Snickers ‘You’re not you when you’re hungry’: Christian Bale’s temper

Christian Bale may be a world-class actor but he'll probably be just as well remembered for his HUGE temper tantrum a few years back.

By Eoghan Doherty

Every so often, maybe we’re not all as cheery as we’d usually like to be and we turn into a right big Mr Grumpy-pants.

Maybe we got up out of the wrong side of the bed that morning? Maybe we missed the bus because the driver drove off just as we arrived at the stop?

Or maybe, just maybe, the Director of Photography of the film we’re acting in decided to walk right in our eye-line while we were trying to shoot a scene?

That’s exactly what happened to Christian Bale when he lost the proverbial bap in spectacular fashion while filming a scene for the 2009 film, Terminator Salvation.

Thankfully for us, the wonders of modern technology means that someone was on hand with a recording device and managed to capture the audio of the entire incident.

Have a wee listen here and make sure you’ve got the earphones plugged right in because this is very, VERY NSFW:

There are certain people you don’t mess with because, in spite of never having met them, you may have some sort of pre-conceived notion of them. Christian Bale is one of those people. The DP really should have known better – Bale has been an axe-wielding American Psycho,  he’s slayed dragons in Reign of Fire, he’s ahmm, been a really good magician in Prestige...

The man is flippin’ BATMAN for god’s sake. You do not walk in Batman’s eyeline.

Once you get over the initial confusion of why is Bruce Wayne shouting at someone called Bruce you can sit back and enjoy the clip. Listen out in particular for Bale taking us on a magical mystery tour of accents (American, Australian, posh AND cockney English).

And whatever you do, don’t be fooled at 2 minutes 22 seconds when you think the whole thing is dying down because Bale has saved the best angry tirade for last.

Anyway, you’d be on edge too if you had to work with the cardboard cut-out that is Sam Worthington all day and had a director who was going around making everyone call him McG. Seriously, that’s his name.

Of course, you know you've really made it when Family Guy do a parody of your temper tantrum:

Christian Bale – don’t mess with him.