I know Christian Bale said he took full responsibility for his recorded rant that exploded on The Terminator set, but now that he’s on the cover of GQ, it sounds like ‘s taking about fifty percent of the blame. The other half falls to his character, John Connor, who was obviously at fault since almost all the screaming was in an American accent.
Would you have unleashed the Rant as intensely, if at all, had you been playing someone other than John Connor?
Of course not. And it wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t been playing that scene, for Christ’s sake, between John Connor and his wife, which is probably the most intense one in the movie.I’ve been wondering if you’re so Methody that when you kept yelling, What don’t you fucking understand? the question between the lines wasDon’t you fucking understand that by walking in front of the lights, you’re putting the survival of the human race at stake?
[an irritated sigh] I’d definitely say that that guy who was yelling was at least half John Connor, and the rest was Christian Bale.Save for a few British inflections in those four minutes of sustained screaming, the Rant occurred in your Americanized John Connor accent. Did you use that voice off-camera throughout filming?
I do that because I’m just not very good at switching between two voices. If I had the talent to turn it on and off on cue, I would. But I don’t, so I have to maintain. Otherwise I’m aware that I’m “doing an accent” whenever I’m filming, instead of just speaking. Hey, listen, I don’t make any excuses. None of it is excusable. You know, I feel I already said everything about this that needs to be said when I called up the radio station.
Let’s hope this is the end of it so we don’t have to keep listening to Christian Bale justify his anger management issues.
“I’ve been wondering if you’re so Methody that when you kept yelling, What don’t you fucking understand? the question between the lines wasDon’t you fucking understand that by walking in front of the lights, you’re putting the survival of the human race at stake?
[an irritated sigh] I’d definitely say that that guy who was yelling was at least half John Connor, and the rest was Christian Bale.”
LOL
I still would. Is that bad?
Oh for heaven’s sake. Anybody who hasn’t gone bananas on someone’s ass at least once in their lives probably lives in a cloistered nunnery. He swears a lot, but some people do casually, and others never do. I’ve heard rants that involved no profanity but were as angry and heated as his fit.
I’d still hit it.
yeah…i’d hit it until it broke off. seriously.
When this was happening, radaronline had an article about what an asshole the guy was that Bale was yelling at. He (not Bale) apparently acted like a real jerk to the whole set, that’s why no one really cared about the rant. I could be mistaken about where, but I definitely remember reading that at the time.
Off topic, but that beard/moustache/nose combo is so not working for me.
OMG, the things I would do to that man and his John Conner…
“Let’s hope this is the end of it so we don’t have to keep listening to Christian Bale justify his anger management issues.”
Well, YOU don’t have to. You can go and get some life instead of writing such poor notes about some rant that doesn’t mean or prove anything but plain fact that Christian Bale is human. Oh-how-intelligent-and-sarcastic-I-am-to-bash-Christian-Bale-to-make-yourself-feel-better-cause-my-own-life-is-so-pathetic. Save your whining for someone who really cares about it.
To Raven, im not sure you understand …Wendie clearly does have a life and this is part of it… reporting on gossip news IS her job. So if ur going to complain (and you should if you dont like something), probably dont use the term “get some life” while Wnedie is at work and you are most likely commenting on a gossip blog from your couch.
I dunno, that reads to me like he’s attempting an explanation because someone asked him, but not like he’s trying to make excuses.
I have to say, though, that I think he needs to change his beard. I’m all in favour of facial hair, but that shape makes him look really peculiar. Like if Francis Drake had spent a couple of months in prison or something.