we’re f***in’ done professionally. F***in’ ass.
Ladies and gentlemen: Christian Bale, professional! ATTN Lily Tomlin, Alec Baldwin, and Russell Crowe: All is forgiven.
And now I bid you good adjustments, my friends. Good f***in’ adjustments indeed.
Update: The Christian Bale Nervous Breakdown Techno Remix.
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I would like to see Clint Eastwood direct him someday…
The “Dark Knight” meets “American Psycho” meets “The Buddy Rich Tapes.” All Bale needs is a good Hoosier ass-thumping and he’ll be fine.
that’s it … a bunch of f bombs ??? have you seen Goodfella’s ? Apparently in Hollywood the ability to say fu*k makes one a scary person … not to be trifled with …
What the f___ is the Director of Photography doing wandering the set. That’s what the f___ I want to know. He’s suppose to be a f_____ing professional yet he’s wandering around distracting the actors. Of course I’d be pissed off. Wouldn’t you. He’s not some minimum wage burger flipper. He’s the flipping DP, that’s what he is. Doesn’t he f___ing know better.
He acts like he got interrupted during open heart surgery. Imagine him trying to land an airplane in the Hudson…
I guess that sort of makes sense. He’s such an amazing talent – I couldn’t understand why he didn’t rocket to stardom immediately after “American Psycho”. Maybe it’s because he is difficult. But isn’t Russell Crowe difficult too??
Why is this supposed to be a big deal? I have worked with plenty of people who are prone to similar outbursts.
Michael P needs to pass Christian his bong. That jerk needs to chill the f*** out.
what a diva! seems like someone needs to come back down to earth.. wow.
Nothing but f-words? Seriously? That’s the best that this professional actor can come up with, is f-words? I’d have expected a veritable flood of inventive curses I’d never heard, a wonderful tapestry of filth, a Picasso of profanity. I’d have expected terms from animal husbandry, automobile repair, endocrinology, basket-weaving. I was looking for things I’d have to go look up in a dictionary later, something that would make a longshoreman quail. I was waiting to be so floored by the depth and breadth of swearing that I wouldn’t even be offended until later. And instead I get…a bunch of f-bombs. The Vanilla Ice Cream of swearing. I mean, what are we paying this guy for? Seriously, now, is he some kind of cardboard cutout? A mannequin could swear better than that, and it would fill out that suit better, too, Toast-Rack Boy, eat some cheeseburgers or something.
How is this hypocritical? He’s an a**hat to be sure but hypocritical?
It doesn’t matter what he said because he prefficed it with “you’re a nice guy but..”. That totally balances everything he said.
What’s a better rant? This, or kasey kasam? Cause you know how impossible it is to make the transition from an uptempo number to talking about a dog dying! Is don on the phone?
Maybe he’s acting like that because he realized he was on the set of a new “Terminator flick.” Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe another young actor will OD and this one will gross $500 million because of it too .
I remember working with CB on the set of Swing Kids. It struck me that he was wound just a little tight.
I get the feeling that if Christian were fluent in other languages, this outburst would have been even more spectacular as he switches from German to Russian to French to English to Spanish to Mandarin Chinese all with varying local accents. In February, Christian would have locked up audio clip of the year.
It’s kind of sad because when I first read that story last year, I thought it was a trumped-up charge from a couple whiny chicks who wanted to cash in some attention from his Batman success.
Of course, what I’ve never understood about foul-tempered people is that we’re just supposed to accept it . . . “Oh, it’s okay. I’ve just got a bad temper.” Learn some self-control, man. He’d never tolerate being dressed down like that himself.
All it takes is the Director to tell Bale to “SHUT THE F*CK UP AND DO YOUR JOB THAT WE ARE PAYING YOU MILLIONS FOR”.
Listen to the rant without reading the text and you can hear the underlying tension. Bale is wrapped really REALLY REALLY tightly. I think the issue is one of concentration; the DP broke Bale’s and Bale lost it totally. Bale needs a few massages to loosen his wrapping.
Jenn, I think the hypocrisy here is that Bale rips the DP a new one and tells him he’s being unprofessional, when Bale’s entire rant is anything but professional.
And while being ‘tightly wound’ seems like a decent excuse for this, it’s not. No one deserves this kind of treatment, even if he did make a big mistake. All it does is make Bale look like a giant d*ckweed.
I think you are being totally unfair. You realize that he is an in-demand actor right? I mean, he might be working over half the year this year and that can be stressful. Could you imagine working the same job for over 6 months? Next, you’ll want him to do his own stunts or something. Give the man a break. I feel he should be better compensated due to the stress levels of having to work in the business of entertainment.
What? No cougar placenta?
Darn.
Jrod, is all that your subtle way of telling us you’d hit that? He is quite a handsome man and all…
DensityDuck,
An actor doesn’t have to do anything more than repeat words written by others. For the kind of thing you want, you need a writer.
Jrod
Feb 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am
I think you are being totally unfair. You realize that he is an in-demand actor right? I mean, he might be working over half the year this year and that can be stressful. Could you imagine working the same job for over 6 months? Next, you’ll want him to do his own stunts or something. Give the man a break. I feel he should be better compensated due to the stress levels of having to work in the business of entertainment.
That is FUNNY! Imagine having to work for a whole six months AND making mega-dinars to boot.
Sorry about Emma, but I lust her and want to be a manimal with her.
These guys are from England and who gives a s***?
You kind of need to listen to the audio, I guess, when he says, “Are you professional or not?”
I would love to hear little boy Bale shoot his mouth off at some of the people I’ve worked with. The minute he’d start yelling, they’d either cuss him out or knock him out.
I’m with Minnow, no owl feces? I thought these actors were supposed to be creative…
How about having crew members cuss out these spoiled actors when they blow a scene for the 60th time? Or when they bail out of a movie at the last minute, leaving them without work?
Not only does this audio clip reveal that Christian Bale is a nutburger, it also reveals that director McG is a total girlyman. What kind of a monniker is McG anyway? It sounds like the name of a McDonalds hamburger.
Wait a minute. Hold on. My first comment was naive, and ignorant. I see what’s going on here. American Psycho, Batguy, and now Terminator. All this guy has to do is get the bad guy role in the “Arrested Development” movie, THEN he can lobby for the lead in a live action version of “Family Guy” with Angelina Jolie cast as his wife. DON’T YOU SEE PEOPLE! If that happens THE FIFTH SEAL IS BROKEN! Every over-fed, under-sexed internet fanboy will be his slave for ALL ETERNITY! I see what you’re up to Bale! AND I’LL BE WATCHING YOU! Well not you’re movies maybe, but you personally. And everyone says I’M crazy.
Don’t make me break out the Leotard of Justice. Which I look fabulous in by the way.
dude I can understand how annoying it is when someone BREAKS your concentration. I wasn’t there but maybe Shane could’ve been more careful? Or maybe Bale was looking for a fight? Who knows.
@Jrod: So, teachers in inner-city schools have the right to rip students new ones like this, right? They’re working ten months in unfairly stressful and potentially unsafe work environments, paid much, much less, and take the blame for a plethora of things that aren’t their fault (including being able to parent the children the parents won’t, etc). Would it be all right for a teacher to berate a high school student like this because they’re stressed?
Never. It’d never be tolerated. Christian Bale’s whining shouldn’t be either.
I honestly think that Mr. Bale needs to go immediately to his psychiatrist and have his meds checked because its pretty f-ing apparent that they are not f-ing working for him…..f–k!
Why doesn’t Bale have an accent when he’s obviously totally losing his ? When people get mad, their accents usually get thicker. Bale is Welsh and ordinarily has a Welsh accent, so why does he sound like a midwestern American in this recording?
I’m not sayin’ anything, I’m just asking…
It’s always the quiet ones.
Hey, this didn’t take long:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTihsJQHt48
He overreacted; sure. But he’s damn right.
Anni: Spot on.
And another thing: “Dedicated to the craft”?!? Is that a fargin’ joke? “Terminator” does NOT equal “Hamlet”. It’s a movie about ROBOTS and time-travel, honey. It’s not “Death of a Salesman” or “Schindler’s List”. Robots. And time travel. And CGI that goes “paKEW, paKEW”. Throwing a full-on wobbly on that set is comparable to someone on an “X-Men” set, wigging because his shiny lightning-emblazoned boots are too tight. SUCK. IT. UP, Bale, you lispy overpaid douche. Or just suck it. That would work too.
As long as he doesnt put on some Huey Lewis and do the moonwalk he can yell at me all he likes.
Waaah. According to “People” (the magazine, not the…population), Bale is now issuing repeated, abject apologies, which sort of forces me to loathe him an iota less.
He’s still a lispy douche, but now it’s Mountain Spring Fresh, not Low Tide scent.
i have a neighbor with a temper just like CBs. one day he threw a tantrum because i was “making too much noise” and before he even got to the 2nd cuss word, i was in his face threatening to kick his *ss for talking to me like that.
mother f**ker shut up quick and hasn’t bothered me since.
CB just needs someone to put his diva *ss in his place.
but, w/e, i still love batman