Christian Bale’s Terminator rant is easily the best thing to happen to the world in about five years – fact.
But what’s also fact is it’s not universally loved. The sad truth is that some saps can’t take pleasure from a recording of a prick being a prick to a prick. And, inevitably, most of those people are famous.
So far, Whoopi Goldberg and Terry Crews have stood up for Christian Bale, building hopes that there’ll soon be an all-star charity concert to raise awareness of the rights of unbearably dickish actors with indeterminate accents so. Fingers crossed it’s called AH-DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH-Aid.
Look, we know it might cause unimaginable harm to his career as an actor, but we never want this Christian Bale rant stuff to end. Really, we don’t.
It’s so perfect that we want it to follow him everywhere for the rest of his life. We want Batman 3 to be about Christian Bale being driven into geographically nonspecific madness when an Alfred The Butler keeps trashing his scene and walking about ah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah like this even though he’s a nice guy.
When Christian Bale dies, we want his Oscars ‘In Memorium’ photo to be accompanied by the sound of him shrieking “DO NOT SHUT ME UP! NO! NO!” In short, we are in love with Christian Bale’s Terminator rant and we want to marry it.
But that’s going to be an uphill struggle, not only because getting married to a recording of Christian Bale’s abusive voice is both unlawful and probably a sign of a deep psychiatric disorder, but also because several people are doing their best to brush Christian Bale’s obviously dickish behaviour under the carpet. Yesterday a Terminator Salvation assistant director called Christian Bale’s rant a ‘non-event’, and now other celebrities are leaping on the bandwagon as well.
First came Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi can totally relate to Christian Bale’s predicament, partly because of the time she got so angry on the set of Star Trek that she ended up biting Worf on the forehead, and secondly because her day-job involves sitting on a table with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a job which would leave anyone teetering on the edge of a violent meltdown. On The View, Whoopi said:
?We don't know if this (incident happened) at the end of the day, we don't know how many hours (he had) been working. It's tough. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I too have gone off on people, because if you're a professional, you know what you're not supposed to do.?
And then Terry Crews, who is apparently an actor, decided to step in for Christian Bale as well, saying:
?I'd get mad too if I was the number one star in the world and people started to mess with me. He is a class act. He is one of the greatest actors ever. You can catch anyone on a bad day.?
Where we go from here is anybody’s guess. Although it looks like the movie world is already starting to rally around Christian Bale, there are also murmurs that his career could be badly affected by his outburst.
All we do know is that Christian Bale and Shane Hurlbut – the man on the receiving end of his tantrum – are through, professionally. Which is a real shame – as well as Terminator Salvation, Bale and Hurlbut had previously worked together on the Samuel L Jackson Shaft movie, meaning that Hurlbut’s career in the spectacularly badly thought-out remake/sequel business is all but over.
Mithaearon says
Even the director of The Wrestler is getting in on the support:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7871743.stm
ann says
Pleeeease…
The number one actor in the world? A professional? Abad day?
He’s an actor because other people make him an actor: fans, directors, writers and yes even lowly directors of photography. Without these people he wouldn’t be able to make a living as an actor. As for being a professional..
Professionals don;t behave this way. I work with nurses and doctors who will pull 12hrs/14hrs and in extreme cases 16hr shifts and still manage to be kind and polite to their patients and the staff they work with. As for having a bad day, we ALL have bad days Stop using that as an excuse! News flash Bale: you’re not curing cancer or hunger or working for world peace. You don’t really count. Ask yourself Mr.Bale, have you done anything in your pathetic, self-serving, egotistical life to make the world a better place? And making movies don’t count! I know you think it does, but it doesn’t. NO? Didn’t think so.
Shooty* says
Michael Winner was on Radio 4 this morning, totally supporting Bale. He also revealed that Burt Lancaster tried to kill him (Winner) twice, which was met with silence by the program hosts, and presumably more people than just me screaming “Epic fail, Lancaster, you tit!” at the radio.
Yes, I listen to Radio 4. Chris Moyles lost me as a listener when he started sending Aled out to find the lost listeners, and it became apparent how far up his own arse he was. I can’t hack Radio 2 as listening to Sarah Kennedy gradually slide further and further into senile dementia is painful.
Shooty* says
Keifer Sutherland on Radio 1 the other day rocked, though, it had to be said. Gordon Brown was being interviewed on R4 and was so incredibly boring, I switched to radio 1, and got a really good interview with Jack Bauer! Result!
For the record, I would have turned straight back to Radio 4 had I encountered any of the following: Coldplay, Hoosiers, Pidgeon Detectives, Wombats, Kooks.
green says
People that usually condone such behavior do it themselves and find nothing wrong with it.
carmen says
no matter who you, are you need to treat others with respect & kindness. if you’re having a bad day, or moment, or you’re outright frustrated: take deep breaths, take a walk, drink some coffee, but you don’t go off on someone in that way. would he want someone going off like that with him? his wife? his kids? his parents? his siblings? I don’t think so.
Mark says
Ha Ha Ha Haaaa!!!! Marry his rant??? ROFLMFAO!!!! This has been the best posting about the dickhead yet. I love it!
Wonder why we haven’t heard from dickhead himself? Hmmmm…hoping Hollywood, the maker of societies, will jump in and save him with the media spin machine on Full Cycle?
wallywish says
Give me a break some of you people. Have you ever been an actor. Actors and doctors, not the same thing. An actor has to become someone else, that’s what makes them so good. He had a bad day, and I feel I liked to kick the camera guys ass for him. Have you ever worked on a movie set. Man you walk on any set by accident, you are fired on the spot. If that had been an extra, Wo Betide…so what gave that camera guy the right, to walk on such an INTENSE seen. He should have known better.
Paul says
I found a clip that has Christian Bale shouting at Gary Busey and Mr. T trying to calm the situation.
Gary Busey is ridiculously funny in it.
Thought you might like it, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEq5FXvjpXo
LOL
coffee says
I imagine Bale’s under a lot of pressure, i honestly can’t blame him for blowing up
BR says
If you were on the receiving end , you would be saying the same?
wallywish says
Listen I wouldn’t be that dumb. How can the director of the camera not know that the scene was rolling, have you ever been on a movie set, it is usually quite obvious a scene is rolling. What was he asleep?
sarah says
I want to marry your blog. Your posts are fucking hilarious! & the ‘Ah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah like this” is definitely the best part of the whole thing.
Krystal says
If he can’t handle the pressure of his profession, then he needs to get a new one! I never knew he was such a prick. It makes me think twice about watching him on the big screen.
I have been on a movie set, and there is always another take. To be honest this Terminator movie sucked. The script was horrible, acting was horrible, and the overall quality was far below par.