The Dark Side of the Dark Knight

Didn't he get in trouble a few months ago for slapping around his mother or was it his wife?

In the Roman social heirarchy actors were near the same level as prostitutes and theives. I can see why.

Didn't he get in trouble a few months ago for slapping around his mother or was it his wife?

In the Roman social heirarchy actors were near the same level as prostitutes and theives. I can see why.

It was his mother and sister.

We all know that it's every celebrities God-given right to hurl abuse at people who don't count. They're all horrible, horrible people.

Didn't he get in trouble a few months ago for slapping around his mother or was it his wife?

In the Roman social heirarchy actors were near the same level as prostitutes and theives. I can see why.

I hate to defend the prick but I don't think he slapped anyone around. In the UK I believe just raising your voice to someone is considered assault.

And as we can hear he's pretty good at verbally asaulting someone.

Yeah, but he's a great actor and he's freaking out because someone is impeding his ability to act effectively. The cinematographer walked in front of Bale's eye line while the scene was being recorded, which is a very unprofessional thing, and which clearly distracted Bale when he was in a zone of sorts. This isn't someone being a dick to a waiter because his eggs are cold.

Clearly the guy is a little bit unbalanced but I kind of see where he is coming from here.

Yes. He had a right to be upset. Being upset and angrily informing someone that they have just ruined your work is something we have all probably done (I know I have). That's a far cry from the verbal abuse Bale was laying on. He rants about professionalism, but then proceeds to disrupt the entire shoot. A simple "Hey a-hole, stay off the f'ing set" in the proper tone would have probably been more effective. But no, threatening to walk off the set, abusing a co-worker and continuing to do so even after everyone has acknowledged the problem, that's much more professional.

He should have just taken a couple bong hits and let it ride.

Yes. He had a right to be upset. Being upset and angrily informing someone that they have just ruined your work is something we have all probably done (I know I have). That's a far cry from the verbal abuse Bale was laying on. He rants about professionalism, but then proceeds to disrupt the entire shoot. A simple "Hey a-hole, stay off the f'ing set" in the proper tone would have probably been more effective. But no, threatening to walk off the set, abusing a co-worker and continuing to do so even after everyone has acknowledged the problem, that's much more professional.

He should have just taken a couple bong hits and let it ride.

Well put.

I enjoyed when he screamed "You're a nice guy! You're a nice guy!"

Suddenly, his performance in American Psycho doesn't seem like so far a reach

Nice post Joe Redskin. He lives by a diffrent set of rules then us. I would be mad if someone screwed up my work as well but to carry on like that in my office would get me a quick trip to HR and then most likely the street.

If you really hate him don't go see the next Batman or any of his movies. That is the best and only way we can show him we don't like his behavior.

Bale definitely took it to a level it need not have gone to. Even McG was afraid to say anything to him. Reminds me of a recent story where a big time Broadway actress stopped acting in the middle of a play and demanded that an audience member taking photos with flash be escorted out.

I wonder if Christian Bale is on steroids. The only people I have ever seen act like that were.

Yeah he over reacted, but I am not going to stop watching the Batman series because of it. I might not watch the Terminator movie, but I will not boycott him altogether. I got 5 bucks that says he will publically apologize anyway.

What gets me more than Bale flipping out, is what kind of incredible P-words are the executives from the movie company that's paying Bale's salary??? When he feels free to act like this, it shows he has no respect for the folks stroking the checks.

It's not like they are making Batman 3 and he holds way more leverage. The suits should've come to the set and went off on him the way he went of the guy who walked on-set. They should've told him to settle the hell down or he'd be carrying his annoying UK-accent ass back across the f-ing pond, minus the multi-million dollar check for the f-ing movie.

They have to have some sort of language in his contract about him causing production delays or walking out of the movie.