Christian Bale lost 63 pounds for his role in the 2004 movie “the Machinist”, then gained 75 in just a few months for “Batman Begins”. Now he’s being all actor-y again and shedding weight for his role as a boxer who gets addicted to hugs drugs in “the Fighter”.
This guy is a real pro. When he takes a part he lives it. That’s why I sent him my script about that guy who punched Perez in the face.
(hq jump = here. source = fame)
Remember Christian Bale? He was in the Batman movies, and Terminator 4? And after that he was in talks to star opposite Johnny Depp in “Public Enemies”? And those talks were successful and he took the part and filmed the movie and it was a really big deal? Well you’d never know that based on the ad campaign, because Bale isn’t in any of the commercials and not on the poster. E! online, is there something you’d like to say?
“Apparently when you have the option of showing Johnny Depp staring off into the middle distance and looking iconic, you don’t need a second actor staring off into the middle distance and looking iconic. Not unless that second person carries the exact same, or better, commercial draw as Johnny Depp.
Christian Bale does not. You may think Bale does. You may want Bale to. You’re wrong.
According to the scale which measures domestic and worldwide actor bankability, Depp is overshadowed only by Will Smith in his ability to get butts in seats. Brad Pitt comes in at No. 3. Bale, who may be a very talented actor, is not so bankable; he is not even in the top 10.”
One of the new commercials even says “Depp. Is. Dillinger.” in three dramatic on-screen cuts, but no mention of Bale. Nothing. At all. How can that be? They still put Cameron Diaz on posters and that fug dipshit hasn’t sold a movie by herself ever. Posters with her are only good if you need something to point at as you tell the ticket guy, “I don’t know what that one is but if you sell me a ticket for it I will punch you in the face.”
It would be easy to imagine that everyone in Hollywood hates Christian Bale now since that tape made him sound like a lunatic. But it would also be easy to imagine a half giraffe, half pig called a "giraffapig". My retarded point being, it’s easy to imagine stuff, but that doesn’t make it real. Radar Online says…
Bale became a hero to cast and crew after his tirade against (director of photography) Hurlbut, who was widely despised, sources tell RadarOnline.com exclusively. "Hurlbut was a condescending (bleep) to everyone," a source told us. His favorite line was "Why don't you go stab yourself in the head, you idiot."
And yesterday director Ron Howard called Howard Stern and Bale came up because Ron Howard’s daughter Bryce plays Bales wife in "Terminator: Salvation", the movie Bale was filming when the tape was made.
RON HOWARD: She told me about when it happened because of course it was really startling, she said wow this was a weird night. They were doing this tense dramatic scene, it was like the most important dramatic scene between them, they play husband and wife, and the DP disrupted it by walking around behind (the camera), which really is a no-no, you know, you’re an actor playing an intense difficult scene, that’s not supposed to happen. And he (Bale) went off. And I listened to the tape, and at the time, you know, he regretted it immediately. Bryce told me this is not his nature, this is not who he is. What shocked her so much, that he had gone off that much, but it’s really, it’s intense on a set … He flipped out, I’m sure he wishes he wouldn’t have gone on that kind of a rant, but, in all honesty, that kind of stuff happens, he’s an artist, he cares about it…
HOWARD STERN: Should the director have stepped in?
RON HOWARD: Well I think the director was trying to step in, and the question is, you know, you hear him trying, and look, they got their shooting done that night, the next day the were back to work, that DP didn’t lose his job, you know, and they made a great movie apparently. I haven’t seen it but Bryce has seen it and thinks it's fantastic.
Wouldn’t it be a surprising twist if the camera pulled back, and we see Ron doing the interview while Bryce sits in the corner with a Miller Lite to her eye to keep down the swelling. Because she still has to work with Bale, who is crazy, and Ron was trying to protect her. And also there’s a dog with really bad diarrhea. People would be all like, wow, that ending sure was surprising.
LA based DJ RevoLucian has made rage danceable by setting Christian Bales on set tirade to a nice little club beat. What’s even more amazing is that he did this shit in like 12 hours. The guys a genius, at least in the category of setting threats to music. No one has brought together music and harassment this well since me in the 7th grade, when I took a dump in the fat kids tuba.
(go here if the player below doesn't work, and please note the difference between a real DJ and a boring lifeless hack like sam ronson)
Movie sets are a magical place. Most of the crew is made up of union lifers in cut off sweatpants rubbing their nuts as they stand 10 feet away from a love scene, and most of the cast got hired based on a series of blowjobs. Or they're big stars, like Christian Bale. He seems delightful. Except in this audio from the set of "Terminator: Salvation", where he says "fuck" 37 times in 3 minutes and 45 seconds, demands the director of photography be fired for walking on the set and at one point has to be restrained from attacking the man. Other than that I mean.
(try here if the audio below doesn't work)
God I hate the weeks leading up to Christmas and Hanukkah. The town essentially shuts down and stuff like this passes for news. The only good side is some slut will inevitably head to Hawaii or Mexico and get naked. Until then, here's the trailer for Terminator 4, an essential continuation of the story that still has much to say about mean robots from the future. And not just any future, a bleak future where the Nevada desert gets 90 inches of rain a night and during the day you need to bundle up beneath multiple leather jackets and fur lined trench coats. In keeping with those idiotic choices, this looks as boring as a Terminator movie starring Batman could ever dare to be. How they made this so dull is really quite amazing. It borders on remarkable. It says the war ends tonight (!) and The End Begins Now, but that’s a lie of course, as part 5 is already underway. I don’t want to ruin the end to part 4 but at the end of part 4…
(go here if you want to know the poorly thought out twist ending to T4)
