Christian Bale opens up about the "rant"

Christian Bale is coming clean (sort of) about his on-set vilification of Terminator: Salvation‘s sound guy last year.

From Total Film:

“Hey listen, I did it, it’s in the public space. I take the consequences for it. I’m not hiding from that. I went overboard,” he told Total Film.

“I’m not making any excuses, but there is an essential trust and it’s not a tacit one, which is every sound guy says, ‘We are not only not recording, we are not even listening.’ So, well, there goes that.”

“I do stress though, it’s not in anyway a trust that’s there to cover up bad behaviour. It’s not about that. It’s an essential trust that’s needed for creativity.”

Bale said he didn’t think film fans benefited from hearing what went on behind-the-scenes.

“I just don’t think it’s in anyone’s interest to know that much either. I’m actually someone that’s very anti the whole B-Rolls, DVD extras and stuff like that.

“I understand people are interested, I get that they want to hear about it, but to me I look at it as old school movie magic and with magic you do not reveal your secrets.

“I’m not making any excuses. I’m not whining. I’m not going [puts on silly voice] ‘Oh well, if it hadn’t have been for that!’ But it’s that. It’s a creative trust. It’s not a behavioural trust.”

I agree with himabout the trust factor. If you can’t trust the people around you, you’re not going to do your best work.

The DVD extras? Not so much. I’ve actually had Netflix send me DVD’s just because of the extras. Course, I’m a film geek.