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Christian Bale's shock rant leaked

Updated 12:41pm on 3 Feb 2009

A sound clip of Christian Bale tearing into a crew member on the set of the new Terminator film has been released on the internet — and it is an absolute shocker.

Dark mood: Christian Bale

The intense actor went nuts at Terminator: Salvation's director of photography for three and a half minutes for interrupting a scene, at one point telling him he was going to “kick his f***ing ass”. He threatened to quit unless the man was fired, yelling: “No, don't just be sorry! Think for one f***ing second! What the f*** are you doing? Are you professional or not?”

The dressing down was given last July, although the victim, DP Shane Hurlbut, doesn't hold a grudge. He said: “This was my second movie with Christian, and it has always been a good experience with him.”

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I stoingly disagree with you Kate. I feel he had justification for going off. If someone walks in front of a multimillion dollar movie and distracts the main star more than once it's disgraceful. We've all had our tantrums, it's only making headlines because it's Christian Bale.

- Max, Sydney, Australia, 10/02/2009 10:05
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Whilst this rant went on too long I dont see what was wrong with this. This person had been inconsiderate before. This is a professional actor with someone messing about in the background. This is just unfortunate for CB to have this leaked. I can imagine other actors, like Cruise are the same & all we hear about other people are rumours in mags, but in this case we have the hard evidence. There will be more to this than meets the eye. I suspect that CB had not had a good day prior to this. Whilst thats no excuse for his behaviour would you not be miffed if someone was ruining your set?

- Cj, London, UK, 07/02/2009 01:00
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What an animal, why does he think it is acceptable to behave in this way. Sounds like another Russell Crowe in the making... if I were the Director I would have called his bluff and let him quit - pig!

- A, berkshire, 04/02/2009 10:09
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Discraceful. No one human should talk to another like Bale did. He just wouldn't let the issue go. I dont care how famous he is, he is an actor doing a job. Its the Director's job to pull someone up on a mistake.

Bale over reacted in this case. He should apologise if he hasn't already. And he should be ashamed of himself.

- Kate, London UK, 03/02/2009 15:49
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