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Tag: Shane Hurlbut

  • Bale’s apology

    And that’s that.  From TMZ (via /Film):

    “The thing I really want to stress is that I have NO confusion what-so-ever. I was out of order beyond belief. I acted like a punk. I regret that and there is nobody that has heard that tape that is hit harder by it than me. I make no excuses for it, it is inexcusable.

    “In [T2] you will meet Sarah Connor. And she is in an insane asylum—why is she there? Because she is crazy. Now I play John Connor her son, and on the day that all of this happened, the scene that we were doing, I was trying to show a little of that in-the-blood craziness, and it went a little wrong… I took it way too far, and I completely mixed up fact and fiction. I’m half John Connor, I’m half Christian there.

    “I’ve not only talked with [DP Shane Hurlbut], we’ve resolved this completely. That very day we kept working for a number of hours. Listen when I’m saying I’m not coming back on that set if he’s still hired, it’s hot air. I don’t believe that. I have no intention of getting anybody fired.

    “And another thing: a lot of people think that I was a bully to this guy. That’s an insult to Shane. He is a big guy. I couldn’t have bullied that guy if I tried. He’s much bigger than me—he’s an ex-friggin football player.”

  • Christian Bale flips out on the set of ‘Terminator Salvation’

    Christian BaleIt must have bubbled up inside Christian Bale real good and hot for him to lose his shit like this.  TMZ broke the story (hate to link to them, but this is spicy stuff).

    Apparently “Terminator Salvation” D.P. Shane Hurlbut wasn’t being sensitive enough to Bale’s acting process, walking around and being somewhat distracting off camera during a scene between Bale and Bryce Dallas Howard, and Bale went off like a friggin’ fireworks display.

    The best part is when he sounds like he’s literally going to get up and go beat the living hell out of Hurlbut toward the end of the tape.  I can’t really hear what’s going on in the background, but judging from Bale’s reaction, Hurlbut must have been stating his case a little too much for the actor’s taste, or perhaps he was egging him on in some way, I can’t tell.  But jeez, talk about a testy moment.  My guess is the “Shut the f— up, Bruce” comment is aimed at 1st A.D. Bruce Franklin (the toughest job on any film set).  This incident happened just before his London arrest, apparently, but the audio just made it out today.

    After Bale’s recent legal troubles, something like this is bound to add to the gathering snowball that paints him as a hot head, a loose cannon, whatever.  I’ve met him a couple of times, and he’s certainly a serious fellow.  But he’s also got a sense of humor buried in there that is quite hysterical.  Then again, you can always sense he could quite easily be on the verge of snapping like a twig and going atomic on someone’s ass.

    I hope Hurlbut made it out alive.