Temper temper

Christian Bale (Finest actor of his generation TM) has been speaking out (in hushed tones this time) about his four-letter tirade against the Director of Photography on the set of the forthcoming Terminator:Salvation.

He graciously admits "Hey listen, I did it, it's in the public space. I take the consequences for it...I went overboard." Which is mighty big of him.

But despite this public mea culpa, Christian's not happy. This time, it's the sound guy who recorded his sweary tirade that bears the brunt of his methody madness. You see, there's an essential trust that goes on during the making of a movie, where the sound guy says that he's not recording. In fact, he shouldn't even be listening.

The problem is, when you start screaming invective at someone for several minutes, because they happened to break your concentration, it's kind of hard not to listen. I guess the sound guy simply thought Bale's behaviour warranted a little payback.

My advice, would be for the temper throwing tool to invest in a little anger management therapy before he next visits the movie set, and not try to misdirect people's attention at the guy who went public with the story.

In the interview with Total Film, Christian makes it very clear that he's not 'whining' or 'trying to cover up bad behaviour' - it's all about the 'creative trust'. Whatever the hell that is.