Christian Bale Hissy Fit Transcript (NSFW)
CHRISTIAN Bale delivers his address in an American accent, proving that atrors can speak off the cuff and improv is not dead. Scriptwriters, your time is up:
Christian Bale: Am I going to walk around and rip your fucking lights down, in the middle of a scene? Then why the fuck are you walking right through? Ah-da-da-dah, like this in the background. What the fuck is it with you? What don’t you fucking understand? You got any fucking idea about, hey, it’s fucking distracting having somebody walking up behind Bryce in the middle of the fucking scene? Give me a fucking answer! What don’t you get about it?
Shane Hurlbut: I was looking at the light.
Bale: Ohhhhh, goooood for you. And how was it? I hope it was fucking good, because it’s useless now, isn’t it?
Hurlbut: OK.
Bale: Fuck sake man, you’re amateur. McG, you got fucking something to say to this prick?
Joseph ‘McG’ McGinty Nichol: I didn’t see it happen.
Bale: Well, somebody should be fucking watching and keeping an eye on him.
McG: Fair enough.
Bale: It’s the second time that he doesn’t give a fuck about what is going on in front of the camera, all right? I’m trying to fucking do a scene here, and I am going “Why the fuck is Shane walking in there? What is he doing there?” Do you understand my mind is not in the scene if you’re doing that?
Hurlbut: I absolutely apologise. I’m sorry, I did not mean anything by it.
Bale: Stay off the fucking set man. For fucks sake. Alright, let’s go again.
McG: Let’s just take a minute.
Bale: Let’s not take a fucking minute, let’s go again.
Bale: I’m going to fucking kick your fucking ass if you don’t shut up for a second! All right?
Extra: Christian, Christian. It’s cool.
Bale: I’m going to go… Do you want me to fucking go trash your lights? Do you want me to fucking trash ‘em? Then why are you trashing my scene?
Hurlbut: I’m not trying to trash your scene.
Bale: You are trashing my scene!
Hurlbut: Christian, I was only…
Bale: You do it one more fucking time and I ain’t walking on this set if you’re still hired. I’m fucking serious. You’re a nice guy. You’re a nice guy, but that don’t fucking cut it when you’re fucking around like this on set.
Curtains. Wild applause. Shouts of “more”…
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June 19th, 2009 at 10:01 am
We are still talking about this. Man it really amazes me how long people can talk about someone they don’t know yelling at someone else they don’t know. It happened a year ago and was released to the public several moths ago. Get over it. Everyone is judging a man off of a five minute mistake. None of you were there and none of you know him. Everyone loves to judge successful people. People don’t seem to understand the intensity and dedication that goes into method acting. Actors are people who pretend to be someone where as method actors actually become someone. It requires a great deal of endurance and strength to keep that persona up. For someone to knock you out of it would be like if someone blasted a boom box with the volume all the way up beside your ear as you sleep. Until you have worked on a set and with actors no one is in a place to judge. I’ve seen things like this happen on sets before. It’s much more common then anyone realizes. Take the stress load that you feel at a typical job and triple that. The hours are incredibly long and the work is grueling. People snap on sets all the time. On sets though you get so used to it that as soon as someone is done yelling at you you move on. Especially if they stop long enough to realize that they were out of line and apologize. Someone snapped at me on a set one day for something that was pretty trivial. The person realized they were out of line apologized and I forgot it. That’s life on a set. Bale did apologize to Hurlburt and they continued working that day. It was dropped.
I know people who have worked on set with Christian Bale in the past. They have described him as dedicated and intense, but also polite and patient. That he was a gentleman to them and their departments. There is another side to that on set rant that I’m not at liberty to discuss. The recording is taken out of context. It never lets you listen to what happened before the rant began and what happened after it ended. My big question is, why should any of you care? If the guy delivers and does his job then that’s all that should matter to you. He certainly is a damn great talent. Christian Bale has earned critical acclaim and praise from filmmakers, critics, and fans alike. His eerily comedic role in American Psycho made him recognized as an amazing talent. His incredible physical transformation to play the troubled insomniac in The Machinist solidified him as one of the best actors of his generation. He has again and again proved himself in films like Rescue Dawn, 310 To Yuma, The Prestige, Laurel Canyon, Harsh Times, I’m Not There, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight. Even as a child in Steven Spielberg’s Empire Of The Sun he earned praise from critics. He transforms himself psychologically and physically. He starts every job out as a block of marble and carves himself into the character. He is an artist. Every single film that he has done he has brought a 100%. People just like to judge.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Jeez, this man was really angry, wasn’t he? It’s even scarier in the transcript than actually listening to it…because the OP apologized so sincerely and even that wasn’t good enough. Still, I guess full concentration is what makes the man a brilliant actor, so…we all have our bullshit heads on sometimes. I was waiting for him to actually scream “Off with his head!” at some point. Very Jack Nicholson from The Shining.