Christian Bale Isn’t Angry. WHAT DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
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.





